Overcoming the barriers to product innovation

eCommerce is table stakes

eCommerce still matters, but it’s ubiquitous. By contrast, more sophisticated digital products and marketplaces enable customers to interact with brands and products in new ways, delivering a differentiated experience.

eCommerce is table stakes

Scaling products is a real obstacle

All too often, even promising digital products are more like experiments than durable business tools. Learning how to scale these products – and building the capabilities and culture to do so – is a significant challenge.

Scaling products is a real obstacle

Concept to reality is a jump – and a risk

Even for the biggest enterprises, actually selecting an idea and committing to bringing it to life is a daunting effort – especially when creating a product or marketplace that represents an entirely new business model.

Concept to reality is a jump – and a risk

A global partner for brands innovating business-as-usual

Pactera EDGE leverages deep customer empathy to create relevant digital products and marketplaces that meet critical business needs.

Design Thinking

Design Thinking

To create truly valuable digital products and marketplaces requires hard-won user insight. By exploring your customers’ emotions and motivations, our team discovers their real needs, pursues unexpected solutions, and works alongside customers to evaluate and validate our ideas.
Design Sprint

Design Sprint

Our unique FUEL methodology employs a series of design sprints – accelerated periods where our team moves from concept to prototype, to testing a Minimum Lovable Product in a matter of days, rather than weeks or months.
Fit Assessment

Fit Assessment

The goal of digital product development is to achieve a fit between customer need, market opportunity, and business capability. The Pactera EDGE team employs a robust prototyping stage where we explore how customers interact with the product and determine whether it meets all stakeholders’ needs.
Minimum Lovable Product

Minimum Lovable Product

A Minimum Lovable Product is an offering that can win customers’ hearts with the minimum investment of money and effort. Working towards an MLP gives you quick, inexpensive customer validation, ensuring you have the confidence to move forward and scale your best ideas.
Lean Innovation

Lean Innovation

Design thinking can show you the right problems to solve and generate solutions. But for execution, you need other qualities: efficiency, transparency, scalability. Our lean innovation approach provides a framework for prioritization and sprint-based iteration, preparing the business to deliver at scale.
Innovation Training

Innovation Training

Innovative products can transform businesses, but they come with a learning curve. Our FUELcore training program is a 3-day curriculum that embodies FUEL’s learn-by-doing approach to help your business embrace new technology and move forward with confidence and clarity.