Sketchin

Venture design

Shaping new businesses to meet future market challenges.

Sketchin - Venture Design - Waiting for a future moment

We help organisations explore opportunities arising from new technologies, behaviours and markets by creating radically new businesses lines that help companies flourish and keep them competitive, ready for future challenges.

Design for business innovation

In an ever-changing landscape where finding ways to stay relevant is crucial for organizations, we apply design thinking and lean methodologies to help explore new markets, identify ventures which will enhance growth- even discontinuous ones - launch new businesses and turn ideas into profitable business ventures.

Venture design thus meets three major goals:

  • Empowering companies to be responsive to future opportunities by imagining and choosing their own future;
  • Building a portfolio of innovative ideas while creating an internal team capable of experimenting with new ways of working and different operational models;
  • Reducing time between the creation of a new business and its arrival on the market, by exploiting the advantages of an iterative-incremental approach that is able to quickly incorporate market responses.

Main customers

Sky
Fastweb
Cerved
Banca Mediolanum
RePower
Volkswagen Financial Services
Axpo
LoopPay

Our program

01.

Discovering and exploring new market opportunities

We create an integrated core team made up of members of our team and a group of people selected by the client. We bring together different skills and personalities to understand preferred future scenarios, challenges and business opportunities. We define the challenges our clients want to face and map out the steps to fulfil their vision.

Possible activities
  • Core team creation
  • Business challenge definition
  • Action roadmap definition

02.

Conceiving and co-designing with users

We generate ideas together with end customers and market experts. We define value propositions and test them through low-fidelity prototypes to quickly assess operational and business impacts. The core team is responsible for assessing which ideas to develop in the following phase.

Possible activities
  • Exploration and generation workshops
  • Value proposition definition
  • Rapid prototyping and Proof of Concept (POC) creation

03.

Validating the business model

We develop the ideas with the greatest potential to understand market response, reduce failure risk and validate the solution. In parallel, we explore different business models by carrying out sustainability analysis, the results of which guide investment assessments.

Possible activities
  • Usability test and lean experiment validation
  • Business model analysis
  • Business vision definition
  • Strategic goal definition

04.

Preparing the market launch

The core team consolidates business cases and the strategies for entering the market, bringing to the decision-making tables all evidence needed to confirm their choices and initiate the "concept to launch".

Possible activities
  • Business strategy and vision consolidation
  • Market concept launch

01.

Discovering and exploring new market opportunities

02.

Conceiving and co-designing with users

03.

Validating the business model

04.

Preparing the market launch

We create an integrated core team made up of members of our team and a group of people selected by the client. We bring together different skills and personalities to understand preferred future scenarios, challenges and business opportunities. We define the challenges our clients want to face and map out the steps to fulfil their vision.

We generate ideas together with end customers and market experts. We define value propositions and test them through low-fidelity prototypes to quickly assess operational and business impacts. The core team is responsible for assessing which ideas to develop in the following phase.

We develop the ideas with the greatest potential to understand market response, reduce failure risk and validate the solution. In parallel, we explore different business models by carrying out sustainability analysis, the results of which guide investment assessments.

The core team consolidates business cases and the strategies for entering the market, bringing to the decision-making tables all evidence needed to confirm their choices and initiate the "concept to launch".

Possible activities
  • Core team creation
  • Business challenge definition
  • Action roadmap definition
Possible activities
  • Exploration and generation workshops
  • Value proposition definition
  • Rapid prototyping and Proof of Concept (POC) creation
Possible activities
  • Usability test and lean experiment validation
  • Business model analysis
  • Business vision definition
  • Strategic goal definition
Possible activities
  • Business strategy and vision consolidation
  • Market concept launch

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Learn more about our venture design and what we can do for your business.