We Specialise in Creating Full-Circle Insights Solutions
Optima believe insight discovery is only half the equation. In order to harness the true power of insights, we need to take them full-circle. This means following where insights lead us – to fully explore the opportunities they reveal and creatively and purposefully leverage our insights into actionable ideas.
We know that everyone has different levels of comfort and capability when it comes to insights discovery, so our Full-Circle Insights Solutions approach is designed to meet you wherever you are. We want to help you choose the right direction and level of insights consultancy, partnership, training and support you need to tackle your specific business challenges and achieve your capability development, communications and NPD goals.


Insights Consultancy:
The ‘we do it for you’ option
Optima tackles your brand or business challenges on a consultancy basis, immersing ourselves in your business so we discover the insights and the opportunities to put into action.
Whether you need a complete approach, or want us step in at a specific stage on the journey from insights through to implementation – Optima can join you there.
WE OFFER:
- Insights Consultancy – for all, or any part of the journey
- Specific intervention to polish or refine draft language
- Strategic Brand Positioning and Brand Identity
- Innovation Platforms and NPD Creative Springboards
- Competitor and Category Insights
- Archetypes and Insights for Brand Development
- Insight-driven Customer Value Propositions

Insights-into-Action Creative Journeys:
The ‘we do it with you’ option
Optima leads and partners with individuals or whole teams on ‘live’ insights-into-action journeys that are collaborative, creative, connected and purposeful from start to finish.
Each creative journey is designed to address a real-time business challenge. Together, we start with insights discovery and then push onwards to put our insights into action. Leveraging our insights as creative springboards for ideation, we will generate a variety of NPD, brand positioning or communication ideas, powerfully brought to life as research-ready concepts.
Each journey is driven by a real-time business challenge, and taken full-circle from data to insight discovery. Leveraging insights to generate new product, brand or communication ideas – and onwards into research-ready concepts.
WE OFFER:
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Bespoke ‘Live Challenge’ Insights Journeys for teams and individuals
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Strategic Brand Positioning Journeys – using insight to create and explore positioning alternatives
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Insights into Innovation Journeys – discovering and leveraging insights into NPD or new service ideas
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Professionally-facilitated Creative Innovation/Ideation Workshops
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Concept Crafting and Creative Research Collaboration

Insights Capability Development:
The ‘we teach you how to do it’ option
Our Insights Capability Development embeds insights as an essential skill-set within your organisation. The focus is on long-term empowerment and lasting behaviour change through learning.
Using a blend of best practice examples and our bespoke tools, we empower teams or individuals with the skill, know-how, inspiration and our Full-Circle process for turning data into actionable insights that can be leveraged into brand-building ideas.
WE OFFER:
- Full-Circle Insights Capability Development for Teams
- Insights Master-Classes
- e-learning Training Solutions
- Learning Interventions and Live-Challenge Coaching
BITE-SIZED LEARNING TOOLS AND SUPPORT FOR:
- Sourcing and Creating Inspirational Data and Stimulus
- Doing an Insights ‘Deep Dive’
- Turning Insights Into Action
- Concept Crafting Excellence

Train-the-Trainer Insights Leadership:
The ‘we train you to become an insights leader’ option
Train-the-Trainer is the ultimate offering in insights capability training.
In this training intensive, candidates will be taught the full insights toolkit, plus the behind-the-scenes learning to empower them to become successful facilitators and leaders of insights discovery projects within their organisation.
Our bespoke Train-the-Trainer Insights Leadership Programmes are designed specifically for you. By understanding the real-world context and application of insights for your teams and organisation, we develop the ideal journey from data to insight to action that meets your needs, embeds best practice and inspires lasting confidence.
WE OFFER:
- Bespoke Train-the-Trainer Insights Leadership Programmes
- e-learning Training Solutions
- Digital Training Tutorials, Check-in’s and Support
- Learning Interventions and Live-Challenge Coaching

Concept Crafting:
Our foundations were built on creating insight-driven, research-ready concepts for qualitative and quantitative exploration and validation:
Our new product and service concepts bring every idea to life for optimal resonance and relevance. We have a proven track record for winning with consumers and customers and achieving ‘top-box’ research scores.
We develop Brand Positioning concepts, visuals and brand manifestos which bring to life the positioning alternatives clearly and distinctively to ensure the different avenues can be meaningfully explored.
Our Communications concepts or ‘Adcepts’ are creative and strategically differentiated. They have the potent language to paint colourful word pictures with the clarity to engage, connect and build bridges between consumers and conceptual ideas.
WE OFFER:
- Research-ready NPD or Service Concepts
- Brand Positioning Concepts and Brand Manifestos
- Product Positioning alternatives and Range Concepts
- New Communication Concepts (Adcepts)
- Writing or Refining Communications/Agency Creative Briefs
- Super-charged new Claims development
- Packaging Copy and Higher-order Benefit Statements

Devon | United Kingdom
T: (+44) 01803 732 796
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