Solutions

Continuous improvement & innovation

How do I improve my organisations' capability and capacity to innovate?

Successful innovative companies are characterised by a distinct culture of 'doing better' and 'delighting customers'. A structured 'whole of company' approach can yield good results but requires the necessary 'Top management impramtur through to 'tools and disciplines' to ensure sustained performance. seeking ideas from many sources'.

Our self-test and benchmarking against the world's leading companies can quickly identify the key factors that matter and a gap analysis shared by senior team. We help set up and manage a "market led" innovation discipline with clear roles and decision making process. Using our 'Innovation toolkit', driven by a systematic assessment of market forces and opportunities and 'online co-creation' methods, capability is built and projects focused on greatest opportunity.

How can I drive top line growth from new products and services? How can I differentiate?

The most successful innovation is achieved through collaboration. Many minds applied to generating many ideas - ideas that are anchored in reality and will appeal to the end user. Co-creation is a powerful means of driving such innovation with 'Co-creation though online communities' identified as the number one technology trend to watch. Co-creation can deliver customer generated ideas for new products and services, improved customer experience or channel management by tappng into front line ideas or engage suppliers for how to innovate up and down the value chain.

GSG, in partnership with Promise Corporation in the UK, has access to the world's leading co-creation online communities platform. This brings 'communities of interest' - consumer or front line staff or suppliers - together online to innovate better ways togther. We set up the community and manage the discussions with ideas screened against 3 criteria:

  1. Does it meet a consumer need or create a need?
  2. Is it commercially viable?
  3. Can the organisation deliver?
Our Reason-Imagination-Reason approach ensures teams rapidly assess, prioritise and focus commercial activities on "best bets".

What do I need to do to improve the effectiveness of my consumer 'touch points' to maximise customer value?

We know great brands are created by delivering positive, consistent and relevant customer experiences. Designing and delivering a compelling customer experience comes down to understanding what matters to the customer, the key drivers of satisfaction, and how to effectively structure operations to consistently deliver to ensure effective customer retention and acquisition. Too often the customer or front line service staff are left out of this process.

Our core focus is to bring an 'outside in' perspective and tap into the knowledge and rich ideas often uptapped at the front line to identify alignment or gaps between what is promised by brand and the 'moments of truth' experienced by customers. Our co-creation methodology ensures the customer and frontline staff create their ideal experience. We work with management to evaluate the cost/benefit of ideas and package these into an overall change program with actionable and measurable outcomes.

  • Clarity of direction
  • Ability to sense market shift
  • Continuous improvement & innovate
  • New growth initiatives
  • Agility of the organisation
  • Impact of execution
Organisations that sustain growth possess six core characteristics and a strongly informed connection and understanding of their customer