Strategy & Portfolio Design
We build strategy for ambitious challenges and translate it into coherent portfolios of interventions and investments — bridging high-level vision with practical implementation, especially under real-world constraints.
Leaders come to us when they're looking for fresh approaches. We help chart practical paths forward when traditional approaches fall short — and make ambitious strategy real through portfolios of interventions.
We bring expertise in strategic foresight, portfolio design, and facilitation to help teams navigate uncertainty and leverage their ecosystems when options are limited.
We build strategy for ambitious challenges and translate it into coherent portfolios of interventions and investments — bridging high-level vision with practical implementation, especially under real-world constraints.
We design and facilitate the critical processes that bring leadership teams and senior decision makers together — to navigate complex decisions, build alignment, and chart practical paths forward.
We design new approaches to persistent challenges through deep research, prototyping, and testing — from AI-powered tools to new service models and organisational interventions.
Our teams work with leaders who need fresh approaches to persistent challenges. We've helped organisations design AI-powered development tools with the United Nations, develop universal healthcare investment strategies with governments, and create new approaches to project management with Fortune 500 companies.
We combine strategic foresight, systems thinking, and portfolio design to help organisations develop practical approaches to complex challenges — bridging the gap between high-level strategy and on-the-ground implementation.
Start a conversationWe bring a proven methodology rooted in design thinking and lean approaches — applied with the rigour that complex, high-stakes challenges demand.
We build long-term partnerships with organisations facing persistent challenges and uncertain environments. Our understanding of how change happens in complex systems helps ensure your investments create lasting impact.
We don't just develop strategies — we design the portfolios of interventions and build the organisational capabilities needed to execute them effectively within real-world constraints.
We help organisations find pathways when options are limited, leverage their ecosystems, and create approaches that work even when you can't control all the variables.
From a one-week sprint to a twelve-week accelerator, each program is tailored to move your teams from insight to action.
Teams work on real innovation projects inside your organisation, coached through the practical details of applying the design thinking approach end to end.
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Get months of work done in a week. We guide a cross-functional team through rapidly designing and testing prototypes, or discovering new opportunities.
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A hands-on, experiential workshop for senior managers and staff to understand and experience the key elements of the design thinking approach.
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Kal uses design to uncover new ways to address tough challenges, with over a decade leading innovation projects for multinationals, governments, and social organisations. Author of the Social Business Model Canvas, used in 80+ countries.
Stephanie uses design to transform organisations across retail, F&B, hospitality, education, and government — leading user-experience work for national courts and integrated public transit, and teaching design studios at UC Berkeley.
Pla is a Tandemic trainer in design thinking and social innovation. A business designer specialising in management and entrepreneurship, she holds a Masters from Stanford and led restructuring at one of Thailand's largest companies.
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