What we do
Portfolio and innovation strategy
Digitally enabled innovation models
Brand design to value
Examples of our work
Accelerating time to market and improving gross margins
Resetting an innovation model and portfolio
Redesigning an innovation strategy and operating model
Our people
Stacey Haas
Partner, Detroit
Stacey helps clients drive profitable growth, with a focus on portfolio strategy, innovation, and design-to-deliver above-market growth.
Rob Loughlin
Partner, Boston
Rob helps clients drive profitable growth and innovation through brand and product portfolios, supplier management, and ecosystem development. He co-leads the firm’s global work on portfolio, innovation, design, and digitally enabled innovation.
Jon McClain
Partner, Chicago
Jon helps clients drive profitable, above-market growth with a focus on portfolio strategy, innovation, and new business building.
Erik Roth
Senior Partner, Stamford
Erik is one of the firm’s foremost experts on matters related to innovation, including innovation strategy, new-product development, business-model creation, open innovation, culture change, and R&D management.
Featured capabilities
To understand your company’s performance in innovation:
- Innovation Quotient – Consumer-tailored innovation diagnostic that assesses company performance versus a database of 7,000+ companies based on McKinsey’s eight essentials of innovation
Identify and prioritize innovation opportunities:
- PinPoint – Digital tool that rapidly identifies product growth drivers using web scraping, natural language processing, and advanced analytics of aggregated consumer data
- Social Sense – At-scale social sensing tool to rapidly glean brand and product insights to guide innovation and renovation activities
- Growth Maps – Machine-learning driven segmentation of the market used to understand current positioning and identify and prioritize growth space
- Innovation Incrementality – Analytics leveraging point of sale data to both predict and analyze post-launch the true incrementality of an innovation
- Project Portfolio Navigator – Proprietary advanced analytics optimization engine used to visualize and prioritize a portfolio of projects for rapid decision-making
Developing new products:
- Culinary Excellence Center – Suite of product capabilities to support innovation and renovation for food companies including clean sheeting, teardowns, sensory testing, and “kitchen” lab space
- FoodIQ – AI-driven ingredient reformulation that can optimize for cost and sustainability
- PackIQ – Digital tool and database of thousands of types of packaging to automatically identify areas to improve cost structure through packaging redesign
- R&D Excellence – Suite of tools and approaches to assess R&D organizations, build winning strategies, and optimize resource deployment
- Innovation Garage – Approach to collaboratively build new product ideas while also shifting the client’s innovation operating model
- Koru – Digital asset that helps de-risk and build conviction in new ventures, businesses and products by uncovering, quantifying, and prioritizing underlying assumptions