Innovation Management Consulting That Moves Ideas to Implementation
Start with a workshop or an organization-wide readiness assessment. Grow into a system that shows your return on innovation (ROI).
We help innovation teams build a structured innovation process their own people can run, tied to strategy and measured in results leadership can see. Workshops, training, consulting and the KWOKKA platform, from Calgary, Alberta.
One client measured 25% more capacity in its core staff roles. Another saves 15 to 25% of the time spent in problem-solving conversations.
What is Unbounded Thinking?
Unbounded Thinking is an innovation management consultancy based in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, working with organizations across Canada and the Middle East. We help innovation teams in mid-sized and large organizations take ideas from concept to implementation and show the return on innovation.
We bring together:
Workshops, keynotes and training, so your people can run innovation themselves
Consulting built on Human-Centered Innovation Management (HCIM), our method for moving ideas to implementation
The KWOKKA by UBT™ platform, where ideas, decisions and results live in one place
Most organizations start with a workshop or an Innovation Readiness Assessment across all departments, then add the platform when they want their ideas to keep moving.
Start with one step. Add the rest when you see results.
Most organizations don’t struggle with ideas.
They Struggle with Execution
Innovation teams generate valuable initiatives. Leaders invest in improvement, transformation, and growth.
Yet ideas often stall once work begins, and the return on innovation is hard to show. This is where we see it happen most:
Ideas get lost between concept and implementation
Innovation is treated as a side project
Leadership asks for ROI you can’t show yet
Pilots succeed, then stall
People keep their ideas to themselves
Departments work in silos
How It Works: Four Stages
Every engagement follows the same four stages. Most organizations start with a workshop or a readiness assessment across all departments, then add the rest as they see results.
Each stage has a matching module in the KWOKKA by UBT™ platform, so the work keeps moving between sessions.
Assess
Assess every department, not just one team, to see where your organization is ready and where it isn’t.
Ready for a System? Meet KWOKKA by UBT™
After the workshop, the KWOKKA by UBT™ platform keeps your team’s ideas moving. Ideas, decisions and progress live in one place instead of email and spreadsheets, so you can show the return on innovation.
One system for all four stages.
Innovation Readiness Assessment
Readiness scores and reports that show where to start
Strategic Blueprint
Priorities and a roadmap your leaders and teams agree on
Learning and Enablement
Courses and certification where your teams have gaps
Idea Management
Every idea gets an owner, clear stages and a decision
Want to see it? Book a walkthrough and we’ll show you how it works for a team like yours.
Book a WalkthroughBuilt for Innovation Teams and the Leaders Who Back Them
KWOKKA by UBT™ supports both the teams who do the work and the leaders who fund it.
Innovation and Improvement Teams
For innovation leaders, continuous improvement teams, and transformation groups responsible for delivery.
Agree on priorities across projects
Get more people contributing ideas
Show leadership the ROI in their terms
Spend less time on rework and stalled projects
Leaders and Sponsors
For executives, board members, and strategy leaders responsible for outcomes and investment decisions.
See risks before projects scale
Know where your investment is going
See the return on innovation as it builds
Make funding decisions on shared criteria
Operations and Delivery Leaders
For COOs, operations leaders, and program or project teams responsible for execution and results.
Track initiatives with clear ownership and accountability
See how work is progressing across teams
Connect day-to-day work to measurable outcomes
Deliver results, not just activity
KWOKKA by UBT™ connects leadership decisions with team execution, so innovation doesn’t stall and outcomes actually materialize.
The Method Behind Our Work
Human-Centered Innovation Management (HCIM)
Our workshops, consulting and the KWOKKA by UBT™ platform all follow Human-Centered Innovation Management (HCIM), a structured system designed to move innovation from insight to execution.
Instead of relying on ideas alone, HCIM focuses on the conditions required for execution: readiness, alignment, capability, and systems.
By measuring readiness, aligning decisions, and building capability where gaps exist, organizations reduce execution risk, build an innovation culture and improve outcomes.
Most innovation approaches start with ideas. HCIM starts with execution readiness.
Aligned with ISO 56001
HCIM follows the principles of the ISO 56000 family of innovation management standards, including ISO 56001, the standard for an innovation management system.
Where Most Teams Start
Workshops, keynotes and training give your team a quick win and a shared way of working. From there, the platform keeps it going.
Find the Right Workshop01
Innovation Training & Certification
Train your teams to create, manage and implement ideas, with certification.
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Innovation Management
Align your innovation goals with your strategy.
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Workshops and Keynotes
Hands-on workshops where teams work on their own problems, and keynotes for events.
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Innovation Tools
Templates, canvases and assessments your teams can use right away.
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Community Programs
Bring people together across your organization to solve shared problems.
What People in Our Programs and Our Clients Say
“We believe [our core] innovation has improved our capacity by 25% in all core staff roles. This improved capacity has now highlighted the need to streamline brand development and sales that reflect our capacities and focus…”
“By really helping us refine some of the foundations of our organization, I feel much more capable and willing to enter this big growth phase we are about to embark on. Without having those strong foundations I'm not sure I'd feel very confident to take on an $800,000 expansion project! I also feel like I can truly depend on my team and this has given me so much more confidence and joy in my everyday duties as a leader for my organization.”
“By creating a stronger team, we will hopefully have less employee turnover which will save a lot of time and money invested. By creating more efficient daily operational tasks, we can decrease the amount of time and effort it takes staff to complete tasks. By improving our visitor experience, we are able to increase repeat visitation and hopefully encourage more guests to visit. All these factors will help to increase our bottom line.”
“We are saving 15-25% time in our conversations, especially when it comes to problem-solving and decision-making… We will increase our revenue as a result of problem-solving and idea testing.”
“Being given access to resources and knowledge that I otherwise would never have been able to get access to in order to improve upon how our organization not only manages, but also encourages innovation.”
“It has really opened up a lot of dialogue and communication within the team which has allowed us to not only share more of our ideas with one another but also truly connected and bonded the team together more.”
“We have been seeing an increase in accountability and making changes with action items and new ideas. These changes have been mainly focused on core and adjacent areas of the business.”
Questions Innovation Teams Ask Us
What is an innovation readiness assessment?
It shows how ready your organization is to take ideas through to implementation. Our Innovation Readiness Assessment (IRA) is taken by people in every department, not one person, and places you on one of four stages, from Random Innovation to Organizational Innovation. You get a baseline and the gaps to close first. The free Snapshot gives one person a first look.
How do you move an idea from concept to implementation?
Give every idea the same path: clear stages, shared criteria for deciding, and one owner at each step. Test it small, measure what changed, then scale it, rework it or stop it. Most ideas stall because nobody decides, not because the idea is bad.
How do you align innovation with business strategy?
Start from the strategy, not the ideas. Name the business goals innovation should serve, turn them into an innovation roadmap with a few priority areas, and judge every idea against them. Leadership then sees why each project exists.
How do you prioritize innovation projects when resources are limited?
Score every project against the same criteria, agreed before scoring starts: fit with strategy, expected value, cost, risk and readiness to adopt. Fund the few that score best and set a date to stop the rest. Shared criteria make the decision credible, not political.
How do you measure the return on innovation (ROI)?
Measure activity and results separately. Activity: ideas captured, people trained, pilots run. Results: what was implemented and what it changed in time, cost or revenue. Report both against the goals in your roadmap, in leadership’s terms. That is your return on innovation.
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Start with one step
See Where Your Innovation Process Stalls
Book a workshop, or assess readiness across every department. Not ready yet? Take the free Snapshot for a one-person first look.
