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Develop the systems, methods and tools to create your own innovation team. Looking to launch a new company? Check out New Ventures. Want to reach a new type of customer? Explore New Customers.

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Cases

Nike's new business exploration team has worked with Jump over the past several years to help coalesce the team, clarify its mandate and its success metrics. The team has gone on to develop new revenue streams for Nike, including a cool collaboration with Apple's iPod. Virgin has long been known as one of the most innovative companies in the world, creating standout businesses in stagnant markets. The company's approach to innovation, however, had never been made systematic. Jump helped Virgin understand how companies plan and invest in innovation, as well as how to make such initiatives successful. Jump gave Virgin actionable directions for how to leverage past success to make its innovation capability more robust.

Many companies have begun to see the need to improve their own ability to innovate. They engage Jump to help them develop a sustainable growth and innovation strategy. These projects are about capacity building -- teaching people to fish instead of just giving them one. As such, the process is collaborative. We co-construct a vision of what innovation should look like, develop a plan for achieving that vision and provide the team with the right tools to use along the way.

Key Services

Executive Advising. Receive trusted counsel on how to make innovation work on a long-term basis.

Learning Labs.  Learn the tools and methods your team will need to innovate on its own.

Executive Team Workshops.  Get your team up to speed with internal workshops and executive retreats.

Innovation Process Design.  Make your methods for innovation tangible and maximize its efficiency in your organization.

Innovation ROI Measurement Systems.  Create methods for demonstrating the business value of a commitment to design and innovation.

Innovation Action Plans.  Plot an actionable roadmap of innovation initiatives, from quick hits to the audacious goals down the road.

Innovation Management Systems.  Understand how you’re using innovation today, and what you could be doing tomorrow.

Innovation Workspaces.  Facilitate innovation in your company by creating spaces designed to foster collaboration and creativity.

White Papers
	Five Key Strategies for Managing Change. Dev shares some lessons from the Jump Offsite, our annual retreat for business leaders who are on the hook for new ideas and top-line growth. He lays out five key ways to make sure innovation teams get the organizational buy-in they need to succeed. First step? Don't call yourselves the "Innovation Department."			Making Metrics Meaningful Dev navigates the tricky realm of innovation measurement in his latest column. He offers five key strategies for developing useful metrics that will measure what you really want to know.
	Disruptive vs. Sustaining Innovations: Set Up the Rules in Advance. By clearly articulating different methods and metrics for sustaining and disruptive innovation projects, companies can eliminate the need for project teams to "opt out" of processes that may be inappropriate for their product. Doing so can make the objectives clear in advance. It can even help a firm to manage its tolerance for failure.			No More Best Practices! Best practices inherently assume that future conditions will mirror past conditions, and this may no longer be the case. Moreover, the particular situations in which the practice was seen to excel may be quite different from the situation right now. Maybe we need to just rename them Last Practices.