design sprints

Home » Design Sprints

ADAPTOVATE helps teams develop solutions with the customer in mind.

Organisations operate with ever-changing customer demands and internal challenges. For organisations to meet these challenges and remain relevant, they must adjust quickly, respond to real-time feedback and adapt to market dynamics, or risk their customer experience and brand reputation.

ADAPTOVATE coaches team members to develop and test new ideas through Design Sprints to quickly address challenges and collaborate on business opportunities to improve outcomes.

ADAPTOVATE coaches how to use divergent thinking to explore new ideas and think “out of the box” to fuel creativity and innovation. We further coach our clients to build on this to use convergent thinking to decide which problems and solutions to put effort into.

ADAPTOVATE helps organisations make data-driven decisions by rapidly testing hypotheses with real users and applying learnings to reduce risk.

ADAPTOVATE coaches the development of customer-centric solutions by applying a human-centred approach to problem-solving. This approach helps businesses better understand customers’ needs and preferences, improving satisfaction and brand differentiation. This focus ensures that the resulting products or services are relevant and valuable to the end user.

Benefits of using Design Sprints

ADAPTOVATE supports organisations to improve their ability to quickly generate ideas and solutions and gain benefits, including:

Increased executive team alignment on what is a good and right product for a dynamic market allows for fast-tracking of the business case.

Improved team innovation capability to deliver more exciting and relevant products faster

Improved decision-making driven by customer data and prototype learnings to deliver products and services that are differentiated from competitors.

Reduced cost of development through controlled testing with fast validation to drive faster investment decisions with low upfront spend.

Working with clients.

We have worked with clients across diverse functions, including procurement, sales and external affairs, to deliver tangible benefits:

50% time saved in creating prototypes at a global auto business

50% reduction time in expense reporting & reimbursement process at a global resource company

100 pain points incorporated into a single action plan across 4 countries for a global energy company

Case Studies, Design Sprints, Design Thinking, Energy and Mining, Objective and Key Results (OKRs), Oil and Gas, Operational Excellence

Case Study – Design Sprints for Global Energy Company

ADAPTOVATE led a Design Sprint over five days with 15 representatives from four different countries for a Global Energy company. Read the case study here.

Agile, Agile Coaching, Automotive, Business Agility Consulting & Training, Case Studies, Consumer, Design Sprints, Design Thinking, Product Design and Management

Case Study – Digital Prototype Sprints for Automotive Company

The marketing and finance arm of a leading global automotive manufacturer was seeking to prototype an interactive, digital application to showcase platform functionality and train end-users

Better Business Models, Business Capability Mapping, Case Studies, Design Sprints, Design Thinking, Digital Transformation, Financial Services, Insurance, Not-for-profit, Operational Excellence

Case Study – Accelerated Agile Maturity at Health Insurer

At health insurer, ADAPTOVATE helped the technology division deliver a platform refresh. We defined the strategy, architecture and roadmap and built internal capability

Agile, Agile Coaching, Agile Methodology, Frameworks & Models, Case Studies, Design Sprints, Design Thinking, Education

Case Study – Design Sprints at High School

We worked with an Australian High School to run a Design Sprint in a day as part of our Pledge 1% programme.

Design Sprints, Design Thinking, Education, Not-for-profit, Pledge 1 Percent

Teach For America

ADAPTOVATE is proud to support Pledge 1% and Teach for America (TFA). We faciliated Design Sprints to begin improving staff retention.

Case Studies, Design Sprints, Design Thinking, Education, Pledge 1 Percent

Loreto Normanhust, Pledge 1 Percent 2021

Situation Loreto Normanhurst, an independent school for girls is running a Design Sprint program at…

Design Sprints, Design Thinking

5 Key Benefits of Design Sprints

A Design Sprint rapidly answers critical business questions in a highly collaborative, 5-day workshop. We are looking at the key benefits of design sprints in this article.

Agile, Agile Coaching, Banking, Case Studies, Customer Journey Mapping, Design Sprints, Financial Services, Human-Centred Design, Operational Excellence, Solve Complex Problems

Human-Centred Design Case Study

Our client, an international bank, had embarked on a transformation with the aim to respond more quickly to rapidly evolving customer needs; enhance business value; increase productivity; and improve employee engagement.

Find out how ADAPTOVATE can help your organisation better ideate solutions.

CONTACT US