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.
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:
Uncover growth opportunities and potential ideas with targeted consumer insights and strategic concept development.
Test models and concepts through custom studies, prototype visualizations, and feedback collection to refine ideas effectively.
Validate your concept with real users to hone its market fit, iterating based on product and consumer testing.
Develop a robust launch plan, backed by a strategic roadmap and messaging that resonates with your target market.
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.
Valen’s Strategy Consulting Practice provides fact-based, strategic analysis that guides strategic decisions and creates a competitive advantage.
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.