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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Strategy
Three horizons of innovation
One of the most popular frameworks ever invented in the strategic field, the three horizons of innovation help you categorize new business ideas according to their disruptiveness.
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 mission map
Summarise your key insights to shape a clear innovation mission statement.
Innovation posters
Spice up your office with these innovation posters - it's time to remove some corporate dust.
Innovation pipeline poster
Effectively shifting gears between the different phases of the innovation pipeline.
Innovation blueprint
A structured overview of key elements of an innovation activity. Identify clear roles and allow your activities to be compared.
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.
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.
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.
Exploration
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.
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.
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.
Future scan
150+ predictions and future trends to use in your brainstorms and ideation sessions.
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.
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.
Scoping canvas
The ultimate 1-page template to help your team align on the scope of your innovation project.
Creativity blockers poster
A list of comments drawn from some of our innovation workshops demonstrating hints of cognitive biases at play.
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.
Ideation
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.
Analogy thinking
The analogy thinking tool helps you to identify and apply the best features from other solutions.
Innovation battlefield
Prioritize your most important features or concepts and make decisions on how to take them forward.
Brainstorm cards for emerging economies
Our ideation game, with 30 cards to generate new business ideas in emerging market economies.
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.
Opposite thinking
This is tool asks you to familiarize with the opposite side of things, to stretch the horizon of possibilities.
Innovation landscape
Categorize ideas in regard to their viability and technical feasibility in the context of your organization.
Brainstorm cards
Our corporate ideation game, with 52 triggers to generate new business ideas.
Idea shopping cart
Ensure a sufficient variety of ideas whilst facilitating everyone’s individual decision making process.
Concept card
A 1-page template to move quickly from random "post-it" ideas to a clear concept overview.
Tech & trends matrix
A tool to generate hundreds of focussed ideas, with the inspiration of the latest trends.
Go-to-market
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.
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.
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.
Revenue model flowchart
An easy-to-use poster to find new B2B revenue models and decide which are right for you.
Solution validation script
A set of questions to ask key stakeholders to validate your solution.
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.
Business model kit
Invented by Board of Innovation, this tool has helped thousands of corporate inventors, students and entrepreneurs to design successful business models.
Pitching canvas
Build the storyline of your pitch, covering all essential building blocks: problem, solution, business model, credibility, and call to action.
Ballpark figures
Quickly project the viability of your idea without having to build a full-blown business case.
