Free innovation tools.

Build the storyline of your pitch, covering all essential building blocks: problem, solution, business model, credibility, and call to action.

Summarise your key insights to shape a clear innovation mission statement.

Discovering which strategic goals really matter for your organization.

Challenge and prioritize your assumptions.

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.

A set of questions to ask key stakeholders to validate your solution.

Spice up your office with these innovation posters – it’s time to remove some corporate dust.

Prioritize and select your most innovative ideas!

Do you have a concept idea, but you have to test its validity? Run controlled experiments to validate your assumptions – this 1-page template will help you clarify your experiment.

150+ predictions and future trends to use in your brainstorms and ideation sessions.

A tool to generate hundreds of focussed ideas, with the inspiration of the latest trends.

A 1-page template to move quickly from random “post-it” ideas to a clear concept overview.

The ultimate 1-page template to help your team align on the scope of your innovation project.

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.

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.

Document stories and observations uncovered during empathy sessions.

Prioritize your most important features or concepts and make decisions on how to take them forward.

Effectively shifting gears between the different phases of the innovation pipeline.

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.

This is tool asks you to familiarize with the opposite side of things, to stretch the horizon of possibilities.

A structured overview of key elements of an innovation activity. Identify clear roles and allow your activities to be compared.

A 1-page tool to share insights crafted from fragment cards.

A list of comments drawn from some of our innovation workshops demonstrating hints of cognitive biases at play.

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.

Quickly project the viability of your idea without having to build a full-blown business case.

Identify which insights should be taken forward.

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.

Categorize ideas in regard to their viability and technical feasibility in the context of your organization.

A simple empathy tool to deep dive into the mind of your customer.

An easy-to-use poster to find new B2B revenue models and decide which are right for you.

This tool helps you go smoothly through your first problem validation interviews.

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.

Ensure a sufficient variety of ideas whilst facilitating everyone’s individual decision making process.

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.

Invented by Board of Innovation, this tool has helped thousands of corporate inventors, students and entrepreneurs to design successful business models.

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.

Our corporate ideation game, with 52 triggers to generate new business ideas.