Digital business designers
It’s time to put your old business out of business
Strategy and design for the digital age
Wilson Fletcher works with forward-thinking leaders to transform their organisations into strong digital businesses
Why work with us?
We believed long ago that a whole generation of established companies and services would need to be reimagined to thrive in the digital economy, so we set up a consultancy to provide the strategy, design and insight support to make it happen. We’ve been doing it ever since.
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Incremental innovation is everywhere, but the real step-change, breakthrough innovations are much harder to come by. There’s no fixed formula for success, but here are six key techniques that we use consistently to generate big ideas.
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Focused on maximising your business ecosystem? Visualisation is vital.
Large organisations increasingly realise the importance of developing partnerships and building out ecosystems. Used well, ecosystems enhance and accelerate innovation; enabling the rapid development of new products and services to generate new revenue streams from customers old and new.

Customer-led design won’t lead you somewhere new
Customer-led design is an accepted norm these days; a go-to approach for innovation teams. But there’s a fundamental flaw in customer-led design when you’re trying to take a real leap forward: customers can’t lead you there.

Coming of age: 18 years of WF
9th January 2021 marked Wilson Fletcher’s 18th birthday. The coming-of-age party we’d planned obviously won’t be happening (our 21st definitely got a scale-up) but it’s an amazing milestone for us to hit. Some reflections on the journey so far…

Personas and beyond: representing customers in the design process
Keeping a focus on customers throughout the design process has long been the domain of the persona, but we rarely use them in favour of two more powerful and applicable tools; behavioural archetypes and behavioural modes.

Why a Corona-crisis in local media affects us all, and how it can be prevented
Our recent work with Nesta’s Future News Pilot Fund has highlighted again how crucial local news is, why it must have a viable future for all of our sakes, and why that future lies in forming a new relationship with consumers, starting now.

How we innovate: six techniques that lead to breakthrough ideas
Incremental innovation is everywhere, but the real step-change, breakthrough innovations are much harder to come by. There’s no fixed formula for success, but here are six key techniques that we use consistently to generate big ideas.
Progressive companies worldwide
We’ve worked with brilliant client teams around the world to deliver hundreds of successful transformation strategy and service innovation programmes.
ABC

AP

AXA Health

Bauer

BFI

BT Sport

Dennis

DK

Experian

Fairfax

The Good Food Guide

JATO

LexisNexis

Lloyds Banking Group

NHS

Penguin Books

S&P Global Platts

Spotlight

The Telegraph

The Times

Travel Republic

Waterstones
