Brainstorm and innovate new concepts
Tools that help you brainstorm and innovate new concepts.
13 tools
- Design Thinking — Structured route from real user problems to tested new concepts.
- Affinity Diagrams — Groups raw brainstorm output into the themes that actually matter.
- Business Model Canvas (BMC) — Sketches a new idea's whole model on one page fast.
- Lean Canvas Model — Surfaces the riskiest assumption in a new concept before building.
- Jobs to be Done Framework (JTBD) — Roots new concepts in the job customers actually need done.
- Drucker's Seven Sources of Innovation — Seven concrete places to hunt for ideas, not a blank page.
- Cross-Industry Innovation — Borrows a working mechanism from an unrelated industry.
- Idea Screening Matrix — Scores every raw idea so the shortlist survives on merit.
- Simplex Process — An eight-stage loop for turning a problem into an actioned idea.
- Minimum Viable Products (MVP) — Turns a concept into the smallest testable version fast.
- Rapid Prototyping Tools — Gets a rough version of the concept in front of users quickly.
- Iterative Design and Feedback Tools — Refines a raw concept through repeated rounds of real feedback.
- Blue Ocean Four Action Framework — Forces a genuinely new concept by rebuilding what you compete on.