About Studio Zao
Our Principles and Values
We work with a diverse and expanding range of clients, across multiple industry sectors.
We pride ourselves on delivering excellent client outcomes and learning from every engagement, while having fun too.
It’s important to us to operate by a few key principles in all of our work and projects.
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Our work is always guided by customer needs and market conditions to deliver productivity and value.
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We aim to be practical, pragmatic and fast to be more leaner with resources and reduce the time it takes to deliver value.
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We help clients build the capability to run and operate their innovation engine repeatedly and sustainably, without us.
Testimonials
“The insight gathering, casting, research, planning, delivery and amalgamation into the final published report was well executed. The team brought expertise and an elevation of the conversation which enabled South London Partnership to play a convening role and allowed organisations from a range of sectors to collaborate openly in shaping the discussions and outcomes. Studio Zao are quick, responsive and work efficiently which was essential for this piece of work. The team were tenacious and helped us keep on track to deliver at pace.”
Polly Persechino,
Head of Economy, Skills and Employment, South London Partnership
“Working with Studio Zao has been innovative and refreshing. Their methodology has shaped our Digital and AI strategy, helping us navigate VUCA challenges with agility. We’ve developed real digital innovation use cases across Pharma, Beauty, and LATAM teams, incorporating their lean methodology to minimise risk and boost business success.”
Fabio Di Memmo
Vice President, Digitalisation, AptarGroup
“Studio Zao have been an instrumental partner for us in SFP. They have been helping us innovate on our agile journey, taking us from a strategic framing of the opportunity to piloting in practice. They blend the ability to engage strategically to frame and communicate innovative change while also making it simple and pragmatic to put into practice, deliver value, and always a pleasure to work with.”
Benoit Henry,
Agile Transformation Lead, PMI Smoke-Free Products
“Studio Zao worked with us all the way through a complex journey involving academia, large and small business, running two successful workshops and hacks. This has given us a highly engaged network to back our bid for further UK Innovate funding.”
Gary Frost,
Professor of Nutrition and Dietetics, Imperial College London
“Studio Zao took us through a strategic and immersive venture building process. It was insightful to see how the teams’ propositions transformed through customer engagement and validation, with three propositions going forward into pilots and a number of entrepreneurial talents recognised in the business.”
Emily Haynes,
Head of Incubation, Pentland Brands