// about. iMatch is an ideas company. We ignite business creativity and innovation in organizations that want to detonate ideas and different solutions in order to drive growth and improve business performance. We believe in focusing on the human side of innovation to do it, through our collaborative processes and our proprietary tools and methods. We purposefully remove people from their daily routines and bring them new perspectives, in order to spark creativity, revolutionary thinking and fresh new ideas. It’s innovation ignition by providing what the human mind crave in order to breakthrough.
// beliefs. At iMatch, we believe in the power of IDEAS. A simple but different and powerful idea can change the world. Today, no business can afford to say it doesn’t need innovation. Coming-up with new offer, new solutions and new business model is currently a must to thrive in the market. We also believe in PEOPLE. And we know that the HUMAN SIDE OF INNOVATION is the single most important and most forgotten factor to drive innovation to the core and to allow it to be systematically managed. And we believe in SPARKING creativity and action. It has been proven that people need the right stimulus, competences and motivation to excel in their performance. Companies often fail to incorporate this reality. We work with clients who genuinely want to think and do different, to innovate and grow. We help to release the creative potential of people, teams, companies and brands. We help establish a new set of competences, attitudes and behaviours towards innovation.
// how can we help. Do you have any kind of difficult business challenge to solve? Are you searching for new and different ideas for your brands? Do you want to engage your company in innovation? We can inspire you and your teams by providing strategic and creative stimulus, that can detonate the generation of disruptive ideas and different solutions to your brand/organization’s key-challenges. We can help you to embed innovation into the DNA, the culture and the day-to-day, by igniting passion for ideas, creativity drive, innovation competences and participation.
Our services are designed for a variety of innovation challenges and creative business challenges. However, projects are always custom-built to meet specific objectives. No two are just alike.
// services. The word “innovation” is used in many ways, and engagements that try to deliver it often have very different objectives and outcomes. Through our results-driven work, we have identified four distinct ways that we can help our clients realize their goals. immediate
structural INNOVATION SKILLS trainings for improving innovation competences
INNOVATION ACCELERATION fast-innovation proces from insight to project launch
INNOVATION ARCHITECTURE consulting to ‘fuel’ the human side of innovation
organisation level
individuals level
INNOVATION ENERGIZING events for building creative ‘momentum’/engagement
INNOVATION ENERGIZING is about building-up 驶momentum始, engagement and motivation for ideas and for the innovation process.
// innovation energizing. Do you want to have your people motivated and passionate about new ideas and solutions? Do you want to engage your people in the innovation process? With our innovation energizing services we work with you to craft compelling, energetic and powerful activities that build-up a ‘momentum’ for innovation to enthusiasm, motivate and engage people for thinking and doing different.
Sample projects:
‣ A media company wants to make everyone on the team, a catalyst for new ideas ‣ A telecom company wanted to energize their commercial team for finding opportunities and coming-up with different ideas to explore them
‣ A big master-franchise wants to build-up motivation and creativity from their franchisees
// examples. ROCHE developed a engaging innovationgame to promote a different way of “selling” and “relating” to doctors, resulting in a new enriched argumentation-dossier and a energized commercial team.
MEDIA CAPITAL MULTIMEDIA promoted the innovation-idols competition within their annual convention to foster teams creativity and motivate their search for new ideas.
INNOVATION SKILLS aims to develop people始s competences in innovation and creativity to help them think, behave and lead differently.
// innovation skills. Do people have the competences and skills to innovate more, better and faster? Is the leadership helping to explore all the creative juice of people? With our innovation skills programs we develop competences on innovation-related subjects, from leadership to creativity and creative collaboration. Our hands-on experiential programs promise to deliver tools, models and methods that enhance capabilities and abilities. Sample projects:
‣ A Advertising/PR agency wants to give a training on innovation and creativity to their commercial team
‣ A bakery-supplies company wants to empower ‘innovation ambassadors’ to promote innovation within their peers
‣ A FMCG company wants to give their managers new tools for understanding and leading around complex strategic challenges
// examples. INNOVATION BOOTCAMPS Immersive training programs designed to rise executives and managers competences in innovation, and to help them think, behave and lead differently.
INNOVATION WORKSHOPS Hands-on workshop programs designed to work on practical solutions for specific areas (Marketing, Branding, Experience, Sales, Point-of-Sale, etc..)
INNOVATION ACCELERATION projects are designed for a variety of creative business challenges and are custom-built to meet goals and objectives. No two are just alike.
// innovation acceleration. Do you have an opportunity – a new market, experience or trend – that you want to explore but aren’t sure how to get traction? Do you have a ‘wicked’ or ‘complex’ challenge in your business needing new and different solutions? We work with you to understand market dynamics and consumer needs, to craft a compelling, tangible strategy and to drive a clear, implementation roadmap. Sample projects:
‣ A FMCG company wants to develop a growth strategy around new products related to trends like healthy food options
‣ A premier hotelier wants to create an iconic guest experience to differentiate it from a sea of similar hotel brands, driving emotional connection and loyalty
‣ A leading retailer wants to extend its brand position through compelling service offerings designed to meet the needs of working women
// examples. NOBRE / CAMPOFRIO Fast-innovation program exploring three main avenues of future possibilities to reinvent the category and it´s own brands for bigger and better results
Results: • 70 people directly involved • 1450 Ideas • 145 Concepts developed • 50 Concepts to test
CSM - Bakery Supplies Innovation Acceleration program to generate ideas that improve customers businesses and lifes through new products, new services and relationship programs.
Results: • 40 people directly involved • 755 Ideas • 32 Concepts developed • 16 Projects
INNOVATION ARCHITECTURE consulting-projects are dedicated to the human-side of innovation by diagnosing, understanding and acting on individual, cultural, behavioral and organizational dimensions.
// innovation architecture. Do you need all conditions gathered among your people so that you are certain to have the best enviroment, mindset, skills, processes and tools in other to be or become a true innovator? Do you need to have a sustainable edge on the market? Starting with a multidimensional evaluation process including people’s innovation profile, innovation state of the art assessement, random extensive team members interviews and team meetings observation, to determine gaps and areas to focus, and then, helping individuals and teams to be aware of their needs and set in motion a plan so that a true innovation culture (with skills, mindset, activities, processes, tools and metrics) can emerge. Sample projects:
‣ A FMCG company wants to develop an innovation process extendend beyond the scope of product and marketing orientation
‣ An Industrial company already certified on the innovation process it is not happy with people’s contribution on the process and wants more pro-active participation
‣ A Telecom Company that wants to install a complete new innovation process from scratch
// examples. STONYFIELD FARM Designed a simple but powerful process to sistematize the frontend of innovation and idea generation througout the company.
CSM Developed a innovation process with innovation 驶ambassadors始 and specific innovation mechanisms, rituals and measurements.
// some clients and endorsers. We have designed and led several programs, workshops and sessions with very respected brands and companies from Portugal and abroad. Who better than the ones that experienced our services to testify and endorse us?
“iMatch marked a clear before-and-after in our company. We have now a very powerful pipeline for the next years to come and results are evident. Besides we have now a more engaged team and we developed a culture for ideas.” iberian marketing manager, B2B company
“It was definitely the best project that I’ve participated as far as I can remember. The process was great and the results so impressive that we started implementation before the end of the project.” marketing director, telecom company
“It was absolutely essential for us as a company to have these iMatch sessions to provoke paradigm shift to solve our key-challenges. After experiencing the whole process, it was mind-blowing to see the power of its impact on the results produced.” marketing manager, FMCG multinational
“We got so much value out of the opportunity to remove our assumptions, suspend our thinking and move beyond our current systems. It is great to explore outside the boundaries of our work environment and take risks with the ideas we came up with.” country manager, FMCG multinational
“Innovative philosophy and methodologies, from what I’ve seen so far in this kind of companies. Besides it was a great experience to work in and the results are there to show it.” sales manager, Pharmaceutical Company
“The process was really inspiring! It took us outside of our everyday ambients and themes in the search of new insights and ideas, and it was impressive to see the results: More ideas, better ideas and faster! Not in a million internal brainstorming of ours we could reach the same solutions.” co-founder, Technological Company
“I must confess that after the iMatch workshop I became more confident, open and aware on my ideas-hunting. Everyday I search for new stuff, I ask more questions, I explore new territories and, most of all, I enjoy thinking and doing things differently.” workshop participant
“This experience was very profound and very powerful. It made us think way beyond our norms and find new ways of doing things. We feel now constantly challenged to come up with more creative ways to do stuff” bootcamp participant
// other iMatch stuff. iMatch want to ignite ideas in the civil society and inspire people individually to change themselves and the world. That’s why we promote several non-profit events and gatherings that aim to make a difference.
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Like Minds is a series of social coffee morning gatherings with a very simple premise: a bunch of curious, engaging people get together and talk about anything that interests them. The coffee is sponsored and it's generally a pretty interesting hour or so. There are Like Mind coffee mornings all over the world but we organise LikeMind Portugal. who: people like you what: an opportunity to enjoy coffee and conversation why: because drinking good coffee with likeminded people is fun when: the third friday of every month (just about) where: all over the world how: started by piers and noah, carried out by likeminds around the world
// contacts. Portugal | Spain | Denmark 1st try: +351 93 847 00 13 2nd try: +351 91 847 00 13 Then try: +351 21 412 01 69 or send us a mail to: info@imatch.pt or even a fax to: +351 21 412 02 04Â Portugal Office: Miraflores Office Center, Av das TĂşlipas, nr. 6 - 13C, 1495-048 Miraflores, Portugal
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