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Innovation Tools
As someone working or studying in the field of innovation, you probably already know that there exists a wealth of tools and techniques to help you find your way through the innovation maze.
The 4Ps Innovation Compass
A tool for exploring innovation space.
5 Whys
A tool for stripping away an apparent problem to get through to the root problem.
6 Is - Six mindsets for innovation
A framework for developing individual and organizational capability for innovation
Absorptive Capacity Audit
A tool for exploring where strengths and weaknesses in absorptive capacity lie.
Abstract-driven Search
A tool for reframing a problem.
Accelerating Diffusion
This tool is designed to help understand the ways in which innovations diffuse across a population – and how to use this knowledge to accelerate the process.
ADL Matrix
ADL Matrix groups technological knowledge into four key groups – base, key, emerging and pacing.
Agile innovation and lean start-up
Various tools connected to the ‘lean’ approach to innovation.
Analogies
A tool to help in creative problem solving.
Attribute Listing
This is a powerful technique for creating new concepts for products, services or processes.
Benchmarking
Benchmarking is the general name given to a range of techniques which involve comparisons between two examples of the same process so as to provide opportunities for learning.
Blue Ocean Strategy
A technique for exploring innovation space.
Boston Matrix
A tool to help analyse potential routes forward and discuss strategic options.
Brainstorming – Mind Mapping
A tool for the rapid pooling of all and any ideas that a group of people can come up with before any discussion or judgement takes place.
Bubble Charts
A tool for exploring innovation strategy.
Business Case Tool
Whether it is pitching a new idea for a start-up business or making a proposal for funding within a larger organization the business case is a key component of any innovation project.
Business Excellence Model
A useful framework to guide and monitor organisation-wide systems for continuous improvement.
Business Model Canvas
A tool for creating adaptable business plans.
Business Model Navigator
Tool developed by a team at the University of St. Gallen which provides a framework for business model innovation based around choosing between and adapting 55 archetypes.
Change Management
A tool for categorising various types of concerns about change management, and how to remedy them.
Checklists
A checklist is simply a list of factors which are considered important in making a decision in a specific case. These criteria include technical and commercial details, legal and financial factors, company targets and company strategy.
Checksheets
A Checksheet is a tool for recording and organising data. In a continuous improvement programme it is used to find problem issues by tracking their occurrence as a first step towards solving them.
Competency Mapping
A tool for mapping the knowledge base of an organisation.
Competitiveness Profiling
A powerful tool for picking up signals for innovation involves creating a simple profile of how your products and processes match up to what the market wants and what your best competitors can offer. The step-by-step process is well suited to discussion in groups and provides a powerful way of building a shared awareness of the strategic challenges facing the firm.
Conjoint Analysis
A well established, powerful marketing research technique for gaining information for new product development, market share forecasting, market segmentation and pricing decisions.
Continuous improvement
A suite of tools which are widely used to help enable a process of continuous incremental innovation - sometimes called 'kaizen'. These are particularly associated with quality improvement and form as essential part of the lean thinking approach
Customer journey mapping
An approach to help explore what customers/users value and look for in your product or service offering. Can help in value proposition design