About us

Consultancy

Seskimo provides innovation and consultancy services ranging from design and design management to systems and strategy, working with a variety of partners as appropriate. Contact us if you have any complex problems that require detailed analysis or practical inventiveness.

Courtenay Inchbald

Seskimo is run by Courtenay Inchbald who studied Philosophy at the University of Durham before obtaining a first class degree in Industrial Design from Central St Martin's and an MBA from Cranfield. He worked as an industrial designer with Isis before taking his MBA and focussing on commercial strategy, mainly in the media, with Hydra Associates (the  media division of the seminal qualitative research consultancy SRU), British Telecom and Seskimo.

Clients

We have worked for companies including: British Satellite Broadcasting (non-electronic dish directing device), Nokia (television concepts), Creda (heating concepts), Multi-Sharp (Wetstone chisel sharpener, still in production after 20 years), John Cullen Lighting (marketing management which doubled sales in two years - strapline still in use after 20 years), EMI (corporate strategy to deal with the threat of digital technology), The Arts Council of England ("Exploiting the Media"), The European Commisison ("Protecting Human Digity on the Internet"), Sky (e-commerce portal strategy), Kingfisher (e-commerce strategy for EUK), British Telecom (e-commerce strategy), and hedge fund manager CQS (rebranding design management).