The long game is the shortest path
Path is a design-led insight and strategy consultancy
We help you play the long game for innovation and transformation in digital, products and services
The long game is like compound interest for change
Deep change is hard. It's all too easy to get caught in false starts or paralysis.
The counter-intuitive move is to step back and build the foundations of a strong long game.
Playing the long game means taking action with context, towards your purpose. You can achieve this through insight, design and strategy.
Our deep experience in innovation and transformation for digital, products and services can help you unlock the compounding benefits of the long game.
Can playing the long game help you move forward faster?
Our playbook can help you front-load the contextual awareness you need to harness a bias for action to your strategic purpose.
Frame
Start with context
Shape
Shape your next step
Make
Build and learn
Scale
Develop your capabilities
What we do
Collaboratively map the Current State of a product or service and create a clear benchmark for transformation.
Outcomes in 7 days
Strategic Snapshot is a structured 4 week program that rapidly supplements your strategic planning with customer feedback and expert evaluation.
Outcomes in 4 weeks
Insight
Discover the unexpected and create the products and services your customers, employees and stakeholders need and want.
Embedded Team
Move forward with speed and confidence by bringing Path's skills and experience into your team, as much or as little as needed.
Writing
Leading together – how we can give each other the gift of leadership
If we think of leadership as a gift that we offer to each other, rather than a fixed title or a hierarchy, we can help our team expand their potential for change.
In conversation: Discussing Path’s playbook with founder Jaimes Nel
Path's new editor Shai Rama spent some time with founder Jaimes Nel to find out how experiments and Fast Feedback can inform more successful strategy.
Let a thousand flowers bloom: why we need to be mindful of framework monoculture
Frameworks have an important role in democratising knowledge, supporting collaboration and accelerating outcomes, but not at the expense of creative, fit-for-purpose outcomes that make a compelling difference.
