KI

Kartchner
Innovation

A boutique strategy and transformation consultancy.

01
Brand +

Our Belief

We believe brands are mental shortcuts to ideas, and those ideas should be intentional, simple, clear, relevant, and meaningful.

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Toolkit

Brand Strategy Workshop

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Building on the foundations workshop, we look at customer, capabilities, and brand messaging to ensure the brand positioning in the market is intentional, relevant, precise, and meaningful. Discover the story your business should be telling.

When to Engage

  • M&A — clarifying combined brand
  • Product Launch
  • Portfolio Refresh
  • Brand Refresh
  • New Marketing or Company Leadership
  • Negative Market Feedback

Outcomes

  • Customer Experience
  • User Experience
  • Marketing Clarity

For

  • Private Equity
  • General Managers
  • Marketing Leaders
  • Product Leaders
02
Growth +

Our Belief

We believe customer understanding drives growth. Our foundations workshop uncovers customer opportunity and is the basis for much of our work.

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Foundations Strategy Workshop

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Inspired by leading innovation, strategy, and design thinking theories and practices, our signature Foundations Strategy Workshop produces customer insights and understanding framed against organizational strengths and capabilities. It is a powerful tool for aligning organizational strategy, capabilities, and communications.

When to Engage

  • Private Equity
  • Strategy Refresh
  • Growth Targets
  • Marketing

Outcomes

  • New Product Innovation
  • Product Strategy
  • Sales Strategy

For

  • General Managers
  • Product Managers
  • Sales Leaders
  • Marketing Leaders
03
Simplification +

Our Belief

We believe simplification creates momentum, and by reducing unnecessary complexity we improve outcomes.

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Simplification Workshop

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This workshop is designed to bring focus to complexity in a product portfolio. Simplification creates momentum by removing friction, complexity, and processes that slow down operations, complicate marketing and sales, and can befuddle customers.

When to Engage

  • Private Equity
  • M&A
  • Operational Complexity
  • Product Complexity

Outcomes

  • Operational Efficiency
  • Marketing Clarity
  • Sales Enablement
  • Product Focus

For

  • Private Equity
  • General Managers
  • Operations Leaders
  • Marketing & Product
04
AI +

Our Belief

We believe in designing technology to serve us, rather than the other way around. Our AI practice explores how to intelligently and practically apply advances in AI.

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AI Exploration

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An exploratory benchmarking that determines how AI is being used either at your company, or by your customers. The result, a framework that enables user adoption benchmarking and provides insights to leaders about where AI is most effective for their organization.

When to Engage

  • AI Strategy Review
  • Digital Transformation
  • Efficiency Initiatives

Outcomes

  • Efficiency
  • Strategy
  • IT Alignment

For

  • General Managers
  • IT Leaders
05
Data Analytics +

Our Belief

We believe in being data driven, both qualitatively and quantitatively, in every activity of our practice.

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Toolkit

Data Analytics Projects

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Project-based custom and standard data analytics. Example projects include establishing customer rankings for account based marketing, clustering for customer segmentation, inventory health analysis, and pricing analysis.

When to Engage

  • Growth Strategy
  • Sales Optimization
  • Inventory Management
  • Pricing Review

Outcomes

  • Data Insights
  • Customer Intelligence
  • Pricing Strategy

For

  • Private Equity
  • General Managers
  • Finance Leaders
  • Sales Leaders