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🧭 Situation

Ideas are missing or fizzling out

36 curated tools for this situation — sorted by evidence level.

Framework Practice-validated
Blue Ocean Four Actions (ERRC) Forces strategy as sacrifice: what do we eliminate, reduce, raise, create?
👥 3–12 ⏱ 3 hrs 📍 In person / Remote / Hybrid
Framework Practice-validated
Crazy 8s Forces eight solution sketches in eight minutes — quantity beats self-censorship.
👥 2–12 ⏱ 10–20 Min 📍 In person / Remote
Framework Practice-validated
Customer Journey Mapping Makes the end-to-end customer experience visible — including the breakpoints between departments.
👥 3–10 ⏱ 4 hrs 📍 In person / Remote / Hybrid
Framework Practice-validated
Design Sprint Validates a big product idea in five days — from problem to user test.
👥 4–7 ⏱ 5 days 📍 In person
Guide Practice-validated
Design Thinking Bootleg Provides the Stanford d.school method kit for every design thinking phase.
👥 2–12 ⏱ 2 hrs 📍 In person / Remote
Framework Practice-validated
Double Diamond Gives innovation work a clear rhythm of opening and converging — from problem to solution.
👥 3–12 ⏱ 1 day 📍 In person / Remote / Hybrid
Methode Practice-validated
How Might We Questions (d.school) Reshapes problem insights d.school-style into powerful innovation questions.
👥 2–12 ⏱ 20–45 Min 📍 In person / Remote
Canvas Practice-validated
How-Now-Wow Matrix Quickly sorts ideas by originality and feasibility — protecting the wow ideas.
👥 3–12 ⏱ 30–60 Min 📍 In person / Remote / Hybrid
Framework Practice-validated
Jobs to Be Done (JTBD) Aligns innovation with the progress customers want to make — not with product categories.
👥 2–8 ⏱ 3 hrs 📍 In person / Remote
Framework Practice-validated
SCAMPER Systematically evolves the existing via seven change operations.
👥 2–10 ⏱ 45–90 Min 📍 In person / Remote
Framework Practice-validated
St. Gallen Business Model Navigator Innovates business models systematically by recombining 55+ proven patterns.
👥 2–10 ⏱ 4 hrs 📍 In person / Remote
Canvas Practice-validated
Strategy Canvas Draws the value curves of the competition, showing where differentiation really happens.
👥 2–10 ⏱ 3 hrs 📍 In person / Remote
Framework Practice-validated
Wardley Mapping Makes the evolution of your playing field visible — from genesis to commodity.
👥 2–8 ⏱ 4 hrs 📍 In person / Remote
Guide Practitioner heuristic
20 Lean Innovation Tools Bundles 20 lean tools to test innovation assumptions fast and cheaply.
👥 2–8 ⏱ 2 hrs 📍 In person / Remote
Kartenset Practitioner heuristic
55+ Business Model Pattern Cards Brings the 55+ business model patterns into workshops as a card deck — to draw, combine, provoke.
👥 3–12 ⏱ 3 hrs 📍 In person
Canvas Practitioner heuristic
AI Opportunity Radar Identifies and prioritizes AI use cases across the company on one radar.
👥 3–12 ⏱ 3 hrs 📍 In person / Remote / Hybrid
Canvas Practitioner heuristic
Circular Canvas Designs circular business models: material flows, take-back, and reuse as value creation.
👥 2–10 ⏱ 4 hrs 📍 In person / Remote
Methode Practitioner heuristic
Collaborative Foresight for Teams Develops future images as a team and translates them into today's decisions and actions.
👥 4–15 ⏱ 6 hrs 📍 In person / Remote
Canvas Practitioner heuristic
Design Thinking Canvas Guides a design thinking project on one canvas from challenge to test.
👥 3–10 ⏱ 4 hrs 📍 In person / Remote
Framework Practitioner heuristic
Design Thinking Process Structures user-centered innovation in five modes from empathize to test.
👥 3–10 ⏱ 2 days 📍 In person / Hybrid
Guide Practitioner heuristic
Design Thinking Toolkit Guides beginner teams through their first design thinking project in five steps.
👥 2–10 ⏱ 4 hrs 📍 In person
Guide Practitioner heuristic
digistainableNOW! Toolkit Combines digital innovation methods with sustainability checks in an HPI toolkit.
👥 3–12 ⏱ 4 hrs 📍 In person / Remote
Guide Practitioner heuristic
DIY Toolkit Provides 30 field-tested tools for social innovation free of charge.
👥 2–12 ⏱ 2 hrs 📍 In person / Remote
Methode Practitioner heuristic
How Might We Statement Turns problem insight into opening how-might-we questions for ideation.
👥 2–10 ⏱ 20–45 Min 📍 In person / Remote
Canvas Practitioner heuristic
Idea Napkin Sketches a business idea napkin-sized: customer, problem, solution, benefit.
👥 1–6 ⏱ 15–30 Min 📍 In person / Remote / Async
Guide Practitioner heuristic
IDEO Design Kit Opens IDEO's method treasury for human-centered design — from interviews to prototyping.
👥 2–12 ⏱ 2 hrs 📍 In person / Remote
Canvas Practitioner heuristic
Innovate UK Innovation Canvas Structures an innovation project's challenges, opportunities, and next steps online.
👥 2–10 ⏱ 2 hrs 📍 Remote / In person
Framework Practitioner heuristic
Innovation Blueprint Spans the complete innovation process from idea to scaling in one frame.
👥 3–12 ⏱ 2 days 📍 In person / Hybrid
Canvas Practitioner heuristic
Innovation Canvas Connects product design and business model in one shared innovation picture.
👥 2–8 ⏱ 3 hrs 📍 In person / Remote / Hybrid
Assessment Practitioner heuristic
Innovation Readiness Assessment Checks whether the organization is ready for innovation work — before programs are launched.
👥 2–10 ⏱ 2 hrs 📍 In person / Remote
Canvas Practitioner heuristic
Innovation Strategy Canvas (ITONICS) Structures an innovation strategy with vision, focus fields, roadmap, and governance.
👥 3–10 ⏱ 4 hrs 📍 In person / Remote / Hybrid
Framework Practitioner heuristic
Platform Navigator Analyzes and develops platform business models along actors, transactions, and network effects.
👥 2–8 ⏱ 4 hrs 📍 In person / Remote
Canvas Practitioner heuristic
Problem Statement Canvas Defines the problem precisely before solutions are discussed — half the battle of any problem solving.
👥 2–8 ⏱ 45–90 Min 📍 In person / Remote
Canvas Practitioner heuristic
Trend & Technology Radar Visualizes trends and technologies by relevance and time horizon — as a living radar instead of a one-off study.
👥 2–12 ⏱ 3 hrs 📍 In person / Remote / Hybrid
Canvas Practitioner heuristic
Trend Mapping Canvas Identifies and evaluates relevant trends as a basis for strategic innovation decisions.
👥 2–10 ⏱ 3 hrs 📍 In person / Remote / Hybrid
Framework Practitioner heuristic
TRIZ Framework Solves technical contradictions systematically with 40 proven inventive principles.
👥 2–8 ⏱ 3 hrs 📍 In person / Remote
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