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Innovation Process & Pitch Deck
Use these essential tool to guide your innovation process, helping you structure your approach from idea generation to execution, including “pitching” to investors, sponsors, and other stakeholders. Connect the rest of the innovation tools in the following sections to supercharge your work!
Design Thinking Toolkit
The Design Thinking Toolkit provides practical tools and frameworks to help organizations innovate, solve complex problems, and drive growth. It guides users through a structured process of empathizing with customers, generating creative ideas, prioritizing solutions, and prototyping for rapid learning. With templates for brainstorming, customer insights, prioritization, and rapid prototyping, this toolkit is designed to foster collaboration, creativity, and continuous improvement in developing new products, services, and processes.
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Business Pitch Template
The Business Pitch Template in PowerPoint guides you through the key elements of building a robust innovation strategy, from defining problems and opportunities to outlining the business model, go-to-market approach, and financial projections. It also prompts critical thinking around competitive advantage, risk management, and measurable goals, making it ideal for aligning vision with actionable steps or pitching new initiatives to investors and stakeholders.
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Innovation Strategy & Context Setting
Use these tools to help define your innovation strategy, clarify objectives, set the stage for a successful innovation project. These resources help frame your overall opportunity and align your team and key stakeholders.
70-20-10 Innovation Rule
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Benchmarking
Benchmarking is the process of comparing an organization’s performance to the best in the industry or to a company in another industry with high standards. It typically looks at key metrics like product quality, production costs, and time to produce. This method helps organizations identify areas for improvement and set performance goals based on industry leaders. It’s useful for staying competitive and improving efficiency.
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Context Map Canvas
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Discovery Driven Planning
Discovery Driven Planning is a tool used for planning new business ventures, especially when the future is uncertain. Unlike traditional planning, which focuses on clear goals and projections, this method helps businesses deal with unknowns and assumptions. It’s useful for start-ups or internal corporate projects where there are many variables, allowing companies to test ideas and adjust as they learn.
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Disruptive Innovation
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S-Curve Mapping
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Outcome Driven Innovation
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Technology Life Cycle Model
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White Space Innovation
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Innovation Process Step 1: Empathize
Use these tools to help you deeply understand customer needs, behaviors, and motivations, providing a human-centered foundation for identifying meaningful innovation opportunities.
Customer Empathy Interviews
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Customer Empathy Map
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Customer Problem Statement
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Ethnographic Research
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Jobs to be Done
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Innovation Process Step 2: Ideate
Use these templates to generate creative ideas and explore new possibilities for products, services, and business models.
Brainstorming
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Crowdsourcing
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PAINstorming
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SCAMPER
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Six Thinking & Listening Hats
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Innovation Process Step 3: Prioritize
Use these templates to evaluate, prioritize, and select the most promising ideas based on strategic criteria.
Business Case
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Concept Screening
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Innovation Roadmap
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Innovation Horizons Model
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Innovation Matrix
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Innovation Portfolio Management
Innovation Portfolio Management is the process of prioritizing all potential products, services, business models, processes or other innovation opportunities using specific criteria. The tool provides a high-level view of potential investments, helping innovation managers prioritize based on factors like ROI, risk, and strategic alignment. This approach ensures that resources are used effectively and the right projects are executed short and longer-term. Use the tool to prioritize opportunities that will move into the next phase of the innovation process involving validation, testing, and refinement.
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Value Proposition Canvas
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Innovation Process Step 4: Experiment
Use these templates to test, validate, and refine ideas through iterative experimentation and learning.
Agile Innovation
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Build-Measure-Learn Feedback Loop
The Build-Measure-Learn Feedback Loop is a process that helps turn uncertain ideas into valuable insights for improving products and business strategy. It involves three steps: building a prototype or idea, measuring its success, and learning from the results to refine the approach. This tool is useful for reducing risk and driving progress by making data-driven decisions. To use it effectively, organizations must first identify the area to improve and gather relevant data.
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Business Model Canvas
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Concept Testing
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Crossing the Chasm
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Experiment Canvas
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Financial Modeling
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Minimum Viable Product
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Rapid Prototyping
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What They Say

Soren reveals strategies for engaging people in the type of experiential learning that challenges assumptions and leads to breakthroughs.

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Soren shows that leaders who look inward to challenge the status quo will be on track to truly change the game.

Soren helped our leadership team assess, design, and build an action plan for further embedding innovation into our culture.

Culture is the key to innovation, and Soren helps leaders assess, frame, and create a sustainable environment for both innovation and growth.

Soren’s book, Experiential Intelligence, is a major game-changer for the field of transforming organizations.

Soren reveals how to create a culture of empowerment and innovation that enables true sustainable growth and engagement.

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Soren knows what it takes to be successful in our rapid paced and constantly changing environment and redefines what all leaders and organizations need to build as competencies for the future.

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Soren’s concept of Experiential Intelligence is the new imperative for unlocking the peak potential of individuals, teams, and organizations.

Dr. Kaplan provides keen insights into how the experiences we have form our current mindsets and an approach for how to gain self-awareness into your unique assets to foster both personal and professional growth.

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