As technology advances and business models undergo a reconfiguration, industrial and technology companies face increasingly complex challenges given their position in value chains and the B2B nature of their relationships. The upheaval and uncertainty caused by this brings with them both new opportunities and threats, from digitization to solution selling and sustainability, which leaders must continually assess and evaluate.

Innosight partners with companies across industrial and technology sectors to define growth strategies that adapt to evolving ecosystems, anticipate and plan for disruptive change, and innovate to seize opportunities for new growth. We collaborate with business leaders to interpret and anticipate market trends, uncover and mitigate threats from non-traditional competitors, and achieve visionary long-term goals by adopting a future-back view of markets.  

Our expertise in guiding organizations to re-examine how they view their customers and capabilities through the lenses of their jobs-to-be-done and business model innovation enables the discovery and cultivation of new growth areas. This can help organizations ensure they appropriately frame and are ready to achieve their growth goals, adapt in light of digitization and sustainability, shift their business model from product-centric to solution-centric, navigate the global realignment of supply chains, and respond to increasingly high customer expectations. 

Featured Insights
Future-Back Strategy:
Bridge Vision and Execution for High-Stakes Decisions
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Discover an updated Future-Back approach helping companies sharpen priorities and accelerate transformation with clarity and confidence. Learn more.

 

Is Incrementalism
Holding Back Your AI Strategy?
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AI can do more than optimize—it can transform. Dual transformation can help you meet the moment and own the future. Download the HBR article.

 

 

Innovation Within Reach: Balancing Growth and Cost Discipline

With a different approach to innovation strategy, companies can navigate these dual objectives and stay future-oriented. Read the article.

 

Expertise

Markets We Serve
  • Aerospace & Defense 

Anticipate and stay ahead of an evolving threat landscape, while maintaining agility amid blurring lines between governmental and commercial/private development.

  • Agriculture & Forestry

Seize opportunities like precision agriculture amid global challenges like food security, access, and affordability, quality, provenance, and sustainability. 

  • Automotive & Mobility

Navigate industry disruption and make strategic moves to win in mobility, autonomous driving, electrification, and connectivity. 

  • Energy & Utilities 

Navigate the energy transition while managing supply hurdles, ensuring affordability  for customers, and anticipating disruptive business model changes.

  • Materials & Chemicals 

Succeed with new materials and technology to meet evolving customer expectations while moving toward digitally enabled circular business models. 

  • Oil & Gas 

Rethink strategic investments within an uneven regulatory landscape, while growing traditional products into next-gen solutions.

Our Experience

We help industrial leaders set strategic direction, improve their innovation performance, and create the organizational capabilities needed to deliver today and transform for the future.

 

Airline Group Makes Innovation Work at Scale
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We helped a global airline group turn fragmented innovation into a unified strategy for competitive advantage. Facing rising customer expectations, new technologies, and sustainability pressures, we worked with company leaders to establish a centralized innovation office and refocus venture investments to scale impact across brands. Uncover the strategy behind the turnaround.

Dow Transforms Customer Engagement to Unlock Growth
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We helped Dow’s coating materials business build on its innovation leadership by deepening strategic partnerships with key customers. Through strategic relationship management, Dow reframed engagement around shared priorities and long-term opportunities for mutual growth. See how Dow is redefining customer engagement.

Industrial Company Develops New Enterprise Growth Platform

With a new CEO, an industrial group partnered with Innosight to diversify beyond its core businesses and build a long-term growth strategy. The company repositioned its portfolio around new industry platforms and used a future-back approach to guide transformation across businesses. Read the full impact story.

 Connect with our industrial practice.