David Helps

innovation menu

enabling sustainable, regenerative, products & services

Kickstart
Defining your innovation spaces

New Horizons
Create a pre-innovation vision

Treasure Hunt
Sift & prioritise existing insights & ideas

Creation
Building & testing your innovation ideas

Classic
Extend to new users, channels & markets

Brand powered
Strengthen brand equity, deliver incremental revenue

Sustainable
Circular futures. New, regenerative value creation

Execution
Making your ideas a reality

Ideas that Happen
Plan, design & deliver the reality

Problem solving
Removing barriers & creative workarounds

Coaching
Give others the tools and advice to help make your brand fly

Innovation partner
Coaching in-theory & in-practice Teaming up for a project or workstream

Innovation methods
“The Copenhagen Method”
CIFS – Copenhagen Institute for Future Studies applied strategic foresight

“Strategy is Innovation”
Tuck Executive Education for C-suite action, the 3 Box Solution

“Breakthrough Innovation”
Columbia Business School re-configure existing resources to innovate

“Design Thinking for Innovation”
MIT Managment Executive Education Real/Win/Worth theory

“The Business Model Canvas”
Universal & adaptive strategy framework

design menu

Design thinking is baked in. Not so much a service, more like what you get as standard when working with me on anything. I’m a trained product designer, with over 35 years experience of applying design-led thinking across global & local brands. I can help to advise, plan and direct design workstreams – moving effortlessly between the visual, digital, tactile & experiential

Creative Strategy
The creative magic that delivers to the strategic logic

Brand Experience
Go beyond awareness, recognition & transaction

Visual Identity
Be coherent & consistent on-line & offline

Design-led thinking
People-first, needs-based, function & seduction

Creative problem solving
Use creativity to solve business and marketing challenges