Innovation Engine
Innovation Engine is a strategy firm that helps organizations across sectors unlock new value, often by doing something they’ve never done before, or through a model they haven’t used before.
To Community is a set of strategies for bonding companies to communities. It’s also an open research program on how to transition society to new forms of community ownership and governance.
Here’s what we’re working on: Transitions Calculators: calculators to help transition companies and open source software projects to community governance, funded by the NSF and DIIF (Ford, Sloan, Omidyar, Schmidt Futures, Open Collective). Open Founder Interviews: research on founder openness to alternative financing, leading toward a public article. See below for summary and how to contribute. Product Discovery as Cooperative Communication: mathematical modeling research. See the project 1-pager. Software for E2C: an open-source software framework to help companies exit to community. See the To Community 1-pager and our YC pitch video.
Innovation Engine is a strategy firm that helps organizations across sectors unlock new value, often by doing something they’ve never done before, or through a model they haven’t used before.
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PwO is a technical consultancy that specializes in 0->1 product development and technology enablement in complex stakeholder environments, frequently touching government or the built environment, and often related to innovation and/or user experience-first initiatives.