Strategic
Whether you are launching a new product or looking to grow your brand, our team of strategists will plot a clear path to achieving your objectives.
Brand strategy
Companies that invest in a distinct brand strategy are better equipped to build lasting relationships with customers and establish a strong market position.
By leveraging our industry experience, we discover the opportunities in niche financial markets and develop effective brand strategies for small, medium and large companies with high growth aspirations.
Our services include:
- Discovery workshops and audits
- Research, analysis, evaluation and insight
- Roadmaps and activation programmes
- Positioning
- Branding Systems
Marketing strategy
We understand the complexities, challenges and regulations of the financial sector. But more importantly, we understand the opportunities financial brands have to communicate effectively with their audience.
With this knowledge, we help our clients to develop a strategy that will genuinely attract, communicate and convert customers. By taking the time to understand your business, its audience, its aspirations and its unique position in the marketplace, our team of strategists will help design a clear path to achieving your communication objectives.
Our services include:
- Digital marketing strategy
- Content strategy
- Social media strategy
- PR strategy
Design consultancy
Research by McKinsey* found that organisations with high design maturity outperformed competitors by over 30% revenue growth and 50% return to shareholders. By strategically aligning design activity with business objectives, our consultants help financial organisations achieve this growth and accelerate their profitability
With robust research and discovery, we lay a solid data foundation, then execute the most appropriate, customer-centric design methodologies at leadership, product portfolio and team level to ideate and develop solutions that directly impact your bottom-line.
Our services include:
- Strategy: design capacity, design systems, products and services, content, customer experience
- Audit: design maturity, design systems, products and services, content, customer experience
- Building internal design capacity
- Customer-centric design coaching, training and education
- Organisation discovery, design and development
- Pattern Libraries and Design Systems
- Innovation and Agility
- Systems Thinking
- Horizon Scanning
Business innovation
In spite of a highly regulated operating environment, financial firms can enhance competitiveness with an innovative approach and creative solutions to high-stakes challenges.
We apply proven, flexible Design Thinking frameworks at board, product portfolio or delivery team level to de-risk business critical decisions, discover unexpected opportunities, and innovate products and services. Impacts, aligned to your goals, might be to accelerate value generation, boost team agility and focus, shorten time to market, or enhance your internal innovation practices.
Our services include:
- Customer research and understanding
- Problem discovery and exploration
- Challenge definition and reframing
- Idea creation and evolution
- Solution prototyping and testing
- Results analysis and evaluation
- Innovation system design and coaching
- Business agility
Other services.
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