Jump Associates

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Jump Associates

Type	Privately held company
Founded	1998
Headquarters	San Mateo, California Second office in New York, NY
Key people	Dev Patnaik, Founder and Managing Associate Udaya Patnaik, Founder and Principal Associate Neal Moore, Founder Alonzo Canada, Directing Associate Sarah Rottenberg, Directing Associate Lara Lee, Directing Associate
Industry	Design and Strategy consulting
Products	Design Strategy consulting services
Employees	About 50
Website	www.jumpassociates.com

Jump Associates (Jump) is a Design strategy consulting firm founded in 1998 by Dev Patnaik, Neal Moore, Robert Becker, and Udaya Patnaik, among others. Jump helps clients, including Hewlett-Packard, Target, Nike, and Procter & Gamble, create new ways to grow.

The company's founders helped define and pioneer what they termed "Design Strategy," focused on helping clients to bridge business strategy and product design.

Since 2000, Dev Patnaik has taught the class Needfinding in the Stanford Joint Program in Product Design[1]. The course teaches many of the design research methods that inform Jump's approach to design strategy. The company works with a variety of different people and types of companies. [2] [3].

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Jump's headquarters in San Mateo, JumpSpace, is designed to foster collaboration in a variety of different environments, from a sidewalk cafe to a blackbox theater. Several media outlets, including BusinessWeek[4] [5] and Southern California Public Radio[6], have recognized JumpSpace as a breakthrough achievement in workplace design.

The company currently has offices in both San Mateo and New York.