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Green Hydrogen: Hype or Hope for the Energy Transition?

If you follow developments in the energy industry, it’s impossible to avoid the ever-growing focus on green hydrogen. As more companies look to deliver on their Net Zero commitments, attention is turning to green hydrogen and its potential to solve some of the more intractable problems facing renewable energy and electriﬁcation, especially intermittency of supply.…

ESG: Moving from Compliance to Competitive Advantage

ESG is at the top of the agenda for boards and executives, causing anxiety for many leaders, who view ESG as a compliance issue and a risk to be managed. They often lump it in with regulatory and other compliance-oriented functions. But ESG represents more than compliance and a risk to be mitigated. Given the unprecedented…

FoodNEXT: Responding to Changing Demand and a Transforming Ecosystem

The food industry is poised for radical transformation. Foodservice is going virtual, digital, off-premise, and on-demand. Food retailing is becoming unattended, automated, and autonomous. Channels are converging and new models are springing up. How are themes like convenience, proximity, ghost kitchens, and consumer data reshaping current business models? What innovation systems are needed inside established organizations…

Using Business Model Design to Combat Climate Change & Social Inequality

The nexus between climate, social justice, and economic inequality crystallized in 2020 during the COVID-19 crisis. As Paul Siegler, Managing Director at Evergreen Climate Innovations, noted in Clareo’s 2020 Virtual New Energy Roundtable: “the pandemic, racial inequality, climate change—each crisis is a health crisis AND an economic crisis AND a human rights crisis.” As the…

Case Study: Edison International Growth & Innovation

Edison International is the holding company for Southern California Edison, one of the largest U.S. investor-owned utilities, and non-regulated Edison Energy. Facing rapid change of its core business, the company looked to establish a function to identify opportunities for growth, add value to the core business and provide insights on technology and business model innovation.…

Developing the Next Generation Digital Oil Services Company

Two leading providers of oil and gas (O&G) technology and services wished topartner and explore the opportunity for a next generation energy services company builtaround a digital backbone and solution suite for O&G Exploration and Production (E&P).This new company could provide connectivity to data and information sources tomachines, operating systems, and people representing various stakeholders.…

Fostering Innovation in Industrials

Faced with competitive pressures and growth of substitute products and imports, a leading manufacturer and distributor of wood products for building materials wished to develop its innovation capabilities and identify new growth opportunities. Through a series of campaigns and virtual ideation sprints, Clareo created an innovation organization with a fit for purpose design, including governance,…

Disruptive Metallurgy for Cleaner, Greener Battery Metals

In an article for Engineering & Mining Journal, Managing Director Satish Rao went in-depth with Carly Leonida on how we’re helping companies reimagine leaching applications for battery metals, and how end-user demands are driving more sustainable approaches.

What Doesn’t Get Measured Can’t Succeed

Companies struggle to define and apply the right metrics to their innovation efforts, often setting out to “do innovation” without explicitly defined goals. In our 20 years of establishing and tracking innovation efforts for notable brands in nearly every industry, we’ve come up with three design principles that the most successful companies employ. Managing Director…

Prospecting Purpose Podcast: Alternative Capital & Financing Innovation

In an episode of Prospecting Purpose, Managing Director Peter Bryant sat down with Sympact’s Elizabeth Freele to discuss alternative financing for mining, the state of innovation within the industry, and the need for collaboration among big mining companies.