Introducing...
Hi, I'm Jon - I lead Chimnie, the future of real estate and Step Zero, our data innovation consultancy. Formerly, I was PwC's British Entrepreneur of the Year, a serial startup founder & ran Google's skunkworks 'Data for Innovation' team, harnessing data science to power customer-centric new product development. My aim is to study dysfunctional market dynamics through listening and invent fixes.
Sharing: Drop me a line if you need a speaker on data-driven innovation. Otherwise, I design & run an immersive "Smart Innovation" retreat in Virtual Reality for the leaders of some of the world's largest companies; if you need provocation... you won't be disappointed. Senior innovation leaders from Nike, Coca Cola, Pfizer, Caterpillar & Philips join us to candidly talk about their insight, learnings & failures. Ask for Alina at Gemba if you want to join us.
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Next VR retreat: December 2022 (afternoons)
Pricing: £5,995 + VAT per participant
Doing: My team at Step Zero are a group of listeners who help clients to identify and implement disruptive new uses of data. To date we have worked with leaders at organisations including: The UN, Nike, J&J, Tesco, Kraft Heinz, Unilever, AB Inbev, Pfizer & Adidas - to bring decades of experience in data, branding, innovation & product design to tackle your biggest challenges. Let's grab a virtual coffee to get started.
VR, Zoom & Live Events
I recently had the pleasure to collaborate with the talented team at The Leadership Network; leading a small pilot group to develop & test their custom #vrmasterclass environment. Check out https://t.co/dycr9aSpdD to get a taste of the future of conferencing. pic.twitter.com/sfsmlgsdxq
— Jonathan Francis (@thanfrancis) November 1, 2020
Philosophy
Having worked alongside hundreds of product owners around the world, it seems that most innovation leaders share common challenges:
- Reducing waste and increasing efficiency
- Organisational cost-cutting
- Eliminating silos
- Identifying optimal opportunities
- Building an inclusive creative culture
- Cutting project failure
- Getting to customers faster
- Refining a product portfolio
- Quantifying value-added
- Becoming a profit-center
For close to a decade, I have worked with leaders to resolve every challenge in this list through simple standardisation & modularisation of the innovation process. We call it Step Zero - the place that any leader can begin, before they start building.
This begins by dividing the innovation cycle into three phases: Input, Transform, Output. At each phase, we optimise for maintaining process momentum, goal alignment, and stakeholder confidence. Transparency, data & measurement are core to each stage, to inform optimal choices.
Step Zero is designed for organisations in any industry and of any size, to be implemented gradually - with minimal disruption. If you're ready to learn more, visit stepzero.co.uk
Ice breakers
I represented the British Skydiving Team at 2 World Cups.
I played for the British Chess Team at 1 World Championship.
I speak French & Italian well enough to run a project.
German/Spanish well enough to run for a coffee.
And Python/R/SQL well enough to:
theory = ["somewhat", "randomly", "share", "about", "this", \
"new", "secret", "concerning", "string", "theory"]
reality = [x[1] for x in enumerate(theory) if \
x[0]%2==0 and x[0]!=0]
print(' '.join(reality))
Step One: Speaker Pack
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