CAPABILITIES
Architecting Change: Custom Innovation Training & Learning Labs
The Challenge
Most innovation training fails because it teaches “ideation” in a vacuum, ignoring the systemic gravity of large organizations. Teams often leave workshops with a collection of sticky notes but lack the systemic intelligence or technological fluency to navigate real-world complexity.
Human-Led, AI-Enhanced, Systemically Designed
We don’t offer “off-the-shelf” workshops. We design Capability Interventions. Every programme is customised to your organisation’s specific challenges, culture, and industry value landscape.
By blending Systems Thinking with AI-augmented Business Design, we move beyond traditional “Design Thinking 2.0” to help your teams navigate the “Ecosystems Age”—where value is created through connection, resilience, and rapid validation.
Who It’s For
Our custom learning interventions are designed for organisations ready to move beyond “Innovation Theatre” and build a high-performance, future-ready workforce:
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Executive Leadership & Board Members: Seeking to understand the “Ecosystems Age,” solve the Innovator’s Dilemma, and implement Dual-Mode Structures to protect future growth.
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Innovation & Strategy Directors: Looking to up-skill their teams in AI-augmented Business Design and systemic mapping to accelerate the transition from “Explore” to “Exploit.”
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Operational & Delivery Teams: The “engine room” of the business. We help project managers, operations leads, and department heads adopt Agile and Lean Intrapreneurship methods to integrate innovation into the core business without disrupting daily performance.
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Sustainability & ESG Leads: Needing to shift their teams from compliance-based thinking to Circular & Systemic Innovation that balances People, Planet, Profit, and Progress.
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R&D & Deep Tech Teams: Scientists and engineers tasked with bridging the “Complexity Gap” between technical discovery and commercialized market value.
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People & Culture (HR) Partners: Focused on developing talent and skills across the organisation to drive a resilient, agile, and challenger-spirited culture.
How does it work?
- Context Audit: We discuss your specific challenges, “wicked problems,” and current innovation maturity.
- Modular Design: We select the right mix of AI tools, systemic frameworks, and mindset modules.
- Delivery Format: Choose from intensive 2-day bootcamps, 5-day programmes, or longer-term “Learning Lab” coaching.
- Measurement: We baseline your team’s mindset traits to measure growth and impact post-training.
Example day’s workshop flow for a wider programme
CORE TRAINING PILLARS & MODULAR OPTIONS
1. AI-Enhanced Innovation Approaches
Learn to use AI as a co-pilot across the entire Build-Measure-Learn cycle. From using LLMs for radical divergence to using Synthetic Users for rapid assumption testing.
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Focus: AI-augmented research, prompt engineering for ideation, and machine-speed synthesis.
2. Systemic Design & Systems Thinking
Move beyond the “User” to the “Ecosystem.” Learn to map “Wicked Problems,” identify leverage points, and understand the Industry Value Landscape.
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Focus: Complexity management, systems mapping, and ecosystem-level strategy.
3. Sustainable & Circular Business Design
Transition from linear to circular models. We use the 130+ Value Types Canvas to ensure every project delivers impact across People, Planet, Profit, and Progress.
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Focus: Circular economy frameworks, ESG-driven innovation, and regenerative business models.
4. Lean Intrapreneurship & Business Model Innovation
Empower your teams to act like “Venture Builders” within your corporate structure. Learn the mechanics of the Dual-Mode Innovation Structure.
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Focus: Value proposition design, lean startup methodology, and digital business model evolution.
5. Futures Thinking & Deep Tech Acceleration
Navigate uncertainty by identifying signals of change. We help R&D and strategy teams bridge the gap between “Deep Tech” discovery and commercialization.
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Focus: Horizon scanning, scenario planning, and de-risking emerging technologies.
6. Intensive How-to Pitch Training
Learning objectives and outcomes:
- Learn the art of pitching new sustainable business innovation ideas to senior executives and c-level teams. We teach you step-by-step how to develop and deliver the perfect pitch using a tried and tested effective method.
- Pitches typically just take 3 hours to create for first critical feedback from other team members, followed by further tweaks and final delivery for real seed investment and equity sharing of c-level teams.
Case Example: Innovate UK Learning Lab
The Challenge: A cohort of innovation practitioners and operational leads needed to move beyond user-centric design to tackle “Wicked Problems” within complex organisational and environmental ecosystems. The goal was to shift from designing isolated products to architecting interventions of change.
Key Outcomes & Impact
Systemic Design Learning Lab
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Systemic Mapping: Utilizing “Iceberg Models” and Stakeholder Ecosystem maps to visualize the invisible structures, power dynamics, and mental models driving current systemic behaviors.
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Leverage Point Identification: Teaching teams how to identify where a small shift can produce the largest systemic impact (moving from “Symptoms” to “Root Causes”).
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Intervention Strategy: Applying the Build-Measure-Learn loop to systemic prototypes, ensuring that “Explore” initiatives were de-risked through rapid field testing and feedback loops.
Shift in Perspective
Teams moved from “Problem Solvers” to “System Participants,” gaining the ability to navigate complexity without oversimplifying it.
Operational Readiness
Operational teams developed a shared language for “Intervention Design,” allowing them to integrate systemic changes into the core business more effectively.
Strategic Roadmap
Participants exited the programme with a validated “Theory of Change” and a portfolio of systemic experiments ready for immediate implementation.
What You’ll Achieve
We don’t just measure “satisfaction scores”; we measure the shift in your organisation’s ability to drive intervention and change. By the end of a custom training programme, your teams will achieve:
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Systemic Intelligence: The ability to map “Wicked Problems” and identify the highest leverage points for change within your specific industry value landscape.
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AI-Native Proficiency: Practical mastery of AI-augmented business design tools, enabling teams to automate the heavy lifting of research and synthesis while focusing on human-centric strategy.
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Evidence-Based Validation: A shift from “opinion-led” to “evidence-led” decision making, using the Build-Measure-Learn loop to (in)validate critical assumptions at high velocity.
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The 130+ Value Type Advantage: The capability to design solutions that create measurable value across the four quadrants: People, Planet, Profit, and Progress.
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Reduced “Handover Friction”: Operational teams will have the frameworks to integrate new “Explore” initiatives into the “Exploit” core, minimizing the internal friction that usually kills corporate innovation.
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Measurable Mindset Shift: A documented baseline and growth report, ensuring your culture is becoming more resilient, curious, and adaptable.
CLIENT EXPERIENCES
Our Team Has Worked with the World’s Largest Organizations
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DESIGN YOUR CUSTOM TRAINING PATH
Every challenge is unique. Contact us to audit your team’s current innovation maturity and configure a custom training programme—from Circularity to Deep Tech Acceleration.
