Leadership through innovation
Our goal is to help corporations guard against disruption by developing new competencies and innovative outcomes – blending the best elements of startups and growth oriented operations.
WHAT PEOPLE SAY
What we do
We help organizations create a custom operating model that addresses these innovation building blocks and more.
Methodology, Tools & Repeatable Process
Methodology, Tools & Repeatable Process
From policies and procedures to frameworks and tools, a new way of working can be harnessed and sustained.
Pipeline Sourcing & Portfolio Management
Pipeline Sourcing & Portfolio Management
Pipeline sourcing can be overwhelming, yet is crucial to the trajectory of innovation goals in a company.
Culture, Skills & Mindset
Culture, Skills & Mindset
Designing the space, team norms and working principles to enable diverse, bold, and creative thinking.
Learning & Experimentation
Learning & Experimentation
Shifting the focus to learning and outcomes supported by data, while enabling cross-team collaboration and stakeholder participation.
Ecosystem Development
Ecosystem Development
Maintaining a robust network of external partners can be incredibly helpful to accelerate progress and momentum.
Governance & Measuring Success
Governance & Measuring Success
Focus on quality and speed, ensuring that GO / No GO decisions at each phase are effectively stage gated and de-risked.
experts in the field
Large Organizations
We are dedicated to providing the best to our valued clients. Our staff is composed of professionally trained people with vast experience in the area.
- Making the case for enterprise innovation
- Assessing existing portfolios, projects, & programs
- Customizing strategy & operating model design
- Reinforcing process, talent, infrastructure, & culture
- Refreshing ideation & portfolio management
- Creating scale & sustainability for innovation groups
Our Expertise
Large Organizations
We are dedicated to providing the best to our valued clients. Our staff is composed of professionally trained people with vast experience in the area.
- Making the case for enterprise innovation
- Assessing existing portfolios, projects, & programs
- Customizing strategy & operating model design
- Reinforcing process, talent, infrastructure, & culture
- Refreshing ideation & portfolio management
- Creating scale & sustainability for innovation groups
Startups
We are dedicated to providing the best to our valued clients. Our staff is composed of professionally trained people with vast experience in the area.
- Advisory for roadmap, business model, & growth strategies
- Revenue strategies & go-to-market approach
- Partnership & pilot opportunities with established companies
- Fundraising approach preparation
- Building culture & high performing teams
Incubators, Accelerators, Studios & Venture Funds
We are dedicated to providing the best to our valued clients. Our staff is composed of professionally trained people with vast experience in the area.
- Advising on structure & strategy for startup teams
- Teaching founders how to build products & teams efficiently
- Advisory for repeatable process & innovation methodology
- Facilitating effective partnerships and pilots between corporates & startups
- Connecting resources & subject matter experts to accelerate progress
Ways to Engage
We accelerate your journey to innovate by accessing your capabilities and goals, and partnering to provide tailored services, from strategy to playbooks. Doing innovation “with”, not “at” you.
INDIVIDUAL
ORGANIZATION
Coaching & Advisory
Supporting innovation leaders and teams with guidance, experiential learnings, and best practices across industries
Innovation Deep Dives
Providing deep dives to activate and accelerate progress in a variety of complex areas form early stage innovation work to established practices
Innovation Playbook
Designing a custom operation model, how to guides, policies & procedures to enable activity, and to meet any company’s current stage of their innovation journey
Trainings & Workshop
Upskilling teams with frameworks, tools, templates, and methodologies to enable innovation delivery
Lisha is an innovation leader, venture builder, startup investor, and business strategist who has served on all sides of the business table.
Prior to launching Arable Ventures, Lisha served as the founder and CEO of Vanguard’s Innovation Studio, where she was responsible for the identification of white spaces with the power to disrupt and the build out of successful ventures to fill those spaces. Throughout her work, Lisha has led innovation, product, and business teams in vision, strategy, operations, and the creation of powerful tech-enabled solutions, with a high emphasis on growing the best functioning teams and company culture. An angel investor and startup advisor, Lisha teaches a course on Open Innovation & Strategic Alliances @ Temple University, and is a lifelong advocate of diverse founders and funders.
Team
Strategist
Product Owners
Designers
Market Researchers
Data Scientists
Prototypers
Developers
Innovation doesn't have to be magical or mysterious.
Arable Ventures was launched to help organizations demystify and learn how to "do" innovation.
OUR LATEST NEWS
In The Press
Lean, human-centered and innovative: A Q&A with Lisha Davis, head of Vanguard Innovation Studio
May 04, 2018
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