Growth Forge

RATING:

4.6

(7)
Overview

About Growth Forge

Growth Forge is a cloud-based software as a service that helps innovation teams formulate, model, and evaluate business strategies to iteratively develop concepts from a hypothesis into a real business. The software builds on many well-established tools, methods, and best practices but makes them interactive, adaptable, and interoperable. It combines aspects of project management, analytics, financial, and collaboration software, all integrated and optimized for managing innovation, strategy, and new business growth at the project, group, or company-wide portfolio level. Before founding BRI, we spent several decades developing new businesses within a large Fortune 500 technology company. We learned the hard way what works, what doesn't, and most importantly, why the th...

Growth Forge Pricing

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Focus your activities based on the strategic topic or question that your trying to address and the maturity of your business along the lifecycle from concept to market traction.
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Growth Forge Reviews

Overall Rating

4.6

Ratings Breakdown

Secondary Ratings

Ease-of-use

4.5

Customer Support

4.5

Value for money

4.5

Functionality

5

Most Helpful Reviews for Growth Forge

7 Reviews

Shawn

Higher Education, 501 - 1,000 employees

Used less than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

OVERALL RATING:

5

Reviewed August 2022

Making Innovation Practical

Anonymous

10,000+ employees

Used monthly for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

4

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed December 2023

Easy to use and action oriented

PROS

Growth Forge helps our team explore options and measure them against each other with ease.

CONS

Full analysis of a new business idea can be time consuming for new users.

Shawn

Higher Education, 201-500 employees

Used weekly for less than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed July 2022

Making Innovation Practical

I think the main challenge we face is being practical with our ideas. I work in an environment where people like shiny objects. I also think that people believe innovation is magic created by one very creative person. This tool has been critical to helping people understand the real work that needs to be done in innovation, and it has been helpful on more one occasion to support arguments I'm trying to make regarding either the need to double down on an idea or to let something go.

PROS

The first time I saw Growth Forge I was eager to get to work with it. Having struggled to find something that would help me to do incubation work effectively, I was enthused that the creators had put this together for use for someone like me who was not trained in business but was tasked with model incubation. I think that the way in which the materials are laid out to help guide someone through the design of a real project are better than many of the other innovation sets that have been put out before. This was the most practical tool that I have ever found to support someone who is doing product development.

CONS

As a new technology, it has a few bugs here and there, but I found the developers to be open to feedback and able to make immediate changes. However, these bugs were few and far between, so it's been a non-issue mostly for the completion of my work.

Michael

Research, 10,000+ employees

Used weekly for less than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra

OVERALL RATING:

4

EASE OF USE

3

VALUE FOR MONEY

4

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed July 2022

Great 1-stop business planning and business development tool

Great learning experience and now an integral component of our strategic pipeline.

PROS

Educational aspect that enables users to learn while doing.

CONS

Navigating sections and understanding how they are interconnected.

thomas

Information Technology and Services, 1 employee

Used daily for less than 6 months

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

4

EASE OF USE

4

VALUE FOR MONEY

4

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

4

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed October 2023

Growth Forge excellent Business Innovation Product platform

PROS

Outstanding collection and use of business tools ranging from strategic to financial modeling of the business venture. In addition, the dashboard and "what if" capabilities allow for the user/team to model expected outcome and identification of project/product market issues that can both be tested (before major investment) and increase visibility to the project on how to strategically pivot for maximum impact.

CONS

A bit challenging to learn. Requires domain knowledge for business innovation and financial modeling for optimum success.

Ashish

Management Consulting, 1 employee

Used monthly for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed July 2022

Innovation discipline

PROS

Growth Forge is an excellent guided, concierge-like, tool that helps business leaders understand realistic growth trajectories for their ideas. It points out common variables that impact performance, and highlights key variables that are currently helping/hindering innovation success.

CONS

Admittedly for the first-time user, there can be a steep learning curve. But once you get past that, it's a powerful tool.

Curtis

Consumer Goods, 10,000+ employees

Used monthly for less than 6 months

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

4

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

4

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

4

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed November 2023

Excellent tool for evaluating and prioritizing business opportunities

PROS

Ease of use and all the features available. Ability to have historical reference over time from past evaluations.

CONS

The base platform is excellent. Once more users can experiment with it and use it the more feedback can be incorporated.

7 Reviews