ETHOS Collective’s Innovation Accelerator Process is designed as a reset for your company’s strategic technology-based solutions. Our five-stage methodology is a simple-yet-elegant, comprehensive-yet-lean process designed to help you find clarity, direction, and momentum, and to gain buy-in from your leadership team and investors.
Stage 1 - ETHOS Innovation Readiness Assessment
ETHOS conducts leadership interviews, reviews strategic materials, and evaluates & scores your company’s innovation readiness. (where are you are now, define success for next stage milestone)
Timeframe:
- As little as a week if we are facing urgent timelines, or as much as six weeks for a comprehensive review. We meet you where you are.
Deliverables:
- Executive Summary - Aimed at an audience of executive sponsors, investors or BOD, packaged in a way to greenlight next stages.
- Detailed Assessment - Breakdown of assessment findings in detail, with the information necessary for client to accurately review & address with your Innovation Guides
- Detailed recommendation for next steps
Stage 2 - ETHOS Innovation Framework Based on our findings from the Innovation Readiness, ETHOS will:
- Conduct workshops with deliverables to define business, product, technology and/or Go-To-Market Strategy
- Teach/Upgrade team members skills & capabilities
- Identify needs/gaps for the journey ahead;
- Define the ETHOS Innovation Scorecard to guide progress.
Timeframe:
- Applying our Innovation Framework is dynamic and iterative. Skills, readiness, willingness and team size are key drivers.
Deliverables:
- Your team, engaged, educated, and prepared for the work ahead
- A clear delineation of gaps to be filled for the work ahead
- A clear path for the stages ahead
- Clarity on how we will gauge progress (ETHOS Innovation Scorecard)
Stage 3 - The Work Planning is complete. We know where you stand as an innovator, we know how we will measure progress and success, we have a Framework to proceed. Now the real work begins. ETHOS guides your leadership team in holistic & integrated product and Go-To-Market execution - objectively testing, iterating and refining the strategic approach to hit goals & milestones focused on market success.
Timeframe:
- Scope and time are dependent on what we are doing. We may be reinventing your product development process or putting a marketing, sales or customer success team in place.
Deliverables:
- Your team, functioning at an entirely new level.
- Your stakeholders, seeing real transformation and results.
- Your business, thriving and growing.
Stage 4 - Implement ETHOS Innovation Scorecard ETHOS helps design/deploy a company innovation progress dashboard and report, with updates being done to change and iteration in real-time.
Timeframe:
- The ETHOS Innovation Scorecard is executed in parallel with The Work in Stage 3.
Deliverables:
- Progress reports with insights into recommended adjustments to plan.
Stage 5 - Launch, Measure, Test, Report, Reassess ETHOS conducts regular strategic review sessions to efficiently and accurately suggest strategic changes and tactical adjustments to keep momentum on track.
Timeframe:
- Ongoing, as necessary and desired
Deliverables:
- Transparency, timeliness, accountability, and measurable change to your business