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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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Social-in-circular lifecycle diagram
The Social-in-circular Lifecycle Diagram lets you identify if your circular practices address social impact.
Patient behavior journey map
Capture the patient journey through a behavioral design perspective
Behavioral challenge statement builder
Use this tool to translate your understanding of the patient into a well-crafted behavioral challenge statement.
Team canvas
The Team Canvas is a strategic framework that helps team members kick off projects and align on a common vision.
Ecosystem mapping
By mapping ecosystems, you can uncover key stakeholders, and where value is created.
Customer barriers and boosters
This tool will help you identify what the barriers and boosters are for your customers to use your
solution.
Growth engines (AARRR)
This framework helps you map and identify the crucial actions and tactics to implement to make sure a user becomes a paying customer.
Venture capital readiness checklist
Use this checklist to assess your readiness for a venture capital investment.
Corporate-startup partnership mapper
Use this tool to map and clarify the responsibilities and goals of your
corporate-startup partnership.
Marketing planning
Use this tool as an overview for your marketing planning to ensure a successful launch of your new product or service.
Go-to-market roadmap
Use this go-to-market roadmap to capture and coordinate the timing and goals of the cross-functional activities related to launching a new product or service.
Business model canvas
The Business Model Canvas is a strategic management and lean startup template for developing new or documenting existing business models.
Market sizing
The “Market Sizing” tool lets you estimate the revenue potential of your offering.
Stakeholder mapping
The “Stakeholder Mapping tool” helps you to identify and map out the key influencers related to your challenge.
Theory of change
The Theory of Change explains your organization’s intended path to change by outlining causal linkages in an initiative.
Social impact partnerships flowchart
Use our Partnership Flowchart to see what partnership type is the most suitable in your case.
Social impact 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.
Social impact intentions mapper
What is the impact that you are trying to make and what is your approach?
Social impact explanatory cards
Use these cards to get familiar with the SDG’s and get an initial understanding of how your business challenge could contribute to them.
Social impact wheel
Review your innovation strategy and find out how your organization is impacting the 17 SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals by UN).
Social impact business model kit
What is this for? The business model kit is a tool designed to explore and imagine different business models to support your solution. This tool …
Social impact toolkit
Comprehensive toolkit with everything you need to innovate for social impact.
Pharmacy ecosystem map
What is this for? We mapped the retail pharmacy ecosystem in the US and identified opportunities new players are leveraging to challenge incumbents. Use this …
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.
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.
Business model validation plan
Set up experiments to validate the assumptions you’ve made in your new business model prototype.
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.
Assumption learning card
Use this tool to collect and refine your learnings after testing your critical assumptions.
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.
Innovation taboo
Our buzzwords game that teaches teams to ditch the jargon and find simple ways to explain innovation terms.
Revenue model flowchart B2C
An easy-to-use poster to find new B2C revenue models and decide which are right for you.
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.
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 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.
Patient behavior biases poster
This poster highlights 9 critical biases that influence decisions related to health. Understanding them will help increase the success of your solutions and interventions.
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.
