INNOVATIONTOOLS: J-L
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.
Jobs to be done
A powerful tool for finding innovation opportunities, sometimes known as 'Outcome driven innovation'
Johari window
A tool for exploring different dimensions of a problem. It was created by psychologists Joseph Luft and Harrington Ingham and they named their model "Johari" using a combination of their first names. It focuses on helping understand different perspectives from different stakeholders.
Kano Methods
This is a useful market research tool which helps clarify the ‘voice of the customer’.
Lateral Thinking
A tool for solving problems through an indirect and creative approach, using reasoning that is not immediately obvious and involving ideas that may not be obtainable by using only traditional step-by-step logic.
Lead User Methods
A tool for identifying Lead Users, and understanding their role in the generation of new products.
​Learning networks
A tool for understanding how to build and operate learning networks.
Levels of Abstraction
This is a simple but powerful tool for finding new insights and perspectives on a problem issue. It involves finding analogous situations and transferring ideas which work in that context back to the original problem.
List Reduction
A tool for reducing a large list of items to a manageable few.