Expertise
As the business environment continues to evolve, with many of the world’s leading companies rapidly being overtaken by innovative newcomers, the imperative for innovation has never been more urgent. Developments in artificial intelligence, increased market volatility, and the escalating environmental crisis are accelerating these changes.
Despite this urgency, many leaders find themselves struggling to effectively drive innovation. Having led an extensive career in industrial design and creative direction since 1999, we have observed firsthand the patterns and missteps many businesses have taken. Often, immense investments in new products result in only marginal improvements that fail to differentiate from competitors.
Our mission is to assist companies in setting and achieving bold, ambitious goals. With a wealth of experience collaborating with senior executives across diverse sectors, we have guided innovation, design, and development projects that have addressed a wide range of challenges.
We partner with CEOs and business leaders aiming to expand their ventures through superior products and services. By supporting strategy formulation, portfolio innovation, and the development of teams, processes, and cultures, we help businesses maximize their IP's potential, spin off new ventures, and accelerate growth. Together, we design and launch groundbreaking solutions that stand out in the marketplace.
You want help with:
Modernizing and differentiating your offering
Design leadership at your organization
Spinning off or standing up a new business
Accelerating a recent acquisition
Understanding the value of a business’s design assets
Services
Our service offering has been crafted to deliver meaningful and measurable results. Whether you need interim executive-level design leadership, expertise in spin-offs, or strategic differentiation across your portfolio, our Design and Advisory services are focused on achieving tangible outcomes. We are dedicated to augmenting your current design capabilities or serving as your complete design engine, always with a commitment to driving success and innovation.
Diagnostic
Every engagement begins with our diagnostic, essential for understanding your business and tailored for companies seeking growth and competitive advantage. We thoroughly assess your current design and brand positioning to reveal strengths, weaknesses, and key areas for improvement. This ensures our strategies are targeted, effective, and aligned with your specific objectives and market conditions. Through this diagnostic approach, we craft a clear pathway for innovation and growth, enhancing your competitive edge.
Fractional Design Officer
We provide the strategic leadership of a Chief Design Officer for companies needing high-level design expertise without a full-time commitment. Our fractional service offers seasoned design leadership on a part-time or project basis, ideal for driving design initiatives and aligning strategies with business objectives. By integrating with your team, our Fractional Design Officer fosters creativity and innovation, ensuring design excellence and consistency while managing costs effectively.
Design advisor
Offering the strategic leadership of a Design Officer on an ongoing, 1:1 basis. Ideal for companies seeking high-level design expertise without a full-time commitment, I provide seasoned guidance to drive initiatives, align strategies with business objectives, and foster creativity and innovation. As your dedicated advisor, I offer fresh perspectives, valuable insights, and act as a trusted sounding board to ensure design excellence and manage costs effectively.
Venture & spin-off partner
Our venture partner service revitalizes dormant or underperforming intellectual property for business leaders seeking to maximize IP value. We explore strategic options like spin-offs, sales, or market enhancement. By evaluating your IP portfolio, we identify opportunities and craft strategies aligned with your objectives, ensuring a profitable transformation of underutilized assets.
Industrial design
Led by internationally recognized Todd Bracher, our services are ideal for businesses seeking to align design with strategic objectives. We deliver differentiated innovations that enhance brand value and market reach, providing class-leading design execution under his expert guidance.
Mergers & acquisitions
We offer specialized design audit services for mergers and acquisitions, assessing a target company’s design assets. Our thorough evaluations identify untapped potential and areas for enhancement, helping acquirers understand and identify opportunities of interest. This strategic audit integrates with your investment strategy, ensuring informed decisions, successful integration, and maximized ROI.
Capabilities
Our capabilities are grounded in two decades of partnering with leading businesses across various industries. Our services integrate these capabilities, allowing us to deliver tailored outcomes that meet your strategic objectives.
Advisory
Design
Clients
Our client portfolio spans from agile startups to global multinationals, domestic to international, showcasing our versatility and capacity to deliver transformative design solutions across a variety of scales and sectors. Studio Bracher’s ability to understand and adapt to different organizational cultures and business models enables us to offer tailored, impactful design strategies that drive success, regardless of your company’s size.
Schedule a consultation
Contact us for a brief strategy consultation session. We'll know quickly whether we are the right team to get your idea to market. If we're not the right fit, we'll connect you with experts in our network who are.