Rapid Innovation Sprint
1 to 2 daysFrame a challenge, generate and prioritise options and design the first experiment. Ideal for a team with a problem and no agreed way forward.
Sprints and facilitation
Move a priority challenge from discussion to a decision.
A sprint takes a challenge that matters, a team that owns it and a sponsor who will decide, and moves them from framing to a tested solution in days. AI accelerates the research, prototyping and analysis. People own the judgement.
AI-Enabled Innovation Sprints
What a sprint produces
A sprint takes a challenge that matters, a team that owns it and a sponsor who will decide, and moves them through framing, research, options, prototype and test in days rather than months. AI accelerates the research synthesis, ideation, prototyping and analysis; the team owns the judgement.
Sprints are also how capability is built. Practitioners and internal facilitators learn by working on the organisation’s real problems alongside our facilitators, and the outputs go into their Capability Portfolios.
- A validated solution and a decision, not a slide deck
- Evidence a sponsor can act on
- Teams who can repeat the process
- Faster movement from problem to implementation
1Frame
Sponsor, team and challenge agreed. Stakeholders mapped. The question the sprint must answer written down.
2Research
User and stakeholder interviews, existing data and AI-assisted synthesis produce an evidence-backed challenge definition.
3Options
Structured ideation widens the field; explicit criteria narrow it. The riskiest assumption is named.
4Prototype
A realistic prototype built in hours with modern tools, good enough to learn from real users.
5Test
Five real users, a structured test and honest analysis of what the evidence supports.
6Decide
A decision pitch to the sponsor: what we learned, what we recommend, what it would take to implement.
Entry offers
Four ways to run a sprint
From a two-day rapid sprint to a twelve-week accelerator running several challenge teams in parallel.
AI Innovation Sprint
4 to 5 daysA full Design Sprint with AI-assisted research, prototyping and analysis, ending with a tested prototype and a decision pitch.
Strategic Alignment Sprint
2 daysA leadership team aligns on priorities, decision criteria and a portfolio of challenges worth pursuing.
Challenge Accelerator
6 to 12 weeksSeveral challenge teams move in parallel from framing to validated solution with facilitated checkpoints, coaching and a final decision panel.
Evidence a sprint leaves behind
- Framed challenge statements
- Research findings and assumption maps
- Tested prototypes
- Experiment and validation results
- Decision pitches and implementation outlines
Sprint outputs go into participants’ Capability Portfolios and count toward Innovation Practitioner recognition.
Strategic Facilitation and Transformation
Help senior teams decide and act
Senior teams rarely lack ideas or intelligence. They lack a process that turns discussion into decisions with evidence, clear ownership and a date. We design and facilitate the sessions where that happens: strategy alignment, portfolio prioritisation, executive decisions and transformation planning.
Every session produces a record of what was decided, why, and what happens next, and feeds the governance model that keeps it moving.
- Decisions made and recorded
- Priorities aligned across a leadership team
- A governed challenge portfolio
- Momentum from discussion into action
Strategic Alignment Sprint
2 daysAlign a leadership team on priorities, decision criteria and a challenge portfolio.
Executive Decision Workshops
Half day to 1 dayStructured sessions that take a specific decision from options and evidence to a recorded outcome.
Innovation Portfolio Design
2 to 4 weeksDesign the challenge portfolio, prioritisation framework and dashboard a leadership team will govern.
Strategy and Transformation Facilitation
Facilitation of strategy development, transformation planning and the leadership conversations that go with them.
Leadership and Portfolio Governance
Establish the forum, cadence and evidence requirements for evidence-led investment decisions.
Results
Sprints and facilitation in practice
Enterprise, consumer goods
Faster from concept to shelf
A global consumer goods company
A multi-stage programme in agile and lean methods that reset how product teams at one of the world’s largest snack companies moved from concept to launch.
Read the case studyEnterprise, food service
Faster quarterly planning
A leading UK quick-service restaurant brand
Sprint methods and agile working applied to quarterly planning, reducing planning time and speeding up the route to market.
Read the case studyEnterprise, manufacturing
A five-year strategy built through remote sprints
A leading UK consumer goods manufacturer
Agile and design thinking applied to remote collaboration during the pandemic, producing a five-year vision, an innovation pipeline and a factory-of-the-future concept.
Read the case studyWhich challenge should go first?
Bring the challenge, the sponsor and the team. We will tell you honestly whether a sprint is the right instrument and, if it is, which one.