Become a 5 Ways to Innovate Partner
Claim your seat at the grownup’s table with our tools and methods that have been developed over 30+ years at some of the world’s most successful companies.
What is the 5 Ways to Innovate Partner program?
We’ve spent decades honing our corporate innovation tools and methods and we believe they’re too good to keep to ourselves. Our certified partners have full access to our IP and are able to deliver our services to their clients in order to open up new areas of business that were previously out of reach.
Who partners with us?
5 Ways to Innovate partners typically come from the categories of consulting firms, digital and innovation agencies, and boutique consultants.
What do they get?
We train and certify partners on our methods, enabling them to sell and deliver advanced innovation services to their corporate clients.
Why do they partner with us?
5 Ways to Innovate is a proven system developed by a Facebooker and a Googler, who bring consulting techniques from Accenture and Deloitte.
10x
Revenue Multiplier
Our partners are able to sell up to
10x worth of services in pull-through revenue as an output of delivering a 5 Ways to Innovate engagement. Think of us as your foot in the door to sell more of what you do best.
Do Agencies Deserve a Seat at the Grownup’s Table?
Our system enables agencies to bring consulting firm level innovation services to their clients, extending their influence across the C-suite and shifting from responding to briefs to writing them.
How our Agency partners use our system to rise above the brief
In our experience leading both digital agencies and consulting firms, we’ve found that the typical agency brief is at the end of a very long food chain of decision making. The ability to implement true strategic input at this point is limited; even when there are great ideas that could elevate things, it’s difficult to change course once key business decisions have been made and committed within client organisations.
5 Ways to Innovate agency partners are able to successfully use our corporate innovation system to elevate the conversation above the brief and inject their strategic inputs at a more appropriate level. This in turn allows these agencies to extend their remit into new areas of the C-suite that were previously inaccessible.
How it works
We train and certify our partners to generate new innovation opportunities through the use of our proprietary system. We charge a licensing fee on the Inspire and Plan stages, which in turn generate new Deliver projects that are suited to the executional capabilities of our selected partners. They own all revenue from projects generated in the Deliver stage onwards.
1/ Inspire
Help client leadership teams gain buy-in to take action on innovation
Speaking engagements
Introductory workshop
2/ Plan
Build an optimal innovation portfolio & playbook to execute
Innovation Portfolio Workshop
100 day playbooks
We train our partners to deliver Inspire and Plan services by licensing the use of our IP.
3/ Deliver
Pull-through projects to execute the innovation initiatives using core agency services like design thinking and tech delivery.
100% of pull-through revenue is owned by our partners.
5 Ways to Innovate engagements generate 10x opportunities for our partners without any fees.
What do Partners get?
Sales Kit
Our complete toolkit to inspire change at your client organisation. Includes sales decks, philosophy and the underlying secret-sauce behind our framework.
Assessment tools
Access to our proprietary assessment and diagnostic tools that help you benchmark an organisation’s innovation efforts and present a current state assessment.
Workshops
Our entire suite of workshop formats that guide companies through the process of developing a cohesive innovation strategy and arriving at their optimal innovation portfolio.
Scorecards
Spreadsheets that are built to simplify the analysis process, taking inputs from the assessment and workshops and developing quantifiable recommendations to present back to your client.
100 Day Playbooks
5x Playbooks to guide your work to help clients get their innovation initiatives up and running once you’ve delivered your recommendations.
Training & Certification
Every team who joins us as a partner receives an intensive 3 day training program where we share our end-to-end methods, and once complete you join our directory as a badged delivery partner.
How do we support our partners?
The 5 Ways to Innovate brand platform supports our partners to attract new clients, win new projects, and open up new areas of business in existing accounts. We’ve worked hard to build our reputation, and our partners can share in the goodwill we’ve built via:
New business leads passed from us to you
Exposure and search-ability in our partner directory
Exposure through our social channels
Speaking and publicity opportunities at conferences and events in which we regularly participate
Interested in becoming a partner? Let us know
We understand you have a lot on your plate running and growing your business. Get in touch with us and we’ll set up a time to talk more and explore whether becoming a 5 Ways to Innovate partner is the right fit for your specific goals.
Frequently Asked Questions
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We only partner with professional services firms who are able to credibly sell and deliver innovation consulting to their clients. These business typically look like:
Consulting firms
Digital agencies
Boutique innovation consultants
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Becoming a 5 Ways to Innovate partner is completely free. However, we do charge a one time fee of $1,200 USD for the 3 day training course and we take a 30% licensing fee on any projects delivered using our IP.
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In developing the 5 Ways to Innovate business, one of our core principles is to benefit the innovation ecosystem. In order to help 1000 corporates, we need a network of partners who can reach more client organisations than we ever could alone.
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Our business model is simple: we take a 30% licensing fee for the use of our IP on each 5 Ways to Innovate engagement, which is typically in the range of $45k USD. All pull-through projects you sell off the back of this initial engagement don’t incur any type of fee.
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Each professional services firm is different, but in our experience a 10x services multiplier is a reasonable assumption.
So hypothetically, if you delivered a $45k 5 Ways to Innovate engagement to a client, you would expect to sell an additional $450k worth of services to that client in pull-through revenue.
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5 Ways to Innovate is a unique innovation system developed entirely by us.
By delivering our innovation portfolio workshop upfront, the outputs are projects that let you sell and deliver additional work using your core methodologies.
There is no crossover between the projects that use our IP and those that use your traditional methods or processes.