Lumity

A Cosmos Strategy Social Sector Vertical

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What makes us different

Five differences. The first two are arguments — they change how the work is done. The last three are conditions — they change who does it.

Difference A

An insight-centred approach

Most consultants take your organisation apart. We look for the one thing it should be built around.

The traditional approach

Incremental to algorithmic. Engineering.

  • Top-down break-up of the problem
  • Bottom-up synthesis of the solution parts
  • The organisation read as a sum of parts

Incremental. It breaks a problem into pieces, solves each piece, and reassembles them — reading an organisation as the sum of its parts.

Our approach

Transformative to modern. Insight-centred. A doctor's method.

  • Core insights about the problem
  • The organisation and enterprise reimagined concentrically around them
  • The organisation read as an engine fuelled by differentiated insight

Transformative. We find the core insight, the human truth at the centre of the problem, and reimagine the organisation concentrically around it. An organisation is not a sum of parts. It is an engine, and insight is its fuel.

Insight at the centre of performance and organisation — not insight applied function by function.

Difference B

From empathy to execution, without a break in the chain

Strategy is the choice of actions — not the choice of intent or direction. Most strategy work stops three rungs short of that.

From empathy to assured successNine nested arcs rising from a shared baseline. Empathy is innermost and smallest; each successive stage — insights, imperatives, strategy as hero actions, objectives, mission and purpose, star shifts, proof of concept and execution oversight — encloses the ones before it, with assured success as the outermost arc.01Empathy02Insights03Imperatives04Strategy : hero actions — front & back05Objectives | Goals | Metrics06Mission | Purpose | Vision | Definition07Star shifts : start | stop | continue08Proof of concept & execution oversight09Assured success
  1. 01Empathy
  2. 02Insights
  3. 03Imperatives
  4. 04Strategy : hero actions — front & back
  5. 05Objectives | Goals | Metrics
  6. 06Mission | Purpose | Vision | Definition
  7. 07Star shifts : start | stop | continue
  8. 08Proof of concept & execution oversight
  9. 09Assured success
Difference C

Practitioner-led, across both worlds

A rare blend of for-profit rigour and social sector depth, with senior hands-on talent at every stage. Seventy per cent of our experience is client-side — we have sat where you sit.

Meet the team

  • 500+years of cumulative practitioner experience
  • ~100years of collective development sector experience
  • 70%of our experience is client-side, 30% advisory
Difference D

Intensive collaborative workshops

Three-hundred-and-sixty-degree solution co-creation with organisation teams, communities, funders and stakeholders. Our preferred mode is collaborative rather than transactive: we work alongside your people, not adjacent to them.

  • 360°co-creation — teams, communities, funders, stakeholders
  • 2modes: collaborative by preference, transactive where a brief demands it
Difference E

Cross-domain expertise

Patterns and solutions from sixty-plus industries, every inhabited continent and diverse management types, carried into social sector contexts with cultural sensitivity.

Fifty-seven questions as evidence

  • 60+industries whose patterns we carry across
  • 9proprietary IP suites
  • 58questions we have been asked, and answered