wherevisionmeetsexecution
For companies building something physical, branded and hard to categorize.
eleven23 helps ambitious companies define what they are building, shape how it should be experienced, and create the structure to bring it to life.
Most ambitious ideas don't fail for lack of vision. They fail in the space between vision and delivery, where strategy, brand, operations, budgets and build move in different directions.
eleven23 brings them back into one line of accountability. One person who can hold the strategy, shape the brand, build the program, and stand on the site when it's delivered.
One discipline,
four movements.
Define
Design
Structure
Deliver
Execution is the
room you walk into.
Vision, made real, across brand, retail, experience and the built environment.
IMAX VR
Translating a flagship entertainment brand into an entirely new category of physical experience, a 15,000 sq ft flagship, from concept to launch.
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Tesla Retail
Supporting a disruptive brand's move into physical space, translating design intent into consistent customer environments at the speed of a fast-growth rollout.
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Industrious Malibu
A premium, hospitality-informed workplace delivered with design integrity under real-world constraints, where the customer experience and the build had to stay aligned.
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W/In
Developing the brand world for a premium private padel court company, from naming and positioning to identity direction, campaign language, social system and future brand applications.
View case study →- Tesla
- IMAX
- Polestar
- Industrious
- WeWork
- REEF
- ICON
- Lexus
- Apple
The range is the advantage.
Brand, operations, experience and execution are usually treated as separate disciplines. Customers never experience them separately, and neither should the people building them.
A few ways the relationship takes shape.
Strategic advisory
A trusted outside perspective on brand, growth and execution.
02Brand & experience programs
From positioning and identity through to the built experience.
03Fractional program leadership
Embedded ownership of a complex, cross-functional initiative.
04End-to-end initiative leadership
One line of accountability from idea to launch and beyond.
Jim Gentili has spent his career in the part of the organization where the idea meets reality: translating ambitious concepts into brands, environments, programs and finished experiences.
Across automotive, technology, entertainment, hospitality, coworking, retail and the built environment, the through-line is the same: make the ambiguous coherent, scalable and real.
Notes from the space between strategy and execution.
Branding is not a logo. It's the operating model.
Why the brand promise lives or dies in operations, not the style guide.
Program management is a creative discipline.
Structure isn't the enemy of ideas. It's what lets them survive contact with reality.
What delivery teaches you about strategy.
On the site, a vague decision becomes an expensive one. Clarity is a budget line.
Let's close the distance
between vision and execution.
Bring us the challenge, especially the one that's hard to categorize.