THE COMPANY

Innovation Insight is a Florida corporation founded in 2002. The company serves the government, private, and not-for-profit sectors and specializes in technology and research consulting. Innovation Insight’s focus is on the Florida market, although it regularly supports projects nationwide regarding network analysis, social media strategy and measurement, and technology market research. Innovation Insight is one of the few full-time US providers of dedicated social network analysis consultation services. Innovation Insight is also one of the few companies in the Southeast that can provide the full range of outsourced qualitative to quantitative research services affordable to small organizations and companies.

Innovation Insight is committed toward staying at the leading edge of research technologies and providing results targeted to each clients’ needs.

THE FOUNDER

Innovation Insight was founded by Guy Hagen, who has worked since 1995 as a professional strategist and researcher in Florida’s technology and entrepreneurial communities. Guy Hagen is an experienced senior researcher for social network analysis, public relations, market research, and applied research. He has deep connections and expertise in technology industries and issues, and specializes in social media strategy, analysis and development, organizational and social network analysis, and qualitative+quantitative research design and execution. He has conducted dozens of professional focus groups, interviews, surveys, panels, facilitated meetings, and numerous research projects involving ethnographies, structured interviews, advanced statistics, and online programming/web development and database technologies. He has over 15,000 Twitter followers and is the author of the YouTube analytical site VidSquid.net, and Twitter analytical sites twInfluence.com and twitSeeker.com, which are frequented by over 50,000 users each month.

Mr. Hagen has generated nationally recognized network analysis, technology, and research publications, and has presented and published internationally for his activities in technology transfer and development. Mr. Hagen is regularly engaged as a speaker on the intersection of social media, strategy, and technology.

Mr. Hagen has a Masters degree in Applied Anthropology focusing on urban research methods and network analysis and has a background in computer science. He has been a member of the International Economic Development Council (IEDC), the Florida Economic Development Council (FEDC), the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), and has been a member of the International Network for Social Network Analysis (INSNA) since the mid 1990s. He is also a past board member of Financial Florida and the Tampa Bay chapter of the National Defense Industry Association.

OUR PARTNERS

Innovation Insight is supported by an established network of top-caliber technology, industry, academic, and entrepreneurial consultants. Our collaborations with such organizations as the University of South Florida Center for Economic Development Research, the University of Central Florida Institute for Economic Competitiveness, the University of Tampa Center for Knowledge Management, the Forrester Institute, Dalbar, Frost and Sullivan and others allow our services to be flexible and scalable - while offering the mix of reputation, specialization, and capacity needed for each project.

OUR LOGO

Our logo, the Eye of Horus, is a 3000-year-old symbol that represents ‘insight‘ and the ability to reveal hidden information.

CONTACT INFORMATION

Mail: 27810 Sky Lake Circle, Wesley Chapel FL 33544
Phone: 813.997.2111
Fax: 813.319.3488
Email: gh @ innovationinsight.com