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What do you like best about Growth Forge?

Growth Forge allows our team to manage a portfolio of ideas and explore their potential outcomes in order to make more informed strategies and decisions. Customer Support has been great so far. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Growth Forge?

File referencing can get complicated over time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Growth Forge solving and how is that benefiting you?

In communicating new opportunities, many ideas can easily get lost based on vagueness. Growth Forge helps make our innovation strategies more concrete and specific, and therefore more action oriented. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Growth Forge Overview

What is 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.

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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.


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BRI, LLC
Year Founded
2017
HQ Location
Portland
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@BRI_Associates
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2 employees on LinkedIn®

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Recent Growth Forge Reviews

Jonathan R.
JR
Jonathan R.Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Fantastic for new innovation!"
The risk management tool has been a fantastic way for me to keep an eye on critical risks for achieving our OKRs. I can’t understate how having a s...
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Verified UserSmall-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"Disciplined Innovation"
I believe Growth Forge is unique in its wealth of information and depth of practical experience that has been infused into its framework. It's a st...
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Verified UserMid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Great tool for new biz decision making"
Choosing what new businesses to pursue and how to go about pursuing them is no longer a simple decision. It takes analysis of many competing and ov...
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Growth Forge Media

Growth Forge Demo - Value Network Visualization
This tool helps define the participants, relationships, key activities and value exchanges in the value chain or network around the offering.
Growth Forge Demo - Model & Evaluate your Business Strategy Hypothesis
This is the Project Home page. It helps you to select from the suite of modeling and analysis based on the dimensions of the strategy you want to focus on and where the project is in the iterative process of development, from concept development to commercialization.
Growth Forge Demo - Simple P&L Ananlysis
This tool is to help assess whether the long term potential of the opportunity meets the requirements defined by the portfolio methodology and is worth pursuing.
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Growth Forge Pros and Cons

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Jonathan R.
JR
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Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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What do you like best about Growth Forge?

The risk management tool has been a fantastic way for me to keep an eye on critical risks for achieving our OKRs. I can’t understate how having a single location to track product development, assumptions, risk, and so much more has greatly accelerated our time to market. I can’t thank the team enough for this fantastic suite of tools! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Growth Forge?

The color scheme doesn't interact well with my dark mode extension, looking forward to native dark mode support! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Growth Forge solving and how is that benefiting you?

The ability to track new innovation across every stage of its lifecycle. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Information Technology and Services
UI
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What do you like best about Growth Forge?

I believe Growth Forge is unique in its wealth of information and depth of practical experience that has been infused into its framework. It's a step by step, practical guide for maximizing the potential of your venture. The portfolio management features are also quite helpful for the corporate incubation leader. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Growth Forge?

There's a learning curve. And a vocabulary/taxonomy to get used to. But the investment in the on-boarding will pay dividends in your innovation portfolio. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Growth Forge solving and how is that benefiting you?

Growth Forge facilites a disciplined, analytical framework for corporate innovation/incubation and portfolio management. It's a great tool for managing costs, project execution, and maximizing portfolio potential. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Semiconductors
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Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Growth Forge?

Choosing what new businesses to pursue and how to go about pursuing them is no longer a simple decision. It takes analysis of many competing and overlapping opportunities with a high degree of variability in the factors influencing the decision. Growth Forge is perfect for driving what-if analysis of these new business ideas. It's ability to do a range based analysis is critical and brings tons of insight into hidden assumptions, the real drivers of success, and the areas of highest risk in your business plan. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Growth Forge?

Like any significant software package, there's a learning curve here. Regardless, it's well worth the investment and the developers have a ton of real world experience they bring to the table. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Growth Forge solving and how is that benefiting you?

Provides a disciplined framework for the art and science of innovation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Thomas C.
TC
Managing Director
Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Growth Forge?

Software has an amazing set of business tools at the ready. Also the emphasis on probability ranges of success, identification of "unknowns" valuable in helping to focus on what needs to be learned before the investment in the project becomes too expensive to pivot to the right path. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Growth Forge?

There is a learning curve to the software. Requires working domain knowledge in new business innovation and milestone investments to optimize your success with the software Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Growth Forge solving and how is that benefiting you?

Identification on business and strategic unknowns with corresponding probability and significance of the unknowns. Very helpful in understanding what needs to be learned/done to either pivot, change strategic direction, etc. to ensure business plan is well vetted for success. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Growth Forge?

Founders have built a veyr robust capability to help evaluate business opportunities. There are always lots of ideas. This platform help evaluate and prioritize in a way that will help the percentage of success increase. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Growth Forge?

It could use more use in the marketplace to help really refine the experience and output. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Growth Forge solving and how is that benefiting you?

Provides a consistent way to evaluate opportunities presented to the business. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Shawn D.
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Chief Strategy Officer
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What do you like best about Growth Forge?

The included tools make analysis easy. I think the most helpful part is that it connects stages of innovation with key tasks to complete. It's more robust and practical than many other types of products I have seen before. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Growth Forge?

Occasionally there is a bug in the system, but that's infrequent and the developers are responsive. I think that the collaboration feature is good but could be improved. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Growth Forge solving and how is that benefiting you?

It is helping me work with the faculty on making innovation a task and not magic. I am being more productive because the time spent in Growth Forge prevents me from following rabbit trails. I'm devoting time to actual tasks to advance the efforts of my institution. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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