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UNPITCHD was founded in 2019 by a small team of experienced consultants with the bold ambition to shake-up the “big” innovation consulting models they had worked in for decades.
So, we’ve created a way to unleash the power of expertise and help our clients reach their growth ambition with truly original thinking.
Our consultants all share in a distinct set of beliefs and passion for innovation.
We always put customers first, we don’t do ’theatre’, we love nothing more than a gnarly ‘problem to solve’ and we won’t rest until the right solution goes live.
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We support large businesses, scale-ups and investors across innovation journey, from the discovery of growth opportunities to launch.
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Supercharge your growth trajectory
Venture Building
Design, test and build new propositions at pace
UNPITCHD's most famous export. Our proprietary and ruthlessly efficient 'new venture building' blueprint will get you from idea to MVP launch in 16 weeks.
Bridge the gap from concept to MVP: get unstuck and go live!
Bridging the gap from 'successful concept' to 'live offer' is often the most daunting step for corporates. We've developed a specific approach to help businesses get 'unstuck' and turn their ideas into reality at pace.
Partner with us on one of our own ventures
After spending years refining our new venture building blueprint with our client partners, we've finally made the leap and created our own new venture in the Fintech world. Watch this space!
Strategy
Set your strategic 'North Star' with intent
Where your business is tomorrow starts with the direction you set today. A good vision is built on a clear understanding of your market; the industry shifts you are facing, the moves your competitors are making and, most importantly, the human problems you are solving. Knowing why customers use your products and services, what needs you are fulfilling and how these needs may change over time will allow you to define the value you will drive in the future and define a customer centric vision to lead your business there.
'Now, Next, Future': methodically plan your growth roadmap
Get clarity on where your business is today and the steps required to realise your vision. Understand your businesses strengths and weaknesses and play these to your advantage; utilise the business assets you have to gain a competitive advantage, acknowledge the gaps you have and develop actionable plans to overcome them. Ensure you understand the pockets of customer value that you are driving across your growth strategy and that your strategy has the flexibility to adapt to changing markets or customer needs.
Map disruption and 'edge your bets'
Ensure your entire business is aligned to your vision and can capitalise on opportunities to make it a reality. Provide your teams with clear direction on where the business aims to be and how to prioritise innovation activities alongside business as usual. Establish a culture that rewards and enables innovation across the business; align employees' incentives to behaviours that will accelerate your growth strategy and provide the autonomy or mechanisms needed to prioritise and action innovative opportunities that arise. Ensure there is funding to take action outside of annual budgeting processes. Foster a culture that rewards test and learn activities and provide an easily accessible platform to capture, share and access those learnings across the business.
Place better bets
Hunt for growth
opportunities
Research
Identify needs and problems that are "worth solving"
Underserved needs represent the greatest opportunity for innovation on a customers journey; but not all needs are made equal. The first step of this is getting clarity on who your customers are. While demographic segmentation can help, far more value can be gained through behavioural segmentation; breaking the market into clusters that exhibit the same behaviours and therefore have the same desired outcomes. Once you know your market segments and their desired outcomes, you can assess the journey they go on today to achieve it. Here the goal is to first understand the journey they take and the “needs“ they have on that journey. We can then identify needs that are underserved; important to customers but not well satisfied. Needs can be functional (something customers have to do on the journey), emotional (how customers want to feel on the journey), or social (how customers want to be perceived). When you understand where needs sit and design solutions and experiences to address them, these solutions are more likely to be adopted.
Applied foresight: learn how to see behind corners
No business is an island, we all operate within a market and are subject to market forces. Customers, partners, competitors, regulators, economics, politics and technology all play a role and can impact the market and your business. Monitoring that impact is not only a good way to protect your business but a great way to identify growth opportunities. Markets tend to hold themselves in equilibrium under normal circumstances, so any form of disruption will deliver change. That change, handled correctly, represents opportunities on which your business can capitalise for growth. Ensure that your business has a good view on the ecosystem you operate in and that you have a good level of clarity on potential threats and opportunities that may present themselves. Alongside customer insights this should fuel your mid to long term vision and strategy.
Unlock the power of quality customer feedback
Quality customer feedback is a powerful driving force for business growth yet businesses often show a reluctance to effectively and systematically engage customers to realise these insights. There is good reason for this; feedback is inherently built on business needs yet requires customer effort and as such is perceived to be a burden on customers' time. To combat this businesses need to thinking customer feedback and start thinking customer engagement. Build a feedback mechanism that delivers a fair value exchange for both the business and the customer. It is not about reducing the burden on customer but rather ensuring there is a benefit given for their time spent (and that does not have to be monetary.) At UNPITCHD we therefore think about customer feedback [ahem] engagement as a proposition rather than a function. Our goal is to identify and match customer and business needs so that both parties benefit from sessions or mechanisms designed to gather feedback.
New Proposition Design
Unlock your team's creativity
Creativity can be sparked, unlocked and even trained. Whether you have one idea per minute and don't know where to start, or you have been staring at a blank page for weeks, we have the tools and the team to help you generate breakthrough ideas and concepts.
Design, iterate and create new concepts at pace
This is innovation's worst kept secret: ideas are all born ugly. It is only through iteration in 'real-life' conditions that new ideas can be shaped into successful offers. With that in mind, we have designed a highly experiemental and iterative process to fastly (but surely) develop new concepts that will fly off the shelves.
Unleash the potential of your existing offer with Behavioural Science
New ideas aren't everything. Businesses often create great offers that simply do not get the engagement or conversion they deserve. Working closely with behavioural economists and designers we have created a blueprint to identify friction to design (or indeed re-design) behaviourally improved experiences.
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