Our Thinking. Out Loud.

At Smart Growth, innovation, thought leadership, and intellectual curiosity aren’t just buzzwords we use during presentations.  They describe our culture and the way we think about solving our clients’ most challenging problems.

We don’t work with clients that give us something to do.  We work with clients that give us something to work toward – a completely redesigned process for delivering innovation, a new strategy for customer retention, or the vision for a newly merged partnership.

We’re constantly thinking about ways to solve not just today’s business and financing problems, but those that most companies don’t know are waiting for them tomorrow.

 

Innovation Assembly

Great minds never think alike.

That’s why we like to put them all in the same room.

It’s called an Innovation Assembly. And there’s nothing like it. We bring together a group of our brilliant minds, put them in a room, and charge them with the task of come up with innovative ways to improve your business. The ideas can lead to massive, enterprise-wide changes or they can be simple, practical insights to help you do your job better.

We think outside the box, inside the box, and without any box. It doesn’t matter where the ideas come from. What matters is that our team comes up with genuine innovations that advance your interests, not ours.

 

The sessions are always held off the clock, on our own dime.

We’re so focused on doing what’s best for you that we don’t even charge for our Innovation Assembly sessions. Often the ideas that emerge are completely outside the scope of any engagement we might have with you. For us, it’s a fun way to challenge ourselves to be more creative and think differently about our clients and their opportunities.

 

So what kinds of innovations have been brought to the table?

Past Innovation Assemblies have generated ideas for everything from new structures of funding solutions regionally… to new ways to use investment frameworks…to new revenue models. Not every idea will see the light of day, but many of our clients have implemented innovations that had a significant impact on their business.