We build better innovation
At Pollen, we help organisations shape their next steps.
We develop innovation and transformation strategies, lead complex innovation projects, and strengthen the behaviors teams need to explore, create, and deliver new business opportunities.
We help companies secure competitiveness by becoming better at innovation and navigation uncertainty.
Our partnerships and collaboration span from weeks to years depending on our customers challenge, ambition and desired outcome.
Innovation strategies:
Explore
The outcome of an innovation strategy are new opportunity areas to play in, visions how future products or services look like, and the steps to get there.
Our edge is using our innovation behaviors to both find unique opportunity areas and anchoring them in organisations.
New business opportunities:
Create
The outcome of Create are typically 6-12 innovative and validated concepts that are completely new to our customers, of which 3 can be applied for patents.
Our edge is using our expertise from psychology, creativity, design thinking to diverge from common ideas to true creative concepts.
Innovation culture:
Behave
A curious and exploratory culture is needed to question status que. The way to do that is to increase the innovation behaviors that are used.
We help our customers baseline of their organisation and target the most valuable actions first.
Our edge is our own set of innovation behaviors, proved during a decade applied on innovation work and our behavior change expertise.
Pollen innovation process
Pollen’s process and methodology builds on both design thinking; the double diamond, and our expertise of psychology and behaviour.
We start wide in Explore to understand shifts, uncover opportunity areas, dive into the unknown and frame possible directions. In Create, we use those findings and directions to shape concepts, build pretotypes, and anchor outcomes with the relevant stakeholders. Behave, our own set of innovation behaviours, runs through the whole process, helping teams stay open and capture more possibilities in the unknown.
Typical output Explore:
Opportunity Areas
Visions
Step-by-Step Actions
Typical output Create:
Concepts
Business models/case
Customer Insights
IP
Typical starting points for our customers
Where are our future business opportunities?
What shifts and trends will have an impact on us?
What new challenges will we face?
Which customer needs are rising or declining?
What capabilities do we need to meet future demand?
How do we align and collaborate better internally?
Our customers say
“The good thing about Pollen is that in addition to new patent applications and innovation behavioral training, we also identify new emerging areas to explore further.”
Ericsson“Thank you so much! The feedback from the group is unanimous, everyone felt it was a great way to approach our strategy from new angles.2
Nordea