The innovation consultancy

We guide organizations through transformations like digitalization, customer-centricity, and the shift to becoming value-adding partners.

What we do

It's easy to get started working with us - and instead of providing theory and expecting you to figure out the rest, we work together with you to ramp up your team's skills and capabilities as quickly as possible.

Strategy

Service design

Ways of working

Finding out the future of healthcare

Turn on the evening news on any given day and you’ll likely hear variations on the same theme: The healthcare system is under pressure to change: Modernize, digitalize, speed up, be more efficient. But where does all this change lead to and what does the future of the healthcare system look like? Vertical set out to answer these questions and more in the Future Trajectories of Healthcare study.

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A-lehdet

Rethinking business models for A-lehdet

"The media industry has been struggling for years" sounds like a quote from ‘Captain Obvious’ — but while it may be common knowledge, potential solutions to the problem can be more obscure and unusual. That was definitely the case in the work that we conducted for one of Finland’s oldest publishing houses, A-lehdet.

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Stora Enso

Enabling agile transformation

Stora Enso, a global renewable materials company, internally recruited 18 employees to work for 3 months with 6 startup companies. Their aim was to explore and work towards opportunities in the Circular Economy.

Varian

Finding solutions for radiation therapy

Varian experts have kicked-off partnership negotiations with 6 companies in AI/ML and innovation for cancer treatment. After a round of internal interest check Varian will reach out to some of these teams offering them to become a part of Varian Innovation Center.

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Scouting

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Latest thoughts

The Patient Journey Way of Working

The patient journey way of working helps you understand how patients experience treatment within a healthcare ecosystem - and prioritize where you can take action to have the best possible impact on their life.

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Highlights from the Future of Healthcare panel

If healthcare in Finland is in crisis, how can we fix it? Find out what the experts in our Future of Healthcare event panel had to say about ensuring a thriving healthcare system now and in the future.

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Building toward continuity in healthcare

Healthcare is in an acute crisis. With fewer resources available and demand constantly increasing, the pressure is threatening to break the entire system. But there is light. Ahead of our Future of Healthcare event, we sat down with Kati Liukko, Director of Healthcare Services and Medical Care for the Vantaa-Kerava Wellbeing Services County in southern Finland.

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Contact us

Want to accelerate your transformation?
Let's discuss!

We'd love to set up a short meeting to hear about your challenges and goals.

We hope you'll get some fresh insights and new ideas for accelerating your healthcare transformation - and if there is potential for us to help you, all the better. But no strings attached!

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Please get in touch with Kenneth Salonius if you have any questions or want to discuss further.

Kenneth Salonius

Strategy | Collaboration | Sales

kenneth@vertical.vc
+358 50 517 2348