Advisory Services
We Make Sense of the Chaos
Retail Prophet advises some of the world’s most respected brands in the exploration, imagination and articulation of cutting edge strategies. Our work runs the gamut from high-level executive sessions that rapidly expand and accelerate organizational understanding, all the way to preparing agency teams for very specific client pitches. With up-to-the-minute research and foresight, we will make sense of the chaos for you.
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Strategy & Innovation
Rapid Innovation Lab
How do you unleash the creative forces within your organization? How do you break the inertia of inaction? These are the challenges that organizations face, and that’s exactly why we created the Rapid Innovation Lab. Over 2-days, using a proprietary model, we will help your team understand the current and future state of retail and harness the creative forces within your organization to develop breakthrough ideas and innovative concepts.
A Rapid Innovation Lab is a fit for you if your organization is:
- Frustrated with the lack of internal innovation
- Looking to reinvent your brand, positioning, and value
- Eager to generate new, creative and prototype-able ideas quickly and effectively
Briefing Meetings
Retail Prophet briefing meetings have allowed some of the world’s most prestigious and well-known brands to gain cutting-edge insights and personalized feedback on new concepts, strategies, opportunities or innovations. Sometimes to truly get ahead of your competition you have to look outside of your organization, category or industry. Doug will meet with your team to provide context on emerging global trends in the retail and consumer goods market and to provoke your team’s thinking to new levels of strategic creativity.
A Briefing Meeting is a fit for you if your organization is:
- Navigating a pivot to a different format, model, or innovative concept
- Looking to understand emerging trends in retail, consumer behavior, the metaverse, media, technology and economics
- Simply in need of a fresh perspective
Futurist In Residence Program
If your organization is engaged in a more expansive project or simply requires more dedicated support, we offer a futurist in residence program. Whether you require ongoing research, external perspective or breakthrough ideas and inspiration, Doug Stephens will, for a defined period, become an ongoing resource to your internal teams to help you achieve your goals.
Store & Customer Experience Design
Great design isn’t just about the way something looks, it’s also about the way it works. Using a uniquely holistic model based on decades of research, we will take your organization through a collaborative process to design experiences that are surprising, unique, personalized, engaging and operationally repeatable.
Thought Leadership
If your organization is looking to produce informative, inspiring and engaging content for your internal or external audiences, we can help. We work with companies to share an inspiring vision of the future of retail and create compelling content. We can work collaboratively with you to create:
- Video series
- Podcasts
- Webinars
- Talk Shows
- Articles
- Whitepapers
- Live Events
Retail Tours
Sometimes the best ideas come from outside. We have an inside track to the most innovative and provocative retail concepts in the world. Our retail tours will fast-track the knowledge and perspective of your retail executives. Retail Prophet will organize a customized tour to support the strategic objectives of your organization.