Aligning People with Purpose.
Developing a Resilient Economy.
Optimizing Innovation Outcomes.
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Applied Research
Our global research experts collaborate in multi- disciplinary fields.
Design Authority
Where vast Industry expertise meets today's problems, our collective intelligence forms the authority to lead design.
Innovation Architecture
Systems Innovation leads in complex challenges to help drive Impactful Outcomes. Open Strategy leads the application of new technologies.
Smart Systems Experts
Smart Buildings, Cities and Regions across many interdependent systems utilize our research in standards and reference frameworks.
Our Core Services
Rural Resilience Design Group
A Social Innovation led consortium to create a sustaining economic shift for the Great Plains of North America.
This Bi National project will tackle key challenges in Rural Communities, Reconciliation strategies for Indigenous Peoples and Economic Resilience and Sustainability using the application of proven new innovations.
From the Digital Divide to Disaster Resilience and Optimizing Water and Agriculture resources, The Dynamic Range covers the stack.
We are working under the NIST Smart Regions Supercluster for Rural Regions in both Canada and the United States.
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3Open Labs
Redesigning Innovation Ecosystems to deliver sustaining innovation and demand based skills to ensure future Economic Resilience.
Utilizing Open Systems, Open Strategy and Open Innovation to enable IP to move freely to commercialization with capacity building partners.
Aligning People, Purpose, Process, Technologies and Data to orchestrate capabilities and combined value streams from Academia to Export Development stages.
Our Pivotsuite platform is being utilized to apply protection for IP and allow Academic Partners to participate in global challenges like the Dynamic Range.
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SoT(x)
A Joint Venture with Strategy of Things designed to deliver “Innovation as a Service” for global stakeholders in Smart Cities, Buildings and leverage IP from the world’s leading academic research partners.
SoT(x) is an Innovation Lab that helps de-risk large Smart Systems based Infrastructure Projects with proven Smart City/ Regions Frameworks, Application Blueprints, Customized Technology Roadmaps and Tools and specific market ready deployment Playbooks.
SoT works with NIST, IEEE, and several International Infrastructure Construction Partners to develop value forward services supporting the creation and adoption of standards.
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Our Team
Craig Stark
Managing Director
Craig leads Business Development and Innovation Strategy in Smart Regions and Innovation Ecosystems. He is founder of Pivotsuite and developed the "3Open Flow" model of IP to market via 3Open Labs, developed with years of experience supporting Academic Lab to Market and Economic Development initiatives.
Craig is Managing Director in Canada for Strategy of Things, a Silicon Valley based leader in Smart Systems consulting.
James Van Leeuwen
Innovation Architect
James leads the Dynamic Range Project and Scientific Research. Previously, James established consulting firm Ventus Development Services in 2002, specializing in strategic communications and designing, developing and delivering initiatives to leverage information and communication technology (ICT) for community, enterprise and economic development.
Benson Chan
Senior Partner
Benson is a Founding Partner at Strategy of Things and Partner in the SoT(x) Innovation as a Service business.
Benson has extensive experience in Smart City, Regions and "Deep Dive" capabilities into Industry Applications and recently completed the 10 year NIST IoT Industry research project.