Become a 5 Ways to Innovate Partner
Claim your seat at the grownup’s table with our tools and methods that have been developed over 30+ years at some of the world’s most successful companies.
What is the 5 Ways to Innovate Partner program?
We’ve spent decades honing our corporate innovation tools and methods and we believe they’re too good to keep to ourselves. Our certified partners have full access to our IP and are able to deliver our services to their clients in order to open up new areas of business that were previously out of reach.
What do Partners get?
Sales Kit
Our complete toolkit to inspire change at your client organisation. Includes sales decks, philosophy and the underlying secret-sauce behind our framework.
Assessment tools
Access to our proprietary assessment and diagnostic tools that help you benchmark an organisation’s innovation efforts and present a current state assessment.
Workshops
Our entire suite of workshop formats that guide companies through the process of developing a cohesive innovation strategy and arriving at their optimal innovation portfolio.
Scorecards
Spreadsheets that are built to simplify the analysis process, taking inputs from the assessment and workshops and developing quantifiable recommendations to present back to your client.
100 Day Playbooks
5x Playbooks to hand to your clients to help them get their innovation initiatives up and running once you’ve delivered your recommendations.
Training & Certification
Every team who joins us as a partner receives an intensive 3 day training program where we share our end-to-end methods, and once complete you join our directory as a badged delivery partner.
How do we support our partners?
The 5 Ways to Innovate brand platform supports our partners to attract new clients, win new projects, and open up new areas of business in existing accounts. We’ve worked hard to build our reputation, and our partners can share in the goodwill we’ve built via:
New business leads passed from us to you
Exposure and search-ability in our partner directory
Exposure through our social channels
Speaking and publicity opportunities at conferences and events in which we regularly participate
Book
Credibility and recognition from our upcoming book: 5 Ways to Innovate
Publicity
We’ve presented to more than 20,000 people at some of the leading conferences
Reputation
We’ve led innovation at some of the world’s leading organisations
Media
10x
Revenue Multiplier
Our partners are able to sell up to
10x worth of services in pull-through revenue as an output of delivering a 5 Ways to Innovate engagement. Think of us as your foot in the door to sell more of what you do best.
Interested in becoming a partner? Let us know
We understand you have a lot on your plate running and growing your business. Get in touch with us and we’ll set up a time to talk more and explore whether becoming a 5 Ways to Innovate partner is the right fit for your specific goals.
Frequently Asked Questions
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We only partner with professional services firms who are able to credibly sell and deliver innovation consulting to their clients. These business typically look like:
Consulting firms
Digital agencies
Boutique innovation consultants
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Becoming a 5 Ways to Innovate partner is completely free. However, we do charge a one time fee of $1,200 USD for the 3 day training course and we take a licensing fee which is a percentage of all projects delivered using our IP.
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In developing the 5 Ways to Innovate business, one of our core principles is to benefit the innovation ecosystem. In order to help 1000 corporates, we need a network of partners who can reach more client organisations than we ever could alone.
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Our business model is simple: we take a 30% licensing fee for the use of our IP on the initial 5 Ways to Innovate engagement, which is typically in the range of $45k USD. Any projects you sell off the back of this initial engagement doesn’t require any type of fee.
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Each professional services firm is different, but in our experience a 10x services multiplier is a reasonable assumption.
So hypothetically, if you delivered a $45k USD 5 Ways to Innovate engagement to a client, you would expect to sell an additional $450k USD worth of services to that client in pull-through revenue.