WHAT WE DO

Unconventional 10 x growth

As a Boutique of Extreme INNOVATION SERVICES, we help our clients experience fast and sustainable processes, turning ideas into outcomes.
The ability to enter the market from the off-set with a valuable solution and to make a habit of this process is the greatest competitive advantage you can have.

Discover how our unconventional strategies are designed to accelerate your business challenges and increase the speed of solutions delivered to the market place by up to 10 times. We’ve successfully tested our strategies in fields as diverse as Public Administration organizations, High Performance Sports Companies or Start-up’s. 
UNCONVENTIONAL SPEED X 10 BOX? WHAT BOX? OF A PROJECT
CONVENTIONAL SPEED OF A PROJECT

Unconventional services

UNCONVENTIONAL
VS. CONVENTIONAL
WHAT WE DO DIFFERENT COMPARED TO THE CONVENTIONAL CONSULTING APPROACH? ​
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DISCOVER TO WHAT EXTENT AN UNCONVENTIONAL STRATEGY CAN ACCELERATE YOUR BUSINESS.
UNCONVENTIONAL
LEARNING LAUNCH
TRAINING IN UNCONVENTIONAL DESIGN STRATEGIES

TO ENSURE YOUR TEAM BECOMES A TRANSFORMATION CELL, ABLE TO DESIGN AND DEPLOY YOUR OWN SOLUTIONS.
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UNCONVENTIONAL
STRATEGIC DESIGN
UNCONVENTIONAL
​STRATEGIC DESIGN
 WE BUILD HIGH PERFORMANCE TEAMS ABLE TO FACE  ALL KINDS OF CHALLENGES AND WE DESIGN AND EFFECT QUICK BUSINESS TRANSFORMATIONS / INNOVATIONS (SERVICES & PRODUCTS).

“You’d be amazed at how fast you can get going with a tiny acceleration over a long time”.

Andy Weir  - The Martian

WHO WE ARE

Unconventional thinkers

ESTEBAN MELÉNDEZ

(+34) 680 352 875
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CHIEF THINKER & ORCHESTRA CONDUCTOR

MSc Industrial Engineering & Industrial Management, MBA, Professional SCRUM Master, Professional Certified Executive & Team Coach (PCC) by International Coach Federation (ICF), Certified LEGO® SERIOUS PLAY® for Coaching, Design Thinker & Business Designer, Lean & Agile Advisor. A Change Agent focused on people and thrilled by real and quick solutions. More than 20 years helping businesses grow in non traditional ways. Has introduced some revolutionary approaches and tools to build teams and get outcomes when no-one thought it possible.
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+23

YEARS OF
​EXPERIENCE
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+50

PROJECTS
​COMPLETED
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+20

DIFFERENT
​COUNTRIES
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+190

MILLIONS OF € INVESTED
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+5.000

MILLIONS OF € GENERATED

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WHO WE WORKED WITH

Unconventional people & organizations

We work with open minded people, teams and organizations looking for alternative frameworks and tools focused on the  release of valuable and agile solutions to the market. People that need to manage alternative strategies to stand out from  the rest of the players in the market.
 
Leaders, teams and organizations used to operating  on uncertain playing fields, involved in projects that demand management of  crowd stakeholders, being ubiquitous, making time where there is none, predicting the future, stretching resources as if they were unlimited… And getting solutions 10 times faster. 

These leaders and teams of “superheroes” face daily decision making processes that shape the viability of the team itself and the organization to which they belong.
LIDERS
TEAMS
ORGANIZATIONS
THESE ARE SOME OF THE COMPANIES AND ORGANIZATIONS WE HAVE ALREADY WORKED WITH
Tobías Zisik
Sales Director of Europcar
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WHAT THEY SAY ABOUT US
 "Always focused on business results, with well-argued demands and high speed in execution. Anyone who wants to give a new approach to his project and wants to get results in the short term should count on Esteban"

HOW DO WE DO IT

Unconventional thinking

BUSINESS CHALLENGES
TIME REDUCTION
QUICK SOLUTIONS
At BOX?WHATBOX? we accelerate the procuring of actual solutions for complex business challenges in complex playing fields. We imagine, design, build, and deploy fast smart Project experiences without loss of scope or increased resources.
The conventional strategy of any business consultant is focusing on what “no one has seen before”. Our unconventional strategies are focused on teaching our clients what “nobody has thought before, but everyone sees”.

BUSINESS CHALLENGES  X  TIME REDUCTION  =  QUICK SOLUTIONS

WHICH KIND OF TOOLS ARE INVOLVED

At BOX?WHATBOX? we mix together, shake-up, and experiment with all kinds of approaches that we consider useful for each real-life situation. We formulate specific combinations of tools and frameworks so as to adapt to each business challenge in real time. There are no two similar combinations, as there are no two equal challenges. 25 years experience  make us master blenders, rather than experts in isolated tools.
LEAN, AGILE (SCRUM), DESIGN THINKING, WEAK SIGNALS APPROACH &
EFFECTIVE TEAM COACHING provide the framework-mix foundation on which we build our strategies. Diverse tools such as LEGO-SERIOUS-PLAY o STORYTELLING MANAGEMENT facilitate the design, construction and agile deployment of solutions.

