Ideas

Inspiration, influence and friends made along the way. Want to understand our perspective on growth and innovation? Check out JumpWriting. We didn't come to our perspective by accident. A lot of people shaped our opinions along the way? Check out our Reading List to see where we came from.

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Snapshots

Jump works to make knowledge visible and tangible. As a natural consequence, we constantly capture our work and play in pictures. Click below to check out what's new, what's next and what's fun.

New opportunity development requires us to draw upon a variety of disciplines. We use social research techniques to reframe business problems in terms of what keeps ordinary folks in the world up at night. We use design methods to help companies connect with those people’s lives through compelling new products and services. And we use business planning techniques to create actionable roadmaps for sustaining success over time. It’s a combination of qualitative research, product definition and business planning. This is still an emergent field, so consider us simply fellow students and practitioners. With that in mind, here is a collection of thoughts, references and links that we’ve found helpful in doing our job better.

Thought-starters

JumpWriting.  Straight from the basement full of monkeys pounding on typewriters we affectionately call JumpLabs, here’s news that you can use that we’ve found in our work.

Readings.  There’s a lot of great stuff out there to read that’s relevant to Growth and innovation. Here’s what we think is the best.

JumpPals.  In the world of doing great things, there are those who’ve got game, and those who are faking it. Here’s a list of people we admire.