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Transforming Customer Needs into Revolutionary Products
Unleash the power of your customers and accelerate your growth
The Future Mill is…
The Perfect Partner
From identifying and validating consumer needs through product launch, we’re ready to help
Customer Insights
The Future Mill leverages rapid testing tools to cut the time it takes to make meaningful decisions from months down to minutes. We have developed several ultra-low cost tools.
Product Strategy
Generating ideas is most effective when a strategic framework exists and the right tools are deployed. The Future Mill network is expert at building robust product pipelines.
Product Development
Knowing WHAT to build and WHY to build it is critical but nothing gets built without knowing HOW to build it. The Future Mill network includes both NPDP and PMP certified professionals.
Training
The Future Mill network includes Industrial Design and Product Development practitioners and educators. Creativity and innovation aren’t rare, they just need nurturing.
Maximizing Consumer Insights to Liberate Ideas that Enable Sustainable Growth
Everyone is unique, complex, and passionate about something. Identifying what makes them so, and building to their needs is the formula the future mill has uses successfully to help companies build robust product roadmaps and execute on those roadmaps for sustained growth.
“Darren’s vast experience in new product concepting and ideation was truly inspiring and helped feed the company’s long term strategic road maps. His expertise in implementing Design Thinking process helped our teams uncover existing consumer challenges and pain points with our products and create new solutions (service & product based) that truly set the company apart from the competition.”
Shadi Ammouri
Product Management Lead – Fisher & Paykel
The Future Mill has Transformed Customer-centric Innovation
Rather than using the traditional consultancy model, the future mill is built from a network of experts in customer research, industrial design, design thinking, product development, engineering, product roadmapping, and strategy. The right resources can be deployed at the right time to maximize every opportunity.
“His contributions were invaluable to our team, particularly in conducting essential consumer research, leading product ideation and new product development, driving enterprise-wide front end innovation strategy, championing organizational adoption/utilization of ethnography as a product development tool, leading industrial design efforts, leading product integration teams during company acquisitions, and leveraging a vast professional network for new product innovation.”
Chuck Eisenhower
Product Manager – BEHR Paint Company
Agile and Future Forward
Having a versatile tool box is what enables the future mill to turn questions into insights in record time and at an appropriate expense. There’s no reason to spend $20,000 and wait 6 months to learn enough to take the next step. Our founder and the network have all been extensively trained in the tools of product development and management, AI powered process acceleration, and in many cases are in-demand trainers themselves.
“Darren has a unique blend of deep customer empathy and the skills to put it into action when designing products that matter. He looks at problems through many different angles and follows it up with quick iterations to find solutions. I thoroughly enjoyed collaborating with him.”
David Bland
Experimentation Advisor | Speaker | Author – Precoil
Growth Happens both towards the Sky and towards the Earth
Sustainable upward growth relies on a foundation of strong roots, this is as true in business as it is in nature. At thefuturemill we look for clients whose roots include ethical practices, investment in human capital, long-term vision, environmental responsibility, community engagement, financial health, and a culture of innovation and adaptation. By leveraging these foundational elements and values, we help foster stability, resilience, and the ability to thrive in dynamic environments, as it is in nature.
” Darren has demonstrated exceptional resourcefulness, creativity, innovation, and drive in his work. He is a problem solver and has identified ways of leveraging research tools that provide quick results that impact the business. His work has identified and validated customer needs and pain points and has been able to marry these needs to technical solutions to yield validated product concepts. This work has been instrumental in the development of our company’s product roadmaps that drive revenue and meet our long range planning targets. “
Greg Williams
Director, Strategic Innovation and Sustainability – BEHR Paint Company
Ready to Transform Your Business?
Let’s Make Tomorrow Today
If you’re ready to take the next step towards faster insights, better informed product strategies, flawlessly executed product development, impactful product launches or if you just need some help thinking of what might be next, the future mill is ready to help.