Treehouse Innovation Success Stories

We've worked with organisations around the world to help them use design thinking to make an impact. Here we share a selection of stories about some of the people we've worked with and the projects we've worked on together.

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True & North
Equipping Sales Teams to Drive Long-Term Growth

The challenge Ajinomoto is a global B2B leader in food ingredients, known for its innovations in the food, health and wellness industries. Close collaboration with its clients is key to success for Ajinomoto, to ensure […]

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Tate & Lyle
Tate & Lyle: Leadership skills workshop

How can we help our leaders become more creative problem solvers?  Global food and drink supplier Tate & Lyle came to us during a period of transformation. Following the spin out of its sugar and […]

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McMaster – National Health Fellows Program & the Innovation Impact: Skills Assessment

The National Health Fellows program, co-designed by McMaster University’s world leading Faculty of Health Sciences and Faculty of Management, is a truly transformative experience – a nominated cohort of Canadian health leaders working together to […]

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Freudenberg 175th Anniversary – Strategic and Creative Engagement

How do you evaluate the future-readiness of a massive global business that spans multiple business models across all global regions?  In 2024, Freudenberg, a global technology company with operations spanning various industries, was preparing to […]

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The Futures Lab at LegalTechTalk 2024

How will new technologies change the way legal work is done? What impact will this have for legal operation and resource models? What skills will be most essential to success for the future lawyer? These […]

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AB InBev
AB InBev: Product Development for Global Beverages

How do we create more value for our vendors to help increase sales? We worked with AB InBev, the world’s largest brewery, to support in-house teams along end-to-end design journeys to develop new products and […]

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Sandvik Coromant’s Journey Towards a Shared Future Vision

How can we align and engage employees with our strategy? In the face of significant industry shifts, Sandvik Coromant, a global leader in the metal cutting sector, identified a crucial need for strategic realignment. Their […]

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Intapp
Intapp: Cross-sector AI Visioning Event

Read about how we partnered with Intapp to explore how generative AI could transform the future of law, accounting, private equity, investment, banking, and consulting.

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LawtechUK
LawtechUK: Improving access to justice

Download the full report How can we make legal support accessible to all? The last few years have seen huge developments in law firms using technology (lawtech) to provide their services to clients. However, for […]

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Michigan State University
MSU: Improving agriculture in Uganda with design thinking

How can we generate innovative solutions to agricultural challenges? Faculty at Makerere University in Uganda have been applying design thinking to their research to address issues facing the agriculture sector. Professors at Michigan State University’s […]

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Sony PlayStation
Sony PlayStation: Top 100 Leadership Summits

How can we align our leaders around big strategic change? The gaming industry has been through a massive period of change in recent years. As gaming has moved online, gaming brands have had to fundamentally […]

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Sky Labs
Sky: Creating fantastic facilitators

How can we scale up our internal innovation capability? Sky is committed to innovation. Operating in such a competitive and fast-moving market means it’s vital that the business can not only anticipate, but set industry […]

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West coast University
West Coast University: Designing the future of education

How can we best prepare the next generation of healthcare professionals for the world of work? Healthcare in the spotlight Never has the importance of a well-populated, highly skilled healthcare workforce been more in the […]

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Novartis
Novartis: Improving access to healthcare in underserved communities

How can we help more people access our treatments and medicines? Novartis is a global pharmaceutical company that is reimagining medicine. Patients are at the centre of everything Novartis does. They work with the patient […]

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Kaust
KAUST: Creating the smart home of the future

What should a smart home that meets the wants and needs of our diverse group of residents look like? Located in Thuwal, Saudi Arabia, banked by The Red Sea, The King Abdullah University of Science […]

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Sky
The innovation programme that inspired Sky Glass

How can we help a culture of innovation to spread? We’ve worked closely with the head of learning and development at Sky to build and rollout an innovation programme for all 600 Sky leaders. Every […]

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Accenture
Accenture: Amplifying innovation impact

We were delighted to work with global consulting firm Accenture to help one of its innovation teams – The Accenture Canada Innovation Hub – amplify its impact. The Innovation Impact: Skills Assessment is an easy […]

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Staying Ahead In The World Of Consultancy

Find out how a leading global consultancy used the i2 Skills Assessment to gather data on its innovation hub team to optimize the team to its full potential.

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Maximizing Project Teams By Building Self-awareness

Find out how a leading consultancy specialising in innovation used the i2 Skills Assessment to pinpoint the strengths and weaknesses of their project teams.

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Building A Culture Around Innovation

Find out how a global media company instilled a culture of innovation using the i2 Skills Assessment.

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Enhancing The Classroom Experience

Find out how a US-based college used the i2 Skills Assessment as a part of its design thinking course.

