Drive Innovation Forward
with Agile Methodology

From ideation to market launch, our agile, sprint-based approach accelerates innovation while ensuring a perfect market fit.

Why Agile Innovation?

In today’s fast-paced market, innovation requires more than just great ideas; it demands agility, speed, and adaptability. Valen’s Agile Innovation services are designed to guide your business through each stage of innovation, from early exploration to scaling up, using an iterative, sprint-based process. Our proven approach ensures your organization captures deep consumer insights, enabling strategic decisions that drive impactful results and unique solutions.

Whether you’re developing a new product, testing a concept, or planning a market launch, our agile innovation process delivers insights and clarity at every step, making innovation efficient, effective, and aligned with your business goals.

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Our Agile Innovation Process

Our approach uses agile principles from software development, applying them to innovation through a series of short, targeted sprints. This iterative process keeps the consumer voice at the core of every decision, enhancing product relevance and fit. Each stage of our process is designed to reduce uncertainty, accelerate speed-to-market, and guide you toward impactful innovation.

Our innovation process includes four key stages:

  • Discover: Identify growth opportunities and develop early-stage concepts through exploration and ideation.
  • Learn: Use agile market learning with concept visualization and testing to refine ideas and deepen insights.
  • Validate: Conduct product testing to ensure market fit, continuously refining the product based on feedback.
  • Grow: Build a go-to-market plan with roadmap development and messaging that positions the product for success.

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Services for Every Stage of Innovation

Early-Stage Exploration

Uncover growth opportunities and potential ideas with targeted consumer insights and strategic concept development.

Agile Market Testing

Test models and concepts through custom studies, prototype visualizations, and feedback collection to refine ideas effectively.

Product Optimization

Validate your concept with real users to hone its market fit, iterating based on product and consumer testing.

Go-to-Market Strategy

Develop a robust launch plan, backed by a strategic roadmap and messaging that resonates with your target market.

Why Choose Valen Group for Agile Innovation?

Proven Agile Methodology

Our sprint-based approach accelerates development and drives clarity at each stage of innovation.

Consumer-Driven Insights

We capture insights directly from your target market, ensuring your product addresses real needs and preferences.

End-to-End Support

From initial ideation to market launch, our team provides comprehensive support and expertise.

Success Probability

By iterating based on consumer feedback, we ensure your product is positioned for a successful market entry.

Explore Our Practice AreaS

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STRATEGY CONSULTING

Valen’s Strategy Consulting Practice provides fact-based, strategic analysis that guides strategic decisions and creates a competitive advantage.

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INNOVATION

Valen delivers innovation using a proven agile, sprint-based approach that provides iterative learning to improve depth of insight, decision-making, and speed-to-market.
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BRAND LICENSING

As a Top 25 global licensing firm, we work with brand owners and producers to build long-term, sustainable programs generating multi-million dollars in royalty revenue.
 

How Our Concept Development Process Works

Define and Draft

Using empathy and a best-practice framework, we draft initial concept statements that clearly communicate key ideas.

Visualize the Concept

Through sketches, diagrams, and mock-ups, we bring the concept to life, making it tangible for stakeholders and consumers.

Shape and Refine

We integrate quantitative research and agile market learning to refine concepts, validate market fit, and build differentiation.

Launch Strategy

We prepare go-to-market strategies that ensure compelling messaging and align with consumer expectations, positioning your product for maximum impact.

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