Free innovation tools.
We transformed a lot of leading innovation management theory into hands-on, easy-to-use, actionable innovation tools. Feel free to browse or download our tools.
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Unit economics calculator
This business design tool will help you guesstimate whether your business model will be profitable and sustainable by analyzing your unit economics.
Revenue model flowchart B2C
An easy-to-use poster to find new B2C revenue models and decide which are right for you.
Vision card
The vision card will help you expand your concept by adding early business model details and enabling you to begin crafting your customer value proposition.
Social impact wheel
Review your innovation strategy and find out how your organization performs according to the different impact values – equality, community, empowerment, and environment.
Value proposition designer
Use this value proposition tool to articulate the actual benefits of your solution and zone in on how your concept will serve customers.
Business model validation plan
Set up experiments to validate the assumptions you’ve made in your new business model prototype.
Innovation A to Z
A complete overview of the innovation funnel, with tips & tricks, tools and related methodologies. Everything you need to launch new products or services, or to re-design and improve existing ones. From blank page to development.
Innovation taboo
Our buzzwords game that teaches teams to ditch the jargon and find simple ways to explain innovation terms.
Problem sizing canvas
Use this tool to assess the size of a customer problem and determine if solving it could produce value for your business.
Assumption learning card
Use this tool to collect and refine your learnings after testing your critical assumptions.
Virtual consultant
A complete overview of the innovation funnel, with tips & tricks, tools and related methodologies. Everything you need to launch new products or services, or to re-design and improve existing ones.
Business model kit
Invented by Board of Innovation, this tool has helped thousands of corporate inventors, students and entrepreneurs to design successful business models.
Future scan
150+ predictions and future trends to use in your brainstorms and ideation sessions.
Brainstorm cards
Our corporate ideation game, with 52 triggers to generate new business ideas.
Innovation posters
Spice up your office with these innovation posters – it’s time to remove some corporate dust.
Feedback grid
A tool designed to help you structure the information gathered from user testing. Identify details that you might forget with this easy canvas.
Revenue model flowchart B2B
An easy-to-use poster to find new B2B revenue models and decide which are right for you.
Concept disruptiveness test
Could your new business model disrupt the market, or is it too safe? Take this test to asses your concept quickly and objectively.
Ballpark figures
Quickly project the viability of your idea without having to build a full-blown business case.
Evaluation criteria
In order to determine which
idea(s) to focus on, you must align
as a team on the criteria in which
you will be evaluating against.
Empathy interview guide
The interview guide is a tool designed to guide you during your first interviews with the customer or end users to better understand the right problems to solve. It’s the starting point of your empathy journey. Highly recommended before jumping into ideation.
How Might We statement builder
The How Might We statement builder is a tool that allows you to explore potential innovation theses. It’s the perfect way to start with your solution development.
Brainstorm cards for emerging economies
Our ideation game, with 30 cards to generate new business ideas in emerging market economies.
Brain writing
The brain writing card helps you ideate collaboratively with your colleagues.
Analogy thinking
The analogy thinking tool helps you to identify and apply the best features from other solutions.
Pitch evaluation sheet
You’re sitting in the jury hot seat and need to give a business idea the “go” or “no go”. This tool will help you decide which pitch to give the green light.
Pitching checklist
If you want to sell a killer business idea, your pitch needs to pack a punch. This 5-part checklist is the best way to make sure your pitch hits home.
Experiment picker
This quiz will test how ready you are, and whether you’ve checked off everything Board of Innovation considers necessary before getting it out there. Remember: it’s better to fail a quiz than fail your customer.
Pitching canvas
Build the storyline of your pitch, covering all essential building blocks: problem, solution, business model, credibility, and call to action.
Solution validation script
A set of questions to ask key stakeholders to validate your solution.
Build it, break it, fix it
Collaboratively develop an idea, expand upon it, and then test its strength. Use it to grow your vision. Then tear it down and re-build.
Idea shopping cart
Ensure a sufficient variety of ideas whilst facilitating everyone’s individual decision making process.
Opposite thinking
This is tool asks you to familiarize with the opposite side of things, to stretch the horizon of possibilities.
Innovation battlefield
Prioritize your most important features or concepts and make decisions on how to take them forward.
Innovation landscape
Distinguish new concepts and projects between the different (often highly confused) innovation types.
Tech & trends matrix
A tool to generate hundreds of focussed ideas, with the inspiration of the latest trends.
Concept card
A 1-page template to move quickly from random “post-it” ideas to a clear concept overview.
Scoping canvas
The ultimate 1-page template to help your team align on the scope of your innovation project.
Assumption mapper
Do you have a business proposition in mind? Challenge and prioritize your assumptions with this assumption mapper.
Problem validation script
This tool helps you go smoothly through your first problem validation interviews.
Creativity blockers poster
A list of comments drawn from some of our innovation workshops demonstrating hints of cognitive biases at play.
Cognitive biases poster
Here are 16 cognitive biases to look out for that impact creativity and innovation process. They can originate from personal biases to group dynamics and politics and more.
Customer journey map
Possibly the most famous design thinking tool, a customer journey map allows you to reconsider the interaction with your products or services from the customer’s perspective.
Innovation blueprint
A structured overview of key elements of an innovation activity. Identify clear roles and allow your activities to be compared.
Innovation mission map
Summarise your key insights to shape a clear innovation mission statement.
Innovation pipeline poster
Shift gears between the different phases of the innovation pipeline effectively.
3 horizons model
A widely used tool in the strategic field, McKinsey’s 3 horizons model helps you discuss growth strategy in relation to the core business over the months and years ahead.
Innovation matrix
A complete overview of innovation programs: you define the benefits you expect from your innovation strategy, the innovation matrix will show you the most suitable program to activate.
