News: Magnetic nominated for Financial Times award

We’re really pleased to have been nominated as one of the Financial Times UK’s Leading Management Consultants for 2020. The FT wouldn’t reveal which of our clients nominated us, so we chatted to a few of them to find out why they thought we’d made the list.

We were humbled to discover six simple reasons, outlined below:

1. We help people think differently

We’re a diverse bunch of misfits and bring cognitive thinking to business problems.

“You don’t look like consultants. You’re very colourful.” – Business in the UA.

2. We help businesses go faster

We do customer-centred product and service design at such pace that we transform the way people work.

“Through doing rather than talking, Magnetic has demonstrated the power of rapid sprint experimentation. In doing so, you've given us the conviction that this is the only way forward for us to create the best experience of the brand. That's not a bad legacy in the space of eight weeks.” – President, global chocolate brand

3. We help people get comfortable with uncertainty

We de-risk innovation, helping people take small steps towards an ambitious vision.

“The way Magnetic experiments has made me comfortable with uncertainty. It’s OK not to have all the answers straight away.” – associate at one of the world’s leading engineering firms

4. We work with you. You're the expert

We don’t profess to have all the answers and always work shoulder to shoulder with businesses.

“There’s a willingness to learn from both sides of the equation. Magnetic do what’s necessary to do the job, rather than try to fit a new situation into a pre-existing box. You don’t twist the job like a pretzel into something you feel Magnetic can do.” – Principal Impact Assessment Engineer at a London Borough Council

5. We help businesses take bold steps

We use experiments to test ideas and help our clients be brave.

“Stellar stuff. Magnetic’s hard work over the past four weeks has been genuinely transformative.” – MD, the UK’s fastest growing mobile phone network

6. We inspire people

We build capability and the right culture as we go, ensuring what we create is sustainable well into the future.

“Every day Magnetic challenged my perceptions on the right way to do things. I has helped me formulate a better understanding of agile behaviour, design thinking and leadership in general.” – Chief Customer Officer, leading UK nsurer

Thanks again to the Financial Times and the brilliant people we work with. We really are quite proud.