The Boutique Strategy & Innovation Consulting FIrm

Strategy, Innovation, Leadership & Culture
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Develop & drive business strategy

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Grow & optimize through innovation

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Transform Leadership & Culture

Innovation Leadership Development & Training

Strategy & Innovation Consulting

InnovationPoint is a boutique consulting firm focused on the practice of Strategic Innovation. We blend non-traditional and conventional consulting methodologies to deliver business breakthroughs that grow the topline – through opportunity identification, new business creation, strategy development and new product, service and category innovation. In our capability-building work we help clients design organizational structures, processes and cultures that tightly align to business strategy and create sustainable innovation.

A number of factors set us apart:

  • Focus – We focus exclusively on the practice of Strategic Innovation
  • Deep experience in innovation consulting – For over twenty years we have been thought leaders and practitioners in innovation consulting, working closely with Fortune 1000 clients
  • Visionary yet pragmatic approach – Leveraging our Silicon Valley heritage and mindset, we lead teams from future-oriented exploration through implementation planning
  • Proprietary, multidisciplinary methodologies – We combine non-traditional and conventional approaches that integrate foresight, insight and organizational success factors to drive breakthrough results
  • Principal-led programs – Our team includes seasoned practitioners with proven backgrounds and experience. Our firm’s principals lead every client engagement
  • Accelerated implementation – We help teams accelerate investment decisions and move seamlessly into implementation
  • Breakthrough results – We deliver solid results that have lasting impact

In the management consulting landscape, InnovationPoint sits at the intersection of a number of disciplines. In working with us you will experience:

  • The non-traditional approaches to innovation found in the business creativity movement.
  • The traditional strategy consulting of large consulting firms.
  • Futures research and scenario development that creates an understanding of emerging trends and potential opportunities.
  • New product development viewpoint of industrial design firms.
  • Qualitative consumer/customer research to ensure that our work is inspired by deep insights.
  • Organizational design and change management perspective that builds a company’s internal capability for sustainable innovation.

Through our diverse and extensive consulting experience we have created a multidisciplinary approach to growth-related challenges founded upon proven innovation principles. By blending proprietary innovation-based tools and techniques with more conventional methods, we inspire and challenge leadership teams to create breakthrough strategies, business models, new ventures, categories, products and services that lead to significant new revenue streams, and institutionalize an organizational capacity for Strategic Innovation.

Our Strategic Innovation Consulting Firm Leaders

We are a group of seasoned business leaders and consultants who know what it takes to get to the next level. We help innovative leaders disrupt the mindsets of their teams and organizations in order to disrupt their markets with business breakthroughs that positively surprise customers and grow the top line.

Our tools and processes are based upon decades of experience. We know that breakthrough innovation and business growth demands a dual-focus – on new strategies, products, services and business models and also on the leadership and strategic business alignment necessary for accelerating disruptive organizational change.

We provide thought leadership on what it takes to create new opportunities and business models, with an emphasis on the often overlooked and under-appreciated success factors and capabilities required for leading strategic innovation and change.

InnovationPoint Founder, Soren Kaplan

Soren Kaplan is a bestselling and award winning author, an Affiliate at the Center for Effective Organizations at USC’s Marshall School of Business, a Columnist for Inc. Magazine, a globally recognized keynote speaker, and the Founder of InnovationPoint. Business Insider and the Thinkers50 have named him one of the world’s top management thought leaders and consultants.

Soren has advised and led professional development programs for thousands of executives around the world, including Disney, NBCUniversal, Kimberly-Clark, Colgate-Palmolive, Hershey, Red Bull, Medtronic, Roche, Philips, Cisco, Visa, Ascension Health, Kaiser Permanente, CSAA Insurance Group, American Nurses Association, and many others. He has lectured at the Harvard Business School, Copenhagen Business School, Melbourne Business School, Breda University in the Netherlands, and with other MBA and executive education programs globally. Soren’s debut book, Leapfrogging: Harness the Power of Surprise for Business Breakthroughs, was named “Best Leadership Book” and The Invisible Advantage: How to Create a Culture of Innovation received the “Best General Business Book” distinction by the International Book Awards. He has been quoted, published, and interviewed by Harvard Business Review, Fast Company, Forbes, CNBC, National Public Radio, the American Management Association, USA Today, Strategy & Leadership, and The International Handbook on Innovation, among many others. He holds Master’s and Ph.D. degrees in Organizational Psychology and possesses dual US-French citizenship.