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We unlock high-impact value from a complex world, so you can claim your organization's biggest opportunities. 

Let’s Do Bigger Things
CHALLANGE & BELIEF

Today’s New Mandate: Do Bigger Things

The simple, incremental wins of the past are no longer enough. This volatile time rewards leaders who can successfully do bigger things — those who deliver value with speed, originality, and sophistication in a world empowered by new tools, technologies, and partners. As thought leaders who have pioneered powerful system innovation practices, we can help you claim bigger opportunities from a complex world.

This is a period of exceptional change and creative opportunity. New opportunities are emerging with unprecedented speed and are driving disruptive changes that are both exciting and threatening. The volatility and complexity that defines this era is not a barrier to success — it is a powerful new frontier.

“The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short, but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.”

Ian Goldin & Chris Kutarna, Age of Discovery

Our Services

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Discovery

Assess Your Innovation Landscape

We collaboratively assess and map your organization’s entire innovation landscape. See a big picture view of your creative opportunities and limitations. Untangle complexity to gain the strategic clarity needed for bold organizational action.

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Strategy

Envision Bold Strategies

DO BIGGER THINGS. Together we imagine big picture possibilitiesbeyond the current operating model. We design sophisticated solutions that enable you to claim new organizational space

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Projects

Accelerate Crucial Initiatives

Unblock and empower critical, high-stakes projects. We draw on years of hands-on experience with complex innovation to guide your teams and design more ambitious solutions. Drive sophisticated ideas forward with speed and flexibility

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Transformation

Design a Truly Agile Enterprise

Transform your organization so that creative action becomes a core business capability. Manage a dynamic portfolio of fast-moving, high-impact ideas. We build the organizational muscle and adaptive culture needed for repeated cross-enterprise innovation

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Orchestration

Become a Leader on Hard Challenges

Step back and claim the role of a strategic orchestrator. Collaboratively develop a shared big picture view of your complex challenge. Empower sophisticated investment choices, filling gaps and removing barriers to deliver high-impact value that others can’t. 

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INNOVATION THOUGHT LEADERSHIP

The Book: Do Bigger Things 

Cover of the book titled "Do Bigger Things" by Dan McClure and Jennifer Wilde, with a foreword by Jim Highsmith. The cover is yellow with black and white text, and features illustrations of molecular structures. The image also has the text "Amazon Top New Release" and a logo of Fast Company.

Today’s world is defined by industry disruption, technological volatility, and pressing global challenges. It is an era of exceptional opportunity for those that can pursue powerful ideas. Yet, too many leaders are trapped by simple innovation practices that only deliver incremental results. 

Do Bigger Things  introduces a powerful alternative: the ability to bring together people, organizations, and technology in Ecosystem Innovations that take advantage of a complex world. Drawing on real-world stories—from global corporations to grassroots ventures—this book provides the big-picture mindset and step-by-step guide you need to design more powerful solutions, break through innovation ceilings, and achieve truly game-changing endeavors. 

  • “Playbook for mobilizing ecosystem innovation to build a better future.”

    Richard Florida - The Rise of the Creative Class

  • “Inspires us to dream bigger and pursue audacious opportunities.”

    BARRY O’REILLY, New York Times best-selling author of Unlearn  

  • “Required reading for anyone shaping powerful solutions.”

    MARK JOHNSON, cofounder of Innosight and author of Lead from the Future

NEXT STEP

Want to collaborate on doing bigger things?

We help leaders turn complex change into powerful opportunity. Let’s start a conversation about your bold ambitions.