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Conventional vs. Unconventional

THE CONVENCIONAL STRATEGY
OF BUSINESS CONSULTANTS
Almost always the same consultant team for each different challenge. Experts in almost everything.
THE UNCOVENTIONAL STRATEGY
OF BOX? WHAT BOX?
Each business challenge is different and has its own requirements. People should change depending on the challenge. Not only market or industry experts, but change agents should be enrolled in the project as well. Having technical or comercial experience doesn't necessarily mean you can manage people’s abilities in effective ways, increase velocity, find out the most suitable solutions or learn on the way. If we don't have the most suitable people we look for them. If we don't find them, we don't tackle the project.
Focused on defining in advance non flexible plans, sketching Gantt diagrams, tasks, milestones and rigid windows of time. Wasting precious time building an unreal scenario that  can never be met.  Squandering more time changing original plans again and again until finally it is conceded  that targets can not be met. ​
We look at Business challenges as if they were living creatures.  Discovering better and faster ways to solve problems and make decisions, allowing for more agility and surety along the way. We define and redefine goal deadlines based on learning achieved along the way.
Always employing the same tools and frameworks, those that are familiar and comfortable. Always thinking inside the box.
We experiment with, mix together and shake up all kinds of tools and approaches that we consider useful. We formulate specific combinations so as to adapt to each individual challenge. Always thinking out of the box.
The customer hasn’t the right to change its requirements “under penalty” of increments to cost and time devoted.
New customer requirements on the fly are welcome. They are managed and prioritized to not impact on the budget or on objectives.
Documentation and the “weight” of files is an indicator of usesfulness. There is a direct relation between papers generated and commitment to task.
Solutions that work don’t require much documentation. We put learning experience and real solutions before explanations and documentation. Do not expect much paper with us. Do expect solutions.
Customers’ technical and emotional dependency is increased so as to maximize the time spent achieving goals and the possibilities of stringing out projects.
We co-work with the client only as long as necessary, until they’re able to tackle challenge autonomously.
Knowledge of the customers’ business is taken away by the team to be applied in future projects.  Yet, No fresh and useful methodologies or tools are gifted  to the client.
Equally as important as the solution, are the thinking strategies and tools to tackle the challenge. We transfer knowledge and methodologies to the customer in order that they can apply them in future challenges. Our goal is independence.
Decision making and solutions deployment don’t speed up throughout the project. The status is always a “work in progress”. There are no valuable or fully operative intermediate solutions. There is 1 whole solution, which is always at the finish of the project.
We are committed to a continuous improvement process so as to achieve learning and velocity on the fly. As Mark Watney says in The Martian  “You'd be amazed at how fast you can get going with a tiny acceleration over a long time". We divide the challenge into sprint phases. You'll get incremental, tested and useful solutions as outcomes of each sprint. Solutions will work properly.  It will be on you to release them to the market
Responsibilities and data are transferred amongst different people and teams.
Data and responsibilities transferred between people and teams open the door to disaster. We create self-organizing and cross- functional teams able to plan, manage and build solutions autonomously.
Delays just involve more resources (at the client’s expense) or a reduction in the scope of the solutions.
We became aware many years ago that increasing the number of people involved in a project has a detrimental effect on solving delay problems. We keep the number of people in the team always under figures of two digits so as to keep it agile and autonomous. The goal of the business challenge is always kept as the main focus in order to deliver the solutions that are actually important for the client.
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Unconventional learning Launch

TRAINING FOCUSED ON UNCONVENTIONAL STRATEGIC DESIGN
If you are committed to maximizing the creativity and learning of your own people, we recommend the LEARNING LAUNCH approach. In a short time period, with an experiential and practical approach, we help you and your team to understand our strategies and the challenges to which they can apply.

We will give out fishing rods your people will find the solutions. We believe in the ability of people to assimilate and deploy a fresh and more efficient mindset more focused on meeting their goals. 

Once inspired, you may want to get to work on your challenge of transformation/innovation autonom ously, or take advantage of our UNCONVENTIONAL STRATEGIC DESIGN approach.
If you are interested in having a personalized LEARNING LAUNCH training for your team, feel free to contact us in order to arrange an interview that will be very inspiring.
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Unconventional Strategic Design

When you have to deal with complex business challenges, the first thing is to count on a high-performance cell (team) able to devise, prototype, test and deploy agile solutions . Able, as well, to learn and gain speed as they go along. We are aware that not all organizations have these kinds of "transformation cells". At BOX? WHATBOX? we help your organization build and commission them by defining the design challenges, unleashing fresh ideas, making decisions, prototyping, co-creating with the end user and deploying solutions.
 
Depending on your initial context, the time available and the creativity and learning you want your team to capture we’ll suggest the best way to address your challenge. We can train and supervise you and your team, build mixed “transformation cells” (your people + BOX?WHATBOX? people), or tackle the challenge with our full BOX?WHATBOX? team. It’s your choice.
If you are interested in having a personalized UNCONVENTIONAL STRATEGIC DESIGN approach for your business Challenge, feel free to contact us in order to arrange an interview that will be very inspiring.
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