Time to Think Big
At intensive.works we help multinationals, scale-ups, start-ups & individuals to innovate and grow by Thinking Big whilst Solving Small.
The ways we help you grow
Gather meaningful Insights, formulate executable Strategy, inspire actionable Innovation, boost your Go-to-market, optimise your Product Operations.
Insights
It all starts here! Help bring fresh perspectives to existing insights, structure your customer discovery, or assess external market trends.
Strategy
Work with you to determine the right strategy for the most attractive segments (where to play), with compelling value propositions (how to win), while making sure it’s all worth it! (what you need).
Innovation
Challenge you to Think Big! but to succeed when you Solve Small. We can facilitate inspiration through LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY®, running Hackathons, leading Design Sprints, or structuring some Jive Prototyping.
Go-to-Market
Identify what is needed to scale and succeed — channels, commercials, communications, people and many other challenges.
Product Operations
Help implement appropriate Product Operations for your context covering Org design, Process optimisation, Investment consistency, pragmatic Prioritisation and realistic business cases.
Imaginative Workshops
We combine experience, with engaging methodologies, to create Imaginative Workshops. Think collabs such as Where to Play X Portfolio Strategy, LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® X Roadmap Prioritisation, ProductFIT X Product Reboot.
Many proven approaches
Choose one of our proven approaches that we adapt to your needs. We see each client challenge as unique — these are our starting points.
Customer Discovery
Discovery is as much about mindset than method. Customers can be your greatest source of insights if you know how to listen and what to ask them.
Competitive Analysis
Benchmarking against the competition can be a struggle. We provide a structured approach to understanding the threats of today and tomorrow.
Industry Thematics
Helping you see the less obvious. Capturing industry themes using tried & tested techniques to get the best from your people with engaging workshops to deliver impactful board level analysis.
Market Audit
Helping you pull together a forensic analyses of the current & future market you operate in — key for leadership alignment, investment, and employee reassurance.
Opportunity Sizing
Knowing how big an opportunity is, how accessible is a market, what are the industry themes, is all vital for decision making. We help develop credible data points and options. This drives the Where to Play decisions.
Where to Play
Strategy is easy to say and hard to do. We work with you to find the right balance between protecting your current business whilst driving innovation growth. We are certified experts in the Where to Play ® framework.
How to Win
Helping you to be laser focused on the advantages you need to leverage or build. Everything from people, propositions, promotions to pricing.
Investment Pitch
Telling the story is more than the numbers; it’s the narrative. Whether it’s a business case, investor pitch storytelling, or a complete template framework that you can adopt, we can help.
LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY®
As certified LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® facilitators we use this method to unlock the best ideas from individuals and to find the spark that ignites the team.
Big Picture Workshops
We design specific workshops for internal teams or customer groups so that, for a while, business as usual is forgotten while we embrace Imagineering and collectively Think Big!
Design Sprints
Structured, time-boxed sprints that take you from problem to customer tested prototype in days, not months. With this collaboration you get the inspiration of customers and employees learning fast together.
Co-innovation
Customer collaborations, Hackathons, Competitions, Jams, Bootcamps – we love to keep it fresh by bring people together to generate meaningful outcomes by structuring the unstructured!
ProductFIT
For a new product, or maybe a problem child, ProductFIT is an intensive bootcamp for cross-functional product teams. Just 1 week of 5 short sessions, using proven growth frameworks, led by exceptional facilitators, gets you on the right track.
Profitable Pricing
Setting, resetting, and maintaining profitable pricing for each product/market requires a data driven strategy with effective structures & systems to generate the right sales number.
Product Marketing
Marketing is more than ‘socials’. It’s an integrated plan to drive engagement internally and awareness to sales externally. Forget the vanity metrics. We’ll help you focus on what moves the needle.
Effective Product Launch
We’ve all been there. The insights were followed, the empowered product team delivered, sales were briefed, a big launch party and then pfff! We’ll help you focus on the last mile, first.
Operating Models
We have designed and implemented product operating models that go from idea to execution, investment to ROI, org design to job descriptions, Waterfall to Scaled Agile, all with tools, templates, and cross-functional training.
Strategy Governance & Investment
We help you connect your strategy to your product investment to what gets built, shipped & sold. Everything from strategic planning, to big room events, to quarterly reviews, to consistent, commercially realistic business cases.
Roadmaps and Prioritisation
Everyone’s got a roadmap, right?! Yes, different versions, flavours, and formats… and that’s often within the same team! Aligning your prioritisation, estimation, and presentation is critical for all product companies. Use our practical experience to get aligned.
Capability Building
What gets you ahead is not what keeps you ahead. We help you build the internal muscle to keep winning as markets change, using our proprietary product operations process, capability frameworks, and diagnostic tools
It is intensive but it works!
intensive.works is the place where you can find Paul Inness and a collection of his trusted, seasoned, experienced and highly skilled associates.
Whether you are interested in one of our product strategy bootcamps, see how LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® works with Strategy, Products & Innovation, get help with an investor pitch, or need some full fat and focused fractional CxO support, this is what we do, and we do it really well.
The best outcomes often come from focused, intensive work — not long, drawn-out engagements.
Ready to Think Big?
Whether you need a Where to Play strategy workshop, a restart bootcamp with ProductFIT, alignment with LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY®, or focused fractional CxO support — we can help you by Thinking Big and SolvingSmall.