About Doblin

Doblin is an innovation strategy firm. We craft comprehensive, reliable, and repeatable approaches to innovation, supported by Innovation Effectiveness™ diagnostics. We have more than twenty five years of experience helping business leaders tap their organization’s full innovation potential.

We help clients:

• Assess their current innovation capabilities
• Improve innovation cycle times and hit rates
• Think beyond new products alone to include the
  Ten Types of Innovation™
• Set their own unique innovation direction
• Develop, select and implement innovation concepts

We have several core capabilities:

• The Innovation Landscape™: a proprietary diagnostic tool to identify patterns of innovation within an industry
• An innovation diagnostic to assess innovativeness and to identify the most effective levers for improving it
• A robust “insights for innovation” offering, tailored to generate discoveries critical for innovation concept development
• Workshop and project protocols to generate compelling innovation concepts and momentum to implement them
• Concept development support for developing supporting data, telling compelling stories, illustrating innovation ideas, and creating convincing presentations
• Concept selection protocols to help clients choose innovations for further development

Doblin was founded in 1981 by the late Jay Doblin, a noted designer and professor at the Institute of Design at the Illinois Institute of Technology, and by Larry Keeley, Doblin's current president and a frequently published innovation strategy expert. Doblin's staff is composed of strategists, reseachers, planners, designers, and facilitators.

Since May 2007, Doblin has been proud to be a part of Monitor Group, one of the world’s premier professional advisory firms. Monitor has 28 offices worldwide and offers a portfolio of strategic consulting services to clients who seek to grow top-line revenue, shareholder value, and individual and organizational capabilities. The firm works with the world's foremost business experts and thought leaders to help major multinational companies, governments and institutions develop specialized capabilities in areas including innovation, competitive strategy, marketing, organizational design and leadership.

Doblin Inc. is moving
After June 25: 111 East Wacker Drive, Suite 300, Chicago IL 60601
Until June 25: 330 N. Wabash Ave., Suite 1300, Chicago IL 60611 USA
phone 312 443 0800  fax 312 443 0567

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