INNOVATION ECOSYSTEM SERVICES
From bold ideas to real traction — we help innovators build what works.
Whether you’re launching a venture, running an accelerator, or managing an innovation program, we provide the clarity, structure, and hands-on support to turn potential into progress. Our Innovation Ecosystem Services are designed to help founders, teams, and funders navigate the full journey from idea to execution — and beyond.
We provide deep, end-to-end support across critical areas of innovation
Ideation and Systems-Thinking Workshop
Brainstorming sessions with the goal of defining the problems and ensuring the you are solving the RIGHT problem with the biggest impact identified by a large number of people.
Design Sprints
A rapid five-phase process to quickly validate ideas in order to reduce risk when bringing a new idea to life.
Current State Assessment
Get a clear understanding of your teams strengths and weaknesses in order to identify gaps between where you are and the value to be delivered.
Innovation Bootcamps
Rapidly identify and advance new business concepts through our custom-built innovation training that provides teams with the frameworks, skills, and mentorship they need to succeed.
We provide deep, end-to-end support across critical areas of innovation
Market & Industry Assessment
Understand the size of the need and demand for the value to be delivered through our market research & intelligence services.
Customer Discovery
Identify potential customers and figure out what their pain-points are; how best they would like those needs met; what sub-segment of customers feel and understand the pain the most.
Competitive Analysis
Understand the products, services and sales tactics, strengths and weaknesses of your competitors to define your competitive edge that delivers the most impact.
Value Proposition Mapping
Differentiate your company and/or its specific product or service in the marketplace and among a target market or target audience by delivering value that meets real pain points.
We provide deep, end-to-end support across critical areas of innovation
Business Strategy and Business Model Innovation
Understand all the elements of your business model & develop a validation plan for the critical assumptions your team is making through our go-to-market strategy support, ecosystem mapping and business model innovation services
Investment Readiness
Understand how to finance the idea in a sustainable way so that value is delivered and sustained throughout your team’s innovation journey with our business planning, financial modeling, and fundraising strategy services.
Marketing & Sales Strategy
Develop a deep understanding of the needs of your most critical customer segments as they move along their buying journey and create position statements that will guide your market prioritization through our integrated market communications support services
Organizational Design
Ensure you have the “right” operational structure (people, processes and systems) to deliver the identified value to your target customers through our organization assessment, capacity modeling, diversity and inclusion advisory, transformation and change management services
Legal and Intellectual Property Management
Legal and regulatory support for corporate structures, nonprofits and social businesses, and helps team navigate through intellectual property and licensing, including open-source approaches.
Partnership Development & Management
Develop a robust strategy to onboard strategic partners to support on critical aspects of the business model in order to move the project forward.
Leadership and Culture Management
Ensure you have a team of high-performing, authentic values-based leaders throughout your innovation journey with our team coaching, executive and line manager trainings, culture mapping and development workshops.
Product/Service Development Roadmap
Be able to define and prioritize the features of the solution based on the identified customer pain points as well as track and communicate the solution’s development initiatives and milestones to all relevant stakeholders.
Marketing Expansion Growth Hacking
Define experiments and processes aimed at building and scaling a customer base and revenue within new or existing markets using low-cost strategies.
Technology Strategy Definition and Digital Transformation
Define the role of digital technologies to create new — or modify existing — business processes, culture, and customer experiences to meet changing business and market needs of the identified customer segments.
Monitoring Evaluation & Learning Strategy
Define a robust impact strategy that will ensure the team can define baselines before solution launch, track/monitor progress during delivery and evaluate progress against desired outcomes on an ongoing basis.
We provide deep, end-to-end support across critical areas of innovation
Product Management
Ensure that value is delivered through our product management support where we help your team closely guide the product/service lifecycle - from development to positioning to pricing - by focusing on customers first and foremost.
Program and Project Management
We help teams to ensure each initiative defined during the solutioning phase is completed within time, scope and budget without compromising the most critical requirements needed for value delivery.
Project Monitoring and Evaluation
We help teams learn and assess progress made in achieving expected results and spot bottlenecks in implementation that highlights any unintended effects from experiments performed.
You’re the Builder. We’re Your Co-Pilot.
We act as the ecosystem enabler for grassroots innovation in Africa — helping you know what to do, who to become, and how to build solutions using local insight and resources. We do this through a scalable community of global leaders, regional impact makers, and local experts intentionally curated to support this journey.