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Innovation Advisory for Corporates

Most corporates are not short on ideas. They are short on a reliable way to turn ideas into measurable results.

Innovation often gets stuck because:

Strategy is unclear

so teams chase too many themes

Decisions are slow

so momentum dies

Risk & compliance get involved too late

so work gets blocked

Pilots happen

but nothing scales into the core business

Innovation governance sits in tension with existing structures

so there's no clear innovation model for decision-making

We help you build an internal innovation system that delivers outcomes without breaking governance.

Who We Are

Kieno Kammies

Co-founder of Innovation City Cape Town. Works with corporates, scale-ups, founders, and investors to turn relationships into business outcomes. Brings a practical view of what it takes to move ideas from concept to execution.

Dr Rael Futerman

Doctor of Design, specialising in Design Thinking. Helps teams cut through complexity, get close to real customer needs, and translate insights into clear decisions and practical solutions.

Together, we bring strategy, design, and execution into one approach, built for corporate environments.

What We Deliver

Clear Innovation Strategy

Linked to your business priorities

Practical Operating Model

For how internal innovation should run

Prioritised Pipeline

Initiatives backed by evidence, not opinions

Simple Governance

Decision points so ideas move safely and quickly

Capability Transfer

Enabling your teams to work independently without consultants

How We Work

We use three proven tools as one system.

Design Thinking

We start with the people you serve and the teams doing the work. This helps you identify the real problems worth solving, avoid building nice-to-haves, and define what success looks like in measurable terms.

Effectual Thinking (Entrepreneurial Thinking)

Corporate teams often wait for perfect information, big budgets, or permission from ten stakeholders. Effectual Thinking helps teams move under uncertainty by starting with what you already have, making smart trade-offs, and using partnerships to reduce cost and risk.

Hypothesis-Based Quick Experiments

Instead of debating ideas in meetings, we test them. We turn assumptions into clear hypotheses, run fast experiments, and use evidence to decide what to stop, what to improve, and what to scale.

Outcomes Corporates Care About

Faster Decisions

Fewer dead pilots and wasted cycles

Reduced Waste

Stop weak ideas early before they consume resources

Better Cross-Functional Execution

Across business, tech, legal, and risk

Clear Pathway

From insight to build to scale

Teams That Can Innovate Repeatedly

Not just once, but as a repeatable capability

If you want innovation that is measurable, governed, and repeatable, we should talk.

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