Driving Innovative Solutions
Placemaking
People make the place. MCL curates dynamic spaces for up-and-coming retailers, F&B, hospitality, and cultural institutions to fit with a development’s goals and objectives, values, and the local culture of the community. We work in partnership with some of the most innovative brands in the world helping them expand their footprint to new and redeveloped locations, creating the perfect mix of diverse brands focused on sustainability, technology, and culture.
Creator Studio Design and Development
A creator studio is a dedicated space for not only your brand to create cutting edge content, but for your influencers, employees and most loyal customers to collaboratively develop content. Whether the studio will be used for livestream shopping, developing a YouTube show or creating state of the art tutorials, we'll outfit the space to meet your needs and ensure it’s flexible to cover all of the various forms of content you plan on producing.
Innovation Scorecard
Are you ready for what’s ahead? Are you utilizing new and innovative solutions to transform your business and people? Our Innovation Scorecard evaluates your activities across our six dimensions of innovation excellence, per expertise categories: Retail, Workplace, Mobility and Tech. We’ll gauge your success, provide an understanding of the gaps, and offer tangible opportunities for you to address with speed.
Innovation Journeys
Innovation Journeys take you around the globe, immersing you head-first into the world of innovation where you'll meet the pioneers changing the future, understand disruptive business models, and obtain insights to overcome your biggest challenges. Journeys are your backstage pass to the world of innovation. Our Journeys focus on Retail, Workplace and Talent, Mobility and Tech.
Concept Sprints
A proven methodology for solving problems through designing, prototyping, and testing ideas with users. We develop ideas and concepts within a fast (2-5-day) process oriented workflow. Our process-driven methodology is customized to fit your needs and objectives, with you included in this process along with a select team of experts from our vast network. Concept Sprints quickly align teams under a shared vision with clearly defined goals and deliverables.
Concept Design
Bringing innovative ideas to life is complicated. It involves an understanding of people's needs and how to meet them with products, services, and processes. Our team of conceptual thinkers and makers design interactions, experiences, processes, and strategies to develop an idea into a conceptual prototype. We design new value propositions and innovative business models to fuel new growth. We develop technical and commercial proof-of-concepts and leverage emerging technologies to unlock a new competitive edge. Our capabilities, all rooted in design, include: Innovation and Strategy, Graphic Design and Brand Design, Product Design, Space Design, Retail Design Strategy.
Programming & Experiences
We create meaningful and innovative real-world and virtual experiences that inspire action through the development of bespoke event and content concepts. Whether it’s for a thousand person conference, hundred person summit, or company internal meet up, we bring the right people together around new formats and topics. Our immersive experiences help professionals understand the new developments in retail, workplace, mobility and tech at a deeper level.
Speakers & Thought Leaders
The right speaker can inspire, teach, bring people together, and motivate action. Through our global network of pioneers and thought-leaders we provide speakers ranging across many theme and topic areas. Our speakers have diverse backgrounds and range from top professors to business executives to successful entrepreneurs, who have all mastered the art of storytelling and creating memorable experiences. Whether it's a keynote, panel discussion, or workshop, we’ll work with you to curate the right list of speakers and ensure they make your event or gathering one-of-a-kind.
Expert Network
Have a challenge and need deep category expertise that you can’t find internally? Or just need a sparring partner to provide actionable feedback on concepts? Our vast global network of 1,000+ experts, cultural correspondents and early adopters will help you solve your challenges and realize your business potential. They can connect you to the audiences and culture that will define your future customer base. Whether virtually or in-person, our experts can support you with a conversation or long-term project work.
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Research & Insights
Our research platform supports the trends intelligence efforts of strategy, retail, human resources & talent, and innovation teams around the world. Our library of real-world primary research, secondary expert analysis and on-demand research services help these teams stay ahead of the curve.