Activation

 

Execute tangible solutions within the prioritized opportunity to deliver successful go-to-market brand, communications, product and pack designs.

 

So you’ve mapped your landscape, identified and prioritized future opportunities, and developed robust and innovative strategies to take them to market. We don’t just bask in the glory of building ideas and selling them into your company – we help bring them to life to activate the market.

 

Delivering upon the opportunity

We bring the opportunities to life as disruptively as the opportunities themselves through brand, communications, products and pack designs, developing the designs based on insights gathered throughout the process. Each design is creatively developed to ensure that it captures the opportunity – the developed solutions are desirable to the target market, embody the brand, and are technically feasible within the launch-time.

 

Executing the vision

We apply our innovation practice to create highly innovative designs and campaigns that touch consumers in the most meaningful ways, ensuring maximum impact and acceleration of adoption.

 

We scrutinize each design based upon feasibility of total design cost, and the value to benefit equation. We intensely refine the final concept, and collaborate with our clients and manufacturers to ensure technical feasibility, use of appropriate manufacturing methods and material selection.

 

Our experienced design team is at the forefront of sustainable best practice and use this understanding across the design process.

 

All these disciplines are brought together to deliver consumer delight and exemplify
brand values.

 

Our award-winning designs meet, and often exceed, your targets allowing you to grow your business.

 

"NewEdge quickly grasped the technical issues that made our project unique and identified the design issues that allowed us to target an untapped niche market."

- CEO, Storage Software and Hardware Firm

Opportunity Toolbox


Trends

We understand the market changes affecting your business. Utilizing our global reach, our expert analysts seek out emerging seed trends and correlate these to map out how they will impact your business. In addition we publish a monthly trends publication, Antennae, that explores global innovation and lifestyle trends.

Market landscaping

We explore the extremities of your market. Our research specialists can ascertain all the direct and indirect competitors in your market, identifying the success and failure models, highlighting where the white spaces lie.

Ecosystem / consumer insights

We uncover the purchase drivers and barriers of your target market, as well as unearth your consumers’ unspoken / unmet needs, existing habits and compensatory behaviors. Through the facilitation of focus groups, surveys and ethnographic research we understand the needs of your consumers, and anyone who influences the value chain.

Workshops

Our facilitators run a number of different workshops to develop opportunities with you.  

Opportunity Storming™ is our proprietary method of expanding identified opportunity spaces and populating them with big ideas in a collaborative manner with you, relevant SMEs, and even consumers. The end result is a refined list of robust opportunities ready to be visualized and tested.

Commercial innovation / brand strategy workshops seek to engage internal stakeholders in exploring and defining your brand in an effort to capture the essence of your company, products and services. Our brand team looks to enhance your brand, or help you create new propositions, including naming sessions.

Visualization

We understand the importance of visualization and the positive results that a clear concept can bring to your business. Our talented designers can bring your ideas to life. Our visualizations are produced to the appropriate level to sell your vision internally and externally (sketch renders through to photo-realistic visuals).

Opportunity cases

We build a compelling business case for markets that don’t yet exist, based upon a clear understanding of the market and your brand. Our professional business strategists form a compelling argument for new opportunities for you to innovate within, including market sizing and key business attributes.

Building design executions

We can work with you to develop a great idea and successfully take it to market. Our experienced design team layers on our technical expertise to develop refined marcomms (style guides, websites, logos), products (CE, FMCG) and packs.