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Company Rankings
- BCG: The 50 Most Innovative Companies Over TimeBCG started publishing an annual innovation report—with its list of the 50 companies most admired by global innovation executives—in 2005. Explore the changing rankings and the rich history of innovation thought leadership.
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Design Innovation and Strategy Firms
- Accenture DigitalDesign and customer experience, enterprise analytics and big data, and mobility and industrial internet of things.
- BCG Digital VenturesProvides consulting, design, and technology services to form strategic venture teams with our client partners.
- Board of InnovationAlong with innovation strategy and business design, we offer a variety of capability building formulas to enhance the skills within your organization.
- Critical MassA digital marketing agency that creates extraordinary experiences for the world's leading brands. Our capabilities include strategy, digital marketing, site design, user experience design, social, mobile, media, marketing science, research and custom communities located in Chicago, IL.
- DesignitDesign what matters. We help companies and institutions transform, making them more people-centered, more innovative and more agile. Together we craft sustainable futures, improving quality of life, while enabling new business growth.
- DoblinThrough a combination of design, strategy, social science, and technology, we work to unearth opportunities and spur ongoing growth.
- DuPuisDesign innovation agency making lives better with smart, beautiful and market-ready solutions.
- Elevation MarketingProvide clients with innovation strategies and solutions that leverage their capabilities, their customers’ needs and desires, their culture and vision, and their business goals. This process is highly collaborative and is based fully on design thinking.
- Frog DesignDesigns exceptional digital and physical customer experiences to transform businesses at scale.
- Fuse ProjectIdentify and develop new opportunities for business growth. using analytical tools and a creative process, we help companies build the future.
- Jump AssociatesStrategy and innovation firm. Jump has partnered with the world’s most admired companies to help crack their biggest growth challenges and respond quickly to pressing market issues.
- McKinsey DesignWe help clients design Change that Matters by spotting opportunities in unmet customer needs, cocreating breakthrough products and services, and making organizations more innovative and agile.
- MethodInternational experience design firm with offices in San Francisco, New York City, and London.
- PentagramPentagram is a multi-disciplinary, independently-owned design studio. Our work encompasses graphics and identity, products and packaging, exhibitions and installations, websites and digital experiences, advertising and communications, sound and motion.
- RedscoutBrand strategy and innovation agency dedicated to transforming the futures of ambitious brands and businesses.
- Publicis SapientAs a digital business transformation partner of choice, we’ve spent nearly three decades utilizing the disruptive power of technology and ingenuity to help digitally enable our clients' business.
- StrategosStrategy & innovation advisory firm specializing in growth strategy, business creation, innovation capability development, and radical simplification.
- TeagueCombining technology expertise with design and a deep understanding of human behavior for innovation in travel, technology, and their intersection.
- TEAMS DesignOffers services in user experience design (UXD), interaction design, industrial design, engineering, prototyping, design strategy, and brand communications.
- AltitudeHuman centered product innovation and design firm that identifies, creates, and develops new products and experiences for their clients.
- Cesaroni DesignAn award-winning industrial product design consulting firm based in Chicago, Illinois, specializing in the creation of aesthetically pleasing and user focused products.
- ClayA UI/UX design and branding agency in San Francisco creating digital products and brands for startups and established companies.
- Cooper DesignProduct design, design strategy, interaction design, visual design, brand, user research, experience strategy, service design, user experience design, product strategy, product development, customer experience, education, business strategy, and business design.
- DelveFull-service design and innovation firm that believes a better world is possible through human-centered design.
- Fahrenheit 212We define innovation strategies and develop new products, services, and experiences that create sustainable, profitable growth for our clients.
- HLBEngineers, designers, and researchers bringing to life the true potential of every product and aligning business model and product objectives.
- Seven02Projects range from design and user research, to design languages and product development, to interaction design and identity & packaging design.
- Agenda28A design firm specialized in social impact created at the Harvard Innovation Lab and currently based in New York City and Mexico City. We offer integral design services including social innovation strategy, product/service design, branding, content & media development, and editorial design.
- BritewebA social impact agency and strategic partner specializing in branding, digital and marketing solutions for nonprofits, foundations and purpose-driven companies.
- ContinuumDeveloping products, services, and experiences that improve people’s lives around the world
- CosmicWe empower social impact organizations to catalyze real world change by helping them nail their impact story, build brand awareness, and inspire action.
- D-RevD-Rev exists to design and deliver medical technologies that close the quality healthcare gap for under-served populations.
- Greater Good StudioGreater Good Studio is a strategic design firm focused on advancing equity. We do this by creating human-centered programs, tools and experiences, and by teaching design to changemakers in organizations and communities.
- The Social Impact StudioWe partner with mission-driven organizations to expand their impact through strategy, program, and service design.
- Super CuriousA social impact design studio. Services include facilitating international workshops, working on large scale digital solutions, product & systems design, and cross-cultural and international user research & usability testing.
- DBSIThink of us as rocket scientists — but instead of rockets, we launch exceptional bank and credit union environments by fusing design-build, technology, and delivery together.
- Frog: Financial Services DesignWith our design thinking approach to financial technology and financial services consulting, frog helps organizations cultivate smarter financial solutions.