INNOVATION THAT WORKS
MileZero partners with leaders to use innovation to confidently and consistently grow revenue
Are you frustrated by innovation efforts that don't get results?
- Ideas that are impractical or never implemented
- Theories and frameworks that don’t fit your company or culture
- Events that don’t produce lasting change even though they feel good in the moment
- Insights that you’ve heard before and that your competitors already know
- Capabilities that come and go with consulting teams
The key is a holistic approach to innovation
- ARCHITECTURE: Strategies, structures, processes, metrics, and governance that enable you to design, develop, and launch your innovations
- BEHAVIOR: Mindsets, beliefs, styles, and actions that are different from traditional operating approaches but required for innovation success
- CULTURE: Connections, relationships, events, and stories that encourage and enable growth
We had three years to close a $6 million revenue gap. It may not sound like much but when you’re starting from scratch in a highly regulated industry, creating new products takes years, sometimes decades. We worked with MileZero for six months to find new customers for existing products. Six months later, we had $25 million in net new revenue confirmed.
Featured Case Study
Building an innovation process and culture in biopharma
When the CEO of a $5 billion BioPharma company announced that the company’s top priority was to build a “world-class innovation capability” that was relentlessly customer-centric, the Executive Leadership Team realized the company needed more than a new process and more training.
We were at a juncture with a product where there were disparate views on why it failed and how to prevent a similar outcome with our next project. Our work with MileZero enabled us to build a common understanding of what happened and develop the tools and relationships to make our next product a success.
Our CEO immediately adopted and acted on the recommendations, sharing it at a company meeting. We are actively using the tools she introduced in Strategic Marketing and project management.
How We Can Work Together
Success happens when you know what to do + want to do it
Most companies have tried something in their quest to innovate – hackathons, incubators, innovation teams, corporate venture capital, even wholly-owned labs. But what separates profitable innovators from the rest isn’t the specific solution they choose (there is no silver bullet), it is their understanding of and commitment to learning, doing, and sharing their work. Achieving that requires a different approach.
Although our people are deeply committed to our mission and exceptional at delivering value in features and products, we engaged Robyn to help us evaluate and develop an innovation practice that works in our complex business and development environment.
She not only quickly understood the complexities of our business and operations but was an excellent coach and role model with the humility and confidence that supported and enabled our teams to succeed independently.
Meet MileZero’s Founder
Corporate innovation is hard. But it's not impossible.
I know because I’ve done it. I was on the Procter & Gamble team that launched Swiffer and Swiffer WetJet. I’ve worked alongside leaders and innovators at Fortune 500 companies, industry-defining startups, and world-changing non-profits.
It takes an experienced innovator to see beyond the hoopla of innovation events, and overcome fading support for breakthroughs and the abrupt end to high-profile endeavors. With flexibility, focus, humility, and humor, I help you do all that AND stay on the road to real results.