We help corporate leaders grow through disruption.

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Innovation is critical for future growth but there are new risks, challenges and uncertainties in adjacent spaces compared to your core business.

Your strategy, design and engineering teams all innovate. But in these new and changing spaces, your teams’ traditional industry expertise might be limiting your opportunities.

How you define, design and deliver innovation makes all the difference between failure and success.

That’s where we come in...

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how to innovate

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Innovation Capability

We helped a leading brand build on experience from non-competing innovation leaders to understand how it could succeed in IoT and connected products.

where to focus

Innovation Strategy

We challenged limiting assumptions and unblocked strategic barriers to help a leading consumer brand find competitive advantage to enter a new category.

what to create

Design & Development

We defined a new smart city concept and our multi-disciplinary design and engineering team rapidly brought the award winning new product system to market.

dont just take our word for it...

“This has been incredibly useful. I am filled with confidence knowing we have the best partners supporting us on our innovation process.”
Head of R&DPentland Brands.
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"It was like being able to see the future before we started our journey! Without doubt this is now one of the biggest opportunities we have as a brand.”
Sr Director of R&D CamelBak
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"This team should be your number one innovation partner. The work introduced completely new concepts from outside our industry and resulted in six new innovations, one we’ve already implemented.” 
Marketing ManagerAgSpace
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“Ignite quickly created a sleek and professional demonstration allowing customers to experience our proposed product before we invested in creating it. The result has been crucial to attracting both customers and capital.”
CEOCelsius
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“We’re absolutely delighted with what you’ve done for us, there are new insights we’d never have uncovered ourselves, ideas we can act on today and some breakthrough opportunities that we’ve never seen on products like this before.”
Project ManageriFIT Health and Fitness
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"It was very inspiring and motivating to everyone on our team, empowering us to drive change faster as we deliver Kimberly-Clark’s purpose of Better Care for a Better World".
R&D DirectorKimberly-Clark
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“Our collaboration with Ignite Exponential has not only enhanced our insights but also fostered a fertile ground for idea generation.”
Innovation DirectorKlöckner Pentaplast
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“As well as giving us greater confidence on direction we’re taking, your team really challenged and inspired our perceptions of what our product should look and feel like. We’re now in a much better position to grow, thank you!”
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who we are

Ignite Exponential is an expert partner for corporate innovation leaders helping them to grow their business through adjacent and transformational innovation. We are a catalyst for your internal teams and translate strategic problems into actionable solutions – not just another report. We particularly focus on new products and experiences enabled by connected/IoT technologies and business models. Our work helps leaders to accelerate innovation, increase return on investment and reduce the risk of failure.

Alan cucknell
strategic innovation
Emma Plumtree
market research
Cleo Higgins
Marketing
Andrew Wynne
Head of Design
Steve Fitz
Technology Lead
Nick Thornton
Design & Packaging

We are a part of specialist design and engineering consultancy, Plextek, which has been developing IoT and connected products and systems for more than 30 years. Our combined teams ensure your innovation translates through to de-risked and viable product development, and on to manufacture.

We are Partners

We’re an expert team with a track record across industries. We know there is no “one size fits all” for innovation and customise each collaboration to your specific need.

This means we complement your own team as a catalyst to make innovation happen.

We are TRANSLATORS

Our team is proudly multi-disciplinary bringing decades of strategic, marketing, technology and design experience from in-house corporate roles and consultancy.

This allows us to translate between functional silos and find the critical “red thread”.

We are Fresh

We’re not experts in your business.  We bring complementary experience from 100’s of previous innovation, strategy and design collaborations in other industries.

This allows us to spot limiting assumptions and provide the inspiration for creating your own success.

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Innovation partners for DISRUPTIVE INNOVATION & IoT

For innovation design and delivery...

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