DISCOVERY PROCESS: Innovation Through Insight

Genius Stone has been designed to be a consortium of proven, senior talent in a variety of critical business disciplines. Our purpose and plan is to help organizations define their current reality with directness and precision.  From that foundation, we bring expertise to bear to address the unique challenges our organizations face, and initiate decisive, rapid, fast break response.

Conventional consulting organizations are often structured around method, process and bases of knowledge.  Their relationship with organizations can often become reductive and targeted, seeking to boil down complex situations to manageable “problems” that can be “solved”.  Often this approach yields little but a perpetuation of longer problems and removing focus from the critical issues in the current reality that must be address.

Genius Stone assumes that all business situations are integrated, complex entities made up of many moving parts that must be addressed through observation, insight in an holistic manner. Solving a single problem in a complex system often does little more than to create secondary reactions and new problems

Genius Stone solutions are the essential building blocks of observation, change and transformation.  Our approach is modeled in two distinct groups of solutions

Core solutions

Core Solutions enable organizations to identify their present reality and take pragmatic action to ensure optimal functioning to objectives

• Discovery
• Strategy
• Marketing & Product Launch
• Tactical Execution

Specialty Solutions

Specialty solutions are advanced and engaged opportunities for the organization to extend its reach in the marketplace and proactively build its markets, scale its products and services and create its future proactively.

• Future Intelligence
• Market Leadership
• Creativity & Innovation
• Sustainability

Genius Stone Solutions are designed to realize and express the  focus and direction that guide of our strategic Action Discovery Process.

• Traditional Business Intelligence – effectively led businesses depend upon a strong anchor and clear information about the key groups of people, the costs, and the realities of their market

• Interactive Marketplace --- in the new marketplace, however, traditional knowledge is not enough.  Accelerated tools to gather and use data, plus extraordinary intimacy and proximity to people has created a hyperspeed market – with rapid feedback loops coupled with deep mapping of information and underlying behavior patterns.

• Community --- A business today is a community and a dialogue between people. The communication tools bring us closer and the conversation we engage is critical to the success of any enterprise.  Advertising and messages are progressively less effective as it becomes possible to share recommendations of trusted associates and learn about options and choices we have through people.

• Transformative Insight --- Given the complexities and the moving parts in the world, there is also a need for genius --- the larger insight that connects the dots and sees beyond the structures and forms of the world.

Genius StonePartners is designed as a holistic consulting and development group that takes an integrated view of complex business situations.

We test the market place and assess the position of our client, the customers and competitors.

Our process identifies the window of opportunity and targets the specific entry points. Our process incorporates an insight based discovery process to build a foundation for FastBreak Solution Teams to take rapid action.

There are flows of intelligence that manifest as multidimensional streams of cause and effect at every level of life.  These flows have momentum and move forward with or without you. In business these flows are formed by market wants and needs. Genius Stone helps its leaders align their business strategy, structure and organizational culture to make it easy for the team to aggressively position the company for strategic advantage and maintain that advantage as market conditions change.

FUTURE INTELLIGENCE: Roadmap To Opportunity

The partners of the Future Intelligence Agency provide road maps to the most likely future by using depth psychology and sociology to understand how past and present event will affect the psychology of your market.  This provides a deep understanding of market possibilities.

MARKET ANALYSIS: Deep Understanding Of Culture Patterns

Our marketing partners see them selves as anthropologist digging into culture and subcultures of the modern day consumer tribes.  They use data to identify trends and then emerse themselves in the world of the people who create those trends to get a visceral feel for what is about to emerge.  Once the market is understood they help you stimulate and lead trends.

PRODUCT LAUNCH: Bridging From The Know To New Realities

Successful product launch is based upon a clear understanding of the core value proposition for the company and each of its products and services. Our product launch partners using, present reality as a foundation, find ways for your product or service to be a bridge to a future possibility that maybe just under the surface of market needs.  These needs may not be fully realized in the market place but with the proper positioning of your product, will become a trend or want.

PRAGMATIC STRATEGY: Realistic Strategies Your Team Can Implement

Most strategic planing firms give you the ideal strategy and hope you have a team capable of implementing that strategy.  Most often teams lack the skills to implement the ideal. Genius Stone Leadership Partners analyzes your team to understand what genius you have, what is missing. We help you find the missing pieces and helps you synchronize your team around a business strategy that integrates market understanding into the heart a soul of your team.

MARKET LEADERSHIP: It Is Not Enough To Enter The Market, You Must Lead

Once you have entered the market Genius Stone Partners coach your team to become market leaders. Through our Future Intelligence Institute we keep you in touch with the evolution of your markets and coach your team in creating new markets. In this manner your competition is always playing catch-up.

EMPOWERED EXECUTION: Easily Running The Day-To-Day Business

While leadership skills discover the trends and inspire people to follow, management skills are key to running the day-to-day business.  We are sure to develop all managers in the following:

• Creating structure that bring easy of operation of the business strategy
• Developing processes and procedures that carry work through the business
• Goal setting and monitoring
• Productivity development
• The use of advanced technology to monitor the business
• Sales and marketing systems
• Testing and interviewing new hires
• Coaching and developing team members
• Mentoring programs
• Conflict resolution
• Technical Skills Training
• Supervisory training and development