Spirit & Mission:
Erehwon pursues Innovation with a relentless and unwavering passion. The name EREHWON in itself brings alive the spirit and purpose of what the organisation and its people stand for.
Read the name EREHWON backwards and what emerges is NOWHERE, break it up and it becomes NOW HERE.
From Nowhere to Now and Here, from Impossible to Possible and Hopelessness to Hope is the spirit & mission of Erehwon.
Read the name EREHWON backwards and what emerges is NOWHERE, break it up and it becomes NOW HERE.
From Nowhere to Now and Here, from Impossible to Possible and Hopelessness to Hope is the spirit & mission of Erehwon.
How we do it:
Erehwon has, over the last 20 years developed a path breaking methodology - 'Orbit-shifting Innovation'.
Orbit-shifting Innovation is built from three powerful Insight sources:
- Cutting edge insights drawn from over 200 Breakthrough Innovation missions that we have lead and facilitated. These missions are spread across industries and sectors. The spectrum of insight includes Telecom Information Technology, FMCG, Consumer Durables, Energy, Banking, Insurance and also Social Enterprises and Government.
- Deep insight into leadership mindsets that spur or limit innovation. This is a result of our Gravity Diagnostics and Strategic transformational interventions with Top leadership teams from across 150 organisations over 14 years.
- Orbit-shifting Innovation is also a result of first hand research and insight into emerging innovations across sectors. Our focused and ongoing research has uncovered over 150 innovators and what differentiates them.
When do you need it:
You need orbit shifting innovation when:
- The urge and the need is not just to replicate and adapt but to create the dramatically new.
- You are stepping into the unknown.
- The outcome expectations are not incremental, but a quantum leap.
- Transfer of best practices is not enough.
Our uniqueness:
Erehwon's uniqueness lies in its capacity to relate to and move easily between the three mental models that impact growth: Business mental models, Organisational mental models and leadership mental models. Traditionally, the consulting world is pointed in how it approaches these three mental models. Strategy consultants deal only with Business, while OD consultants address only Organisation Design, and Leadership consultants work only on Leadership Coaching.
Innovation demands an addressal of all three: business, organisation and leadership, and that too at a mental model level – What appears to be a strategy issue may actually be the mindset of one critical leader. Innovation initiatives can get derailed because leadership mindsets are safe keeping or because the structure of the organisation ensures that the 'Discovery, Development and Deployment’ stages of innovation are dissociated and become sequential silos... resulting in dilution.
Erehwon has the expertise to intervene seamlessly across all three mental models, to unlock problems and find hidden opportunities for Orbit-shifting Innovation. In doing so, it is breakthrough innovation and growth that triumph.
Innovation demands an addressal of all three: business, organisation and leadership, and that too at a mental model level – What appears to be a strategy issue may actually be the mindset of one critical leader. Innovation initiatives can get derailed because leadership mindsets are safe keeping or because the structure of the organisation ensures that the 'Discovery, Development and Deployment’ stages of innovation are dissociated and become sequential silos... resulting in dilution.
Erehwon has the expertise to intervene seamlessly across all three mental models, to unlock problems and find hidden opportunities for Orbit-shifting Innovation. In doing so, it is breakthrough innovation and growth that triumph.
We play three roles:
As a Consultant:
We co-create a customised path to activate, multiply and embed Orbit-shifting Innovation; determined by the context of the organisation, the business it runs, and the need for innovation. The route a group company could take is to institutionalise 'Breakthrough Innovation Capabilities' across all companies while the route a growing local company takes could be to take on giants; where urgent breakthroughs that create mega impact in the market are more critical than an organisation wide architecture for innovation. An MNC that is looking at creating global breakthroughs would seek to embed a process for Breakthrough Innovation that can generate breakthrough insights across all geographies.As a Lead-Facilitator:
Erehwon partners organisations in converting their innovation aspiration into reality. Whether by partnering end-to-end on an innovation mission - from creation of the challenge, to arriving at a breakthrough proposition and to taking the proposition to market or by helping an organisation unleash an orbit-shift by confronting, recognising and breaking through the existing mental model boundaries. We facilitate the innovation journey of an organisation so that the desired orbit-shift outcome becomes a reality.As a Developer:
We create cutting edge 'learning, coaching and facilitation' interventions so that an organisation can 'multiply its capacity to innovate'. Therefore, innovation managers who want to be 'Innovation Facilitators' in their organisations are enabled to handle end to end innovation, or leaders aspiring to do more by being innovative leaders can leverage the Erehwon Innovation Coach to transform results and transform their teams.