Innovation Consulting
Impulse Partners is redefining the strategy consulting model by integrating the innovation drivers shaping future transitions: innovation labs, start-up investments, entrepreneurship, third spaces, new studio offerings, and more.
Enlightening, guiding, accelerating, implementing
Since 2011, Impulse Partners has been leveraging its expertise in strategic and operational innovation consulting to support major corporations, professional organizations, local authorities, SMEs, and start-ups.
- Strategic studies and benchmarks: providing insights and analysis to support our customers’ exploration of emerging issues such as biomaterials, water management, artificial intelligence, digitalization, and decarbonization.
- Strategic planning: assisting managers in defining and executing their strategic roadmaps to achieve long-term objectives.
- Innovation organisation: identifying critical success factors and designing effective processes and governance systems for fostering innovation.
- Open innovation systems: equipping companies with modern tools and approaches to create value beyond traditional models, including start-ups, corporate ventures, entrepreneurship, spin-offs, and innovation hubs.
‘We support both business experts and ExComs in defining their innovation strategy.
Jérôme Pasquier
Partners - Impulse Partners
Consulting services
Innovation Governance
Advice to senior management, strategic alignment and direction.
Research, benchmark and case studies
Mapping stakeholders and solutions internationally, comparing with peers to better position and strengthen the impact.
Market study
Anticipating business potential and improving performance.
Innovation roadmap
Providing strategic advice, expertise, methodologies, pace and ad hoc resources to manage innovation projects.
Open-innovation consulting
Innovate collectively and create special relationships with start-ups.
Investments, Acquisitions, Due diligence
Define objectives, framing the investment approach, set up an investment plan, explore opportunities...
Corporate Accelerator programs
We leverage on our extensive knowledge of corporate-startup collaboration to support our clients willing to engage in start-up challenges, incubators, accelerators, investment funds...
A strong experience of city sectors and innovators
Our innovation consulting expertise is rooted in deep knowledge of the construction, infrastructure, industry, energy, and real estate sectors. This is complemented by our understanding of key players and innovators across the value chain.
Listening for signals
Conducting employee interviews, analyzing international benchmarks, and engaging with stakeholders and start-ups to identify emerging trends.
Analyze and compare
Synthesizing insights and strategic directions, enriching them through collaboration with decision-makers and stakeholders, and developing actionable recommendations.
Accelerate and implement
Supporting action implementation through design assistance, facilitating experimentation, fostering internal innovation dynamics, and producing and sharing impactful content.
Measure and reinforce
Focusing on Key Performance Indicators to assess impact, gather feedback, and continuously refine strategies.
A multidisciplinary team and unique sector knowledge
For each project, we bring together a dedicated team of consultants and experts, combining international talent and diverse skill sets. Our multidisciplinary team specializes in areas such as innovation management, strategy, marketing, engineering, architecture, and entrepreneurship.
We are deeply rooted in the urban sectors, with many team members drawing on extensive experience in these fields. We place great emphasis on fostering diversity in both professional backgrounds and personal profiles, ensuring a dynamic and inclusive team for every project.
Find out more about our business sectors
They trust us
Air Liquide
Advice and recommendations for the refurbishment of the Saclay R&D laboratory.
Saint-Gobain
Identify opportunities for a Group entity's water strategy by referencing pioneering countries in water management, best practices and the positioning of other players in the value chain.
GSE
Explore market opportunities and strategic positioning in the renovation sector (market analysis, benchmarking, recommendations).
Orano - Circular economy market study
A Europe-wide study of all the ecosystems (funds, universities, laboratories, etc.) providing circular economy solutions for industry and filtering for Orano's businesses.
setec international
Raison d'être and corporate project. Support for setec international in defining its raison d'être and writing a 3-year strategic plan.
Testimonials from our clients and partners
‘Impulse Partners is both consulting and something very pragmatic.‘
‘Thanks to Impulse Partners, we're tuned in to market trends, new businesses, new activities.‘
"Impulse Partners has a fresh look in a very conservative industry, a young and innocent look but without certainty or arrogance.
Impulse has helped us a great deal to make progress on issues such as carbon footprinting, strategic animation and development in the energy field, concretes of the future, and also partnership projects with start-ups in the property sector and industries related to the construction trades. We appreciate their know-how and they know how to speak the language of builders, developers, architects and customers. We value their interpersonal skills, and they know how to speak the language of builders, developers, architects and customers."
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If you need help structuring your innovation strategy, accelerating its implementation, or acculturating your employees, contact us!