Aon Accelerate Labs

Turning healthcare disruption into client solutions.

Healthcare is being bought around the employer, not through them, all while they face dramatic cost increases.  Plan design changes, and direct-to-consumer channels are creating parallel paths that break long-standing expectations about how care get purchased.

Aon's Health Solutions sits in the middle of it all and needed a new way to advise the largest employers in the country on a path forward.

They asked Creature to build and run Accelerate: a lab program that brings together the companies reshaping the category to create solutions Aon can present to clients the following week.

Strategic Support
Rapid Prototyping
Sales enablement
DEFINING MOMENT

Often, Innovation sessions produce a good day, a wall full of sticky notes, and a deck nobody opens again.

That was the actual problem to solve.

Aon's consultants did not need more market education. They needed something to change the client conversation.

OUR APPROACH

We started by learning how the account executives work with clients. What worked? What couldn't they change on thier own?

Those insights shaped everything that followed — from the challenges we tackled to the companies we invited and the outputs we produce. Every lab is preceded by primary research, stakeholder interviews, and a synthesis of Aon's own point of view.

The cohort is the strategy.

Assemble the wrong six companies and you have a vendor showcase. Assemble the right ones and the cohort itself makes an argument.

Creature helps curate each lab so the participants add up to a whole category rather than a sample of it: diagnostics, condition-specific virtual care, financial access, prescription and payment plumbing, engagement and navigation. Individually, each one is a point solution competing for a line item. Together, they’re a working model of what an employer health benefit would look like if someone rebuilt it from scratch.

The differing perspective illuminate the gaps, and those gaps are where the novel solutions are hiding.

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Keeping the hard work fun.

Each Labs session is unique by design.  Based on Aon’s strategic goals and the insights gleaned from interviews with participants, the session itself is a blend of preparation and improvisation.

We never know what the outcome of a lab will be, but we carefully craft the personas we’ll be designing for, develop the right ideation prompts and templates, then add a little fun and levity. This creates an environment where an honest exchange of new ideas can flourish.

Built for the following Tuesday.

Every lab produces artifacts made to be used: positioning language, client-ready POVs, designs, and prototypes plus a clear connection between which solution answers which client problem.

The best moment in a lab is never the whiteboard. It's an account executive two weeks later, sending a client with a note with a solution to their problems.

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“Creature has helped us turn Accelerate into a powerful way to tackle complex healthcare challenges and create practical solutions for our team and our clients.”

Meredith Wharton, Vice President, Health Innovation

Aon Health Solutions

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