Simply put, we use time-tested design methods to solve tough problems. We have worked with clients in a variety of different industries, from small businesses to Fortune 1000.
Our Expertise
Business Design
Businesses are not created by locking yourself in a conference room for 6 months. At SCS, we help you design, test and iterate business concepts in order to quickly find out - is this business desirable? feasible? viable?
Design and build innovative solutions that solve real needs for your customers.
Determine the customer, value proposition and revenue model that best help achieve product-market fit.
Draft a business blueprint (not business plan) to move your concept forward and get buy-in from others.
Prototype and iterate the parts of your business model that help you know if and when to pause, pivot, or press the accelerator.
Strategy Consulting
With the pace of change accelerating, strategy is no longer static. At SCS, we dive in to understand the situation and complications of your business and partner with you to design solutions that endure.
Stakeholder engagement and buy-in to ensure everyone is on the same page
Leverage time-tested and flexible frameworks designed to bring out your best thinking and propel initiatives forward.
Combine the best of design and business techniques to create a strategy that works for you and your company.
Experience Design
The world has moved beyond goods and services. Now, more than ever, experience matters. At SCS, we help you design and deliver impactful experiences for customers and employees.
Journey mapping to visualize the process from end-to-end to ensure the team has empathy for every step in the experience.
Service blueprints to help everyone understand not only what needs to happen at the front of the stage, but the back of stage for the experience to work.
Prototype and iterate the key levers in the experience to quickly find the experience that has the most impact.
Marketing Services
Driving brand awareness and sales looks different for every company. At SCS, we partner with you to design and develop marketing materials to showcase who you are and what you do.
Competitive landscape assessments can help determine ways to differentiate from other players in the industry.
Case study development gives you a powerful and proven tool to illustrate the value your company brings to the table.
Value proposition creation and vetting to help figure out the best way to communicate where to play and how to win in the market
Strategic Facilitation
You can’t play the violin and conduct the symphony. The same applies to business. At SCS, we jump in to facilitate key meetings to create shared understanding and commitment to action.
Stakeholder interviews before the meeting brings an independent lens on whether or not the team has a common understanding of the goals.
Directing the session allows the participants to participate rather than being distracted by time keeping, note taking, etc.
Post meeting integration means we take care of the analysis, synthesis (and clean up!) so the team members can get back to work.
(aspiring) Executive Coaching
Executives have coaches and consultants, but the aspiring executive needs the most help. At SCS, we have been there…and can help you overcome the corporate pull toward mediocrity to unleash your potential.
Act as a sounding board for the aspiring executive struggling with the systems, processes, norms and rules for what has always worked in the past.
Help aspiring executives and middle managers gain self-awareness and self-confidence in order to help unlock true potential.
Develop strategies for leaders to influence up, down and across the company to push beyond ‘the way it’s always been done’ and achieve true innovation.
Clarify goals for leaders to achieve their own development objectives.