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Sky
Helping Sky’s People Partners build impact through client-centricity

How can we help our People Partner team better serve their internal customers? Sky is operating within an ever-changing, extremely fast-paced marketplace. Constant developments in the worlds of TV, content creation, mobile and broadband mean […]

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Designing patient-centred healthcare

How can we improve our provision to better meet patient needs? Following the COVID-19 pandemic, issues including staff shortages and inflation have made operating within the healthcare marketplace more challenging than ever. With the cost […]

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Helping diversity, equity and inclusion professionals lead change

How can we support our leaders to successfully manage change? For two years in a row now, we’ve been invited to run the ExperienceChange™ workshop on the DE&I Professional Leadership Programme, led by Charlotte Sweeney […]

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AstraZeneca
AstraZeneca: Building human centred design capability

How can we take a more customer-centric approach to our work?  AstraZeneca created ‘Our future reimagined’, its global transformation programme, to help it overcome the multitude of challenges facing the pharmaceutical industry – from increased […]

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Fujitsu
Training top talent at Fujitsu in human centred design

How can we equip and empower our senior leaders to drive innovation? Fujitsu have long been advocates for using human centred design as a method for identifying opportunities to develop technology that can help solve […]

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Porsche
Building innovation leadership capability at Porsche

How can we help our top team to drive innovation throughout the business? With disruptive technologies, regulatory change, and new entrants gaining traction, innovation is more important than ever in the automotive industry. In order […]

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IMI
Innovative Medicine Initiative: Engaging leaders with the future of diabetes care

What will the future hold and what should our plan for it look like? We were delighted to be part of an event to explore the future of diabetes care, using design thinking. Hosted by […]

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ebay
ebay: Reimagining the learning experience for managers

ebay has a long reputation for designing and delivering excellent internal learning programs. In 2018, a team comprised of HR, L&D and talent leaders came together to apply a design thinking approach to reimagine what […]

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British Council
British Council: Equipping future leaders

Future Leaders Connect is a global network for emerging policy leaders sponsored by the British Council. Each year, 10,000+ candidates apply for one of fifty seats on this prestigious programme, which is held in partnership […]

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ITAB Solution Design
ITAB: Creating greater value for customers with design thinking

ITAB is innovating in the way it serves its customers. It’s stepping beyond its core offer of working with retail customers to help co-create their in-store shopping experiences, and offering greater value through a range […]

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Orange Business Services
Orange Business Services: Aligning leaders around a customer centred strategy

In an increasingly competitive market, Orange Business Services knows how important it is to shape the future of technology hand in hand with its customers. Part of the wider network operator and digital service provider […]

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Ciena
Ciena: Design thinking action learning projects that inspired new tech solutions

Ciena uses human-centred design to generate new ideas for the business

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Global
Global’s Make Some Noise: Making a leading national charity more locally relevant

Like most charities, Global’s Make Some Noise has seen a significant reduction in its income since the COVID-19 crisis began. Make Some Noise is the official charity of Global, the Media and Entertainment group, supporting […]

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Remarkable
Remarkable’s annual Design-athon moves online

Online event invites people to harness the power of technological innovation to remove barriers for people living with disability

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DLA Piper
DLA Piper: Culture transformation to deliver greater impact

Global law firm DLA Piper saw an opportunity not only to address these challenges head on, but to capitalise on them to build stronger and more innovative client relationships. The result is an organization-wide Radical Change programme.

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SKY BROADCASTING
Sky: Designing better careers for top talent

Sky’s leadership team wanted to reimagine the Employee Experience, particularly for their more junior employees.

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Metro
Metro: Accelerated strategy design with the leadership team

The leadership team at Metro, the world’s most-read free paper, wanted to explore new ways of creating value for its urbanite readership in a rapidly evolving media landscape, in order to shape its strategy for the coming 18 months.

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News UK
News UK: Designing creative, collaborative environments

News UK (home of The Times, Sunday Times, The Sun and other high profile news brands) wanted to reimagine how physical space in its London offices might be used to reinforce company values and encourage collaboration and creativity.

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Airbus
Airbus: Design thinking training to accelerate innovation

The ICT team at Airbus was looking for a way to accelerate innovation across global locations in a consistent, joined-up fashion.

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SAP
SAP: Bringing leaders together to co-design a learning strategy

The Global Head of Learning for Sales at SAP asked the Treehouse Innovation team to help them develop innovative strategy for designing and delivering learning to the global SAP workforce.

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Schneider Electric
Schneider Electric: Driving continuous innovation with global teams

Schneider Electric (SE) is a world leader in energy management and efficiency. With over 130,000 employees in more than 100 countries, SE provides technology and integrated solutions for industry, infrastructure and residential customers around the […]

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The Strategic Management Society
Neuroelectrics: SMS Madrid

The Strategic Management Society (SMS), as part of their 34th Annual International Conference, dedicated one day to tapping into the collective knowledge and creativity of their membership of leading strategy practitioners and academics to generate fresh thinking for one of today’s most innovative companies: Neuroelectrics.

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