Innovation Management
Strategy tools in the Innovation Management category.
64 tools
- AI Maturity Model — Place your organisation on a scale from ad hoc AI experiments to AI embedded in core decisions.
- Affinity Diagrams — Group loose ideas or notes by natural theme, one card at a time, until the real categories emerge.
- BEANE Test for Product Adoption — Score a new product on five adoption drivers, Benefit, Ease, Availability, Need, Excitement, before you spend on launching it.
- Blockchain Business Model Canvas — The standard Business Model Canvas re-read for blockchain: where does decentralisation actually create value.
- Business Ecosystem Modeling Tool — Map every player around the business to see where a partnership could work or a disruption might come from.
- Business Model Canvas (BMC) — The whole business model on one page: nine blocks from customer segments to cost structure.
- Circular Business Model Canvas — Give adoption factors and take-back their own blocks on the canvas, not just a question bolted onto the existing ones.
- Circularity Gap Reporting Tool — Measure the share of your material flow that is genuinely circular, then target the gap.
- Co-opetition — Cooperate with a rival on what grows the market, compete hard for your share of it.
- Core Competence Analysis — Find the small number of capabilities that genuinely set you apart, not everything you happen to do well.
- Cross-Industry Innovation — Solve your problem by finding how an unrelated industry cracked the same underlying mechanism, then adapt it.
- Customer-Driven Innovation — Build new products from what customers actually struggle with, not from internal assumptions.
- Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs) Strategy — Replace management hierarchy with on-chain rules and member voting, so decisions don't need central approval.
- Design Thinking — Solve problems by starting from real user behaviour: empathise, define, ideate, prototype, test.
- Diffusion of Innovations Curve — See which adoption wave you're selling into, innovators through laggards, so your tactics match the stage.
- Disruptive Technologies — Spot the cheap, simple offering incumbents ignore, then watch it improve until it takes the market.
- Drucker's Seven Sources of Innovation — Seven specific places to look for innovation opportunities, so the search isn't a random brainstorm.
- Dynamic Capabilities Assessment — Audit how well you sense change, seize opportunity and reconfigure, the abilities behind a lasting edge.
- Economies of Agglomeration — Firms clustered in the same trade share suppliers, labour and know-how, cutting costs for all of them.
- Ecosystem Strategy Framework — Map every partner and complementor your offer depends on, and sequence strategy around their timing.
- Eight Simple Steps for New Product Development — A stage-gate route from idea to launch: screen it, test the concept, set the marketing strategy, trial it, launch it, then review what happened.
- ExO (Exponential Organization) Attributes — Ten traits, five external (SCALE), five internal (IDEAS), that let a small team punch above its size without the assets.
- Generative AI in Business Strategy — Use generative AI to draft, stress-test and speed up strategic analysis, judgement stays human.
- Growth Hacking Frameworks — Run rapid, metric-led experiments against the AARRR funnel to find the stage capping growth.
- Hook Model — Build a trigger-action-reward-investment loop into a product so use becomes a habit, not a marketing push.
- Idea Screening Matrix — Score every idea against the same weighted criteria so the shortlist survives on evidence, not volume.
- Innovation Circle — A four-stage loop, ideate, validate, incubate, scale, for taking ideas from raw notion to running in the business.
- Innovation Management Platforms — Software that gives idea intake, evaluation and tracking one home, instead of scattered emails and spreadsheets.
- Innovation Prioritisation — Rank competing ideas by impact against effort, so resources go to the few worth funding.
- Innovation Pyramid — Three tiers of innovation, incremental at the base, breakthrough at the top, to see if your pipeline is too safe or too thin.
- Innovation Radar — Twelve dimensions of innovation around four anchors, what, who, how, where, to show which levers you're actually pulling.
- Innovation vs. Reaction — The difference between shaping change before it hits and scrambling once it already has, and choosing which a situation calls for.
- Iterative Design and Feedback Tools — Build a rough version, test with real users, learn, refine, repeat, trading one big bet for a series of small ones.
- Lean Canvas Model — A one-page, nine-box map of your business model that surfaces the riskiest assumptions before you build anything.
- Lean Startup Methodology — Test the riskiest assumption with a minimum viable product, measure real behaviour, and let the data decide the next move.
- Legal Lean Canvas Model — A law-firm adaptation of the Lean Canvas: nine boxes reframed around client pain points and billable value.
- Life Cycle Analysis — Trace a product's environmental impact from raw material to disposal to find where the real damage happens.
- Market Gap Analysis — Compare unmet customer needs against current offerings to find where demand outstrips supply.
- McKinsey's Seven Degrees of Freedom for Growth — Frame growth options as rings radiating from your core, from selling more to existing customers through to entirely new competitive arenas.
- McKinsey's Three Horizons of Growth — Split growth into defending the core, building what's emerging, and seeding options for what's next.
- Minimum Viable Products (MVP) — Build the smallest testable version of an idea to learn what's true before committing real budget.
- New Product Development Model — Move an idea from new-product strategy to commercialisation through fixed stages, killing weak ideas early rather than late.
- New Service Development Model — Take a new service from objectives to launch through fifteen staged steps and a live pilot, since services can't be inspected before they sell.
- Open Market Innovation — Treat innovation like a two-way market - license in what you're missing, license out or sell what you're not using, instead of hoarding it all
- Osterwalder’s Business Model Environment — Map market, industry, trend and macroeconomic forces around your business model before you commit to it.
- Platform Business Model Canvas — A Business Model Canvas adapted for platforms - map value, activities and revenue for every side of the network at once.
- Platform Canvas — Map a multi-sided platform on a twelve-block grid - consumer and producer sides mirrored around the core interaction, with cost, monetisation and
- Platform Ecosystem Strategy — Design and cultivate the full cast around your platform so network effects compound rather than stay accidental.
- Platformization Strategy — Move from selling directly to opening your assets so others can build, trade or transact on top of them.
- Positive Deviance Framework — Finds the people already outperforming peers under the same constraints, and spreads what they actually do.
- Product Diffusion Curve — Track adoption in five waves, from Innovators to Laggards, to know who you're actually selling to.
- Product Opportunity Evaluation Matrix - Poem Matrix — Score each product idea A to F against five forces - customer, product, timing, competition, finance - and compare them side by side instead of
- Rapid Prototyping Tools — Build a rough, testable version of an idea fast to get real feedback before committing money to it.
- SOAR Analysis — A positive-focused alternative to SWOT: Strengths, Opportunities, Aspirations, Results.
- Simplex Process — An eight-stage loop from finding the real problem to action, built to run again once implementation surfaces the next one.
- Smarter Startup — Sequence the big startup decisions: market and value proposition first, resourcing and hiring after, not before.
- Strategic Horizons — Split growth investment across today's core, tomorrow's emerging bets, and options for what's not yet visible.
- Strategic Innovation Canvas — Map market, customer needs, competitors and capability on one page to spot where the gaps are.
- Superhero Strategy — A workshop exercise: describe your strategy through a superhero's power, weakness and villain to surface what people won't say directly.
- Technology Adoption Life Cycle — Map how a market adopts something new over time, from innovators to the laggards who hold out.
- Technology Life Cycle — Track a technology through introduction, growth, maturity and decline to time investment and replacement.
- Technology Roadmap — Lay technology initiatives on a timeline tied to business priority, not whoever shouts loudest.
- Three Horizons of Growth — Manage growth across three time horizons at once: today's core, emerging bets, and future options.
- VRIO Analysis — Ask four questions of a resource in sequence: valuable, rare, hard to copy, organised to use. Where it fails names your real edge.