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Canvases, templates, worksheets & more to give your idea a shape, map your customer, better insights on your value proposition and build a value and purpose-driven business.

Strategyzer

A global leader in enterprise growth & innovation services.
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Checkout Strategyzer for more resources, training, webinars, workshops and blogs on trends in innovation
 

🚀 Business Model Canvas

// The Business Model Canvas is strategic management and entrepreneurial tool that allows you to describe, design, challenge, invent and pivot your business model.
 
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🔨 Business Model Supporting Tools

Business Model Canvas instructing manual
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Business Model Design Space Card Deck
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7 Questions to Assess Your Business Model Design
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Designing Crystal Clear Business Model Canvases
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Testing Your Business Model: A Reference Guide
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🔩 Value Proposition Canvas

// The Value Proposition Canvas makes explicit how you are creating value for your customers. It helps you to design products and services your customers want.
 
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✏️ Value Proposition Supporting Tools

 
Value Proposition Canvas Instruction Manual
