Innovation Cities™

How do cities become better urban innovation economies and drive local home grown innovation?

Smart Cities

The development and evolution of smart cities technologies and data on smart cities. 2ThinkNow provides data expertise to IESE, Savills and Fortune 100 companies in this area.

Data Markets

Using data to make market based decisions on locations, very useful for analysis of competing places.

City Branding

As experts in conjunction with Place Brand Observer, 2ThinkNow can develop data-backed city branding plans.

Placemaking

Placemaking has become incredibly important part of the strategy of cities and their urban assets. 2ThinkNow analysts bring our data-backed approach to your placemaking efforts.

Innovation Consulting Methodology

Innovation Consulting : USA, Canada, Europe, Australia, NZ and Asia.

Using the 2ThinkNow Innovation Design Life Cycle™ approach, 2ThinkNow analysts turns ideas and issues into innovation.

2ThinkNow innovation consulting uses the Innovation Design Life Cycle™ process. This end-to-end Life Cycle process includes access to 2ThinkNow analysis, analytical tools, innovation models, metric design, data gathering, and innovation training.

Insights

2ThinkNow transfer the knowledge to clients, with a range of benchmarking data, analyst reports, events and courses. Our innovation consulting draws on these components to solve client problems.

Practical - based on data

2ThinkNow consulting analysts deliver practical innovation know-how, and can deep-dive into innovation models. All 2ThinkNow analysts are undergo our vendor-certification program in innovation.

Cross-Silo - outside the box

All 2ThinkNow consulting analysts have experience communicating ideas from different clients, across cultures and sectors. Our analysts hold postgraduate business, I.T., analysis or Arts qualifications.

Do you need to build an innovation team or solve a challenge quickly?

2ThinkNow innovation analysts consult on innovation projects remotely via video-conference, email or smart device. Best of all, there is no 'start delay' -- 2ThinkNow analysts have undertaken 2ThinkNow internal training, and are experienced in innovation design and data, and can start in days or weeks.

Innovation Problems Solved:

Some of your innovation tasks that 2ThinkNow innovation analyst consultants are perfect for are:

Private Video Advisory

Responding to disruption? Private strategic advice on specific change initiatives in your city markets and business. Delivered one-to-one by 2ThinkNow analysts over a video call.

Your Idea Challenges

New ideas on specific change initiatives in your city and business, our consultants can join your virtual teams for brainstorming.

Deep Dive

Want to investigate a data point or a indicator? This can be a days work of around 20 researched slides (about an hours work of presentation), or a more in-depth answer over a longer period.

‘Quick-Hits’

Short-term consulting to achieve your immediate project needs over a single day, weeks or longer.

Innovation Project Teams

Long-term innovation project secondments as part of your team from idea-generation, design and data gathering among other tasks.

Other consulting arrangements limited by your imagination. Please ask us.

Smart Methods of Delivery

Regular consulting engagement with analysts: via email, smartphone, SMS, Facetime, Skype, video-conference and Smart Device technologies. Our analysts work with you wherever you are.

Bottom Line

Achieve your innovation requirements by having our staff assist you as part of the team, and save on have analysts trained in innovation by 2thinknow.

You can order our consultants online for a single day -- just to get started immediately, and then move forward in blocks of time.

For any project larger than a day, (or to be delivered in-person) simply request a Proposal below.