Strategy, innovation & growth.

Corporate growth programmes.

We’re strategists and innovators focused on driving business growth and delivering tangible results for our corporate clients.

Our Offerings

We are a boutique strategy and innovation consultancy focused on disruptive innovation, inorganic growth and commercialisation support to drive business growth and deliver tangible results for clients.

INORGANIC GROWTH

We identify key market trends impacting your industry, identify viable growth opportunities, and make acquisitions or investments to deliver inorganic growth.

We structure a Corporate Growth Office in your organisation, assist in charting your innovation and growth mandate, develop business cases and run the end-to-end process to invest in and scale opportunities.

Customer Strategy and Value Proposition Development

We take a holistic approach in defining and analysing your end-to-end customer journey, to understand customer behaviours, customer needs, expectations, preferences and pain points.
We assist in developing solutions or value propositions that suit the customer context, alleviating customer pains and creating gains to improve the overall customer experience.

ORGANIC GROWTH

We serve an outsourced business development function, initiating a structured commercialisation programme that incrementally builds understanding across domains and deepens insight over time.
Through this programme, we determine suitable markets and customer segments, routes to market and commercialisation approaches for existing client ideas, offerings or ventures.

CORPORATE STRATEGY FORMULATION AND STRATEGIC PLANNING

We assist you with articulating your strategy and help you determine the top priorities for execution over a one, two, three or five year time horizon.

We assist with creating key action plans for driving your strategy forward in facilitated sessions.

DIGITAL TRANSFORMATION

We structure a digital transformation project that suits your organisation’s specific needs – whether it is holistic enterprise wide digital transformation or business unit/business process specific digital transformation.

Past projects have included enterprise digital strategy development, digital value proposition development, and the design and implementation of digital systems/platforms for clients.

SELECT STRATEGIC PROJECTS FOR CLIENTS

Sometimes, one simply needs a safe pair of hands to execute on the priorities that are core to business success.

Our consultants have experience in a wide array of industries and client problems. Reach out to us with your specific needs and we will assess if we are suited for the task.

Our Approach

We combine strategy and innovation theory with practical experience as ex-top tier global consultants and entrepreneurs to solve client problems and assist them with their growth journeys.

Blackslope is a principle led organisation:

principle 1

We are focused on getting stuff done for our clients. We take a practical approach and get to outcomes.

Success isn’t defined by the thump of the presentation. It is defined by momentum in the organisation, investment flows and movement on the bottomline.

principle 2

In our growth programmes, we play an end-to-end role in guiding the corporate growth journey.

We assist clients in defining their ambitions, setting up appropriate governance structures, running programmes and seeing opportunities through to execution.

principle 3

We are ecosystem builders and relationship nurturers. We connect organisations with cutting-edge industry leaders, and then negotiate on their behalf driving investments and strategic partnerships.

We play a “tinder for business” role – and ensure that you get the perfect match.

We are focused on getting stuff done for our clients. We take a practical approach and get to outcomes.

Success isn’t defined by the thump of the presentation. It is defined by momentum in the organisation, investment flows and movement on the bottomline.

In our growth programmes, we play an end-to-end role in guiding the corporate growth journey.

We assist clients in defining their ambitions, setting up appropriate governance structures, running programmes and seeing opportunities through to execution.

We are ecosystem builders and relationship nurturers. We connect organisations with cutting-edge industry leaders, and then negotiate on their behalf driving investments and strategic partnerships.

We play a “tinder for business” role – and ensure that you get the perfect match.

The Innovation Funnel

In our growth
programmes, we play
an end-to-end role.

We assist clients in defining
their ambitions, setting up
appropriate governance
structures, running the
programmes and seeing
opportunities through to execution.

We screen the viability of client
growth opportunities via the innovation
funnel, which provides the framework
for our growth programmes.

Before continuing to the next phase
of the innovation funnel, we’ll co-evaluate
ideas, value propositions and business
cases with our client’s team to prioritise
the most promising opportunities for
further investigation.

We are ecosystem builders and relationship
nurturers – we initiate relationships, negotiate
on your behalf and drive investments and
strategic partnerships forward.

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funnel2
funnel3
funnel4
IDEATION
We’ll complete a sprint during which we identify a number of ideas that are relevant to your industry, trends and growth ambitions…
INITIAL VALUE PROPOSITION (IVP) DESIGN
…together with your team, we’ll identify the most promising opportunities and launch an initiatial value proposition investigation into these top opportunities.
VALUE PROPOSITION (VP) DESIGN
Our teams will co-evaluate the IVPs for each of the identified opportunities and prioritise them for further evaluation and exploration.
BUSINESS CASE DESIGN
Finally, we will complete thorough businesses cases for the most exciting client opportunities with the aim of facilitating an investment and/or partnership with high return potential.

The Innovation Funnel

In our growth programmes, we play an end-to-end role. We assist clients in defining their ambitions, setting up appropriate governance structures, running the programmes and seeing opportunities through to execution.

We screen the viability of client growth opportunities via the innovation funnel, which provides the framework for our growth programmes. Before continuing to the next phase of the innovation funnel, we’ll co-evaluate ideas, value propositions and business cases with our client’s team to prioritise the most promising opportunities for further investigation.

We are ecosystem builders and relationship nurturers – we initiate relationships, negotiate on your behalf and drive investments and strategic partnerships forward.

funnel1
funnel2
funnel3
funnel4
IDEATION
We’ll complete a sprint during which we identify a number of ideas that are relevant to your industry, trends and growth ambitions…
INITIAL VALUE PROPOSITION (IVP) DESIGN
…together with your team, we’ll identify the most promising opportunities and launch an initiatial value proposition investigation into these top opportunities.
VALUE PROPOSITION (VP) DESIGN
Our teams will co-evaluate the IVPs for each of the identified opportunities and prioritise them for further evaluation and exploration.
BUSINESS CASE DESIGN
Finally, we will complete thorough businesses cases for the most exciting client opportunities with the aim of facilitating an investment and/or partnership with high return potential.

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Our Industries

We’ve assessed more than 200 corporate opportunities across a range of industries, resulting in multi-million dollar deals.