INNOVATIONTOOLS: D-F
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.
Decision Matrix
A simple tool which can be used to help in this process of choice.
Delphi Method
Making long-term forecasts and revealing how new technologies and other factors could trigger discontinuities in technological trajectories.
Deming Wheel (PDCA)
A tool for establishing a systematic approach to sustained improvement.
Design thinking
Design thinking (DT) is a popular and widely-used framework approach to creativity.
Discontinuous Innovation Audit
This tool focuses attention on some of the important areas of discontinuous innovation management.
Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain
A tool for combatting assumptions.
Empathic Design
A tool for exploring how people behave in the context in which the product under question is being used.
Entrepreneurs audit
The simple self-assessment tool focuses attention on some of the important areas of innovation management.
Entrepreneur’s storyboard
A tool to help develop ideas and bring others into the process through the sue of storytelling approaches, building your ‘innovation story’ up, step-by-step.
Ethnography
A collection of methods originally developed in the field of anthropology through which observations are made about how people actually behave in context.
FMEA
This is a tool developed in the field of quality management which systematically tries to imagine different ways in which a system might fail and then puts in place contingency plans for avoiding it or minimising the risks associated with it.
Fishbone Chart / Cause and effect diagram
This participatory exercise explores the links between the effects and the possible causes of an issue.
Five Forces Strategic Analysis
This is a simple map that represents the competitive strategic battlefield in terms of five forces that interact to shape the challenges for firms.
Force Field Analysis
Force Field Analysis (FFA) is a technique for formally listing and analysing the various forces acting in a given situation, or affecting a given problem.
Frugal Innovation
This is an approach to innovation which is based on the principle of simplification – finding solutions to a problem which solve the problem but without adding unnecessary costs or adding unwanted functions.
Functional Mapping
A tool for establishing what and who will need to be involved in order to create innovation.