FiveTwelve Group
FiveTwelve Group is a research-driven innovation, design and strategy consultancy.

We are experts at framing problems and challenges, identifying sources, asking good questions and probing for insight. Working with engaged client teams, we mine feedback, test and re-test concepts and create solutions to complex problems.

Usually, our work is part of business research and development or a business investment. Our projects are designed to arrive at a conclusive decision to design a new product or service, enter or exit a market, invest in people or training, or find a new use for technology.

We bring a wide variety of market engagement techniques, from hosting large-scale, multi-disciplinary charrettes, to conducting robust individual interviews with experts (bucketed with client help), to highly quantitative, online and blind surveying and observation. Of course our projects conclude with a final product - a report, a concept or a specification that includes market size and trends, revenue projections and action plans to make it happen.

But most importantly, our clients gain new insights, important relationships, and keen advantages ensure that specific action can be taken quickly, that inform their work well beyond the project.

Where we're going

We're game for just about any business-to-business challenge, and our partners are perpetual students, adept listeners and creative problem solvers. Our current focus is on:
  • Renewing US manufacturing...
  • ... while embracing the vast opportunities in emerging markets
  • Bridging the talent divide; creating the jobs of the future
  • Smarter, simpler systems in cities, buildings, factories, farms and infrastructure
  • Crowd-sourcing and collaborative problem-solving
  • Decentralized everything - teams, intelligence, organizations, machines
  • Balancing the rush to technology with a place reserved for pragmatism and proven things and ways

Industries we know

Our clients are among the best in their respective markets, including:
  • Energy: Finite and Renewable
  • Water and Wastewater
  • Agriculture and Irrigation
  • Architecture, Planning and Construction
  • Facility Management and Performance Contacting
  • Indoor Environment, LEED, BREEM, NZEB
  • Process, Discrete and LEAN Manufacturing
  • Metals, Mining, Minerals and Paper
  • Chemicals, Oil and Gas
  • Health Care
  • Marine and Outdoor Recreation
  • Distribution and Channel
  • Investment and Private Equity

Technologies we track

To find solutions to problems, we stay abreast of many great technologies and technical processes. Here are a few that we track:
  • Smart Grid EVERYTHING
  • Energy harvesting and storage
  • Geothermal heating, cooling and temperature storage
  • Groundwater mapping and management
  • Water quality and quantity sensing
  • Power quality and energy management
  • Building and process automation
  • Power semiconductors
  • Solar Photovoltaic
  • MIM (Metal Injection Molding)
  • Membrane for water treatment
  • Advanced structural materials