Move People. Deliver Results.

Growth through acquisition alone would not provide the agility this company needed to pivot to a rapidly changing market and the shifting technological, economic, and social environment. This company needed to build capabilities to innovate to serve their customers' future needs. 

1. Develop a campaign to help embed innovation into the organization's culture, accelerating strategic product development, enhancing customer satisfaction, and responding to disruptive change. 
2. Build a structured process to inspire innovation tied to growth strategy, increase capacity, and build the discipline to see innovation from ideation through realization.
3. Differentiate, improve efficiency, and capture emerging growth opportunities. 

Communication Strategies

• Leverage the company's 125th Anniversary and invoke the founder, an inventor and entrepreneur, to inspire a resurgence of innovation.
• Increase understanding of and sense of urgency for innovation.
• Host a global competition to discover breakthrough innovation.
• Stage a weeklong innovation symposium with brainstorming, networking, leadership strategy sessions.
• Host an innovation and patent awards program and gala.
• Create a drumbeat platform for communication related to innovation and customer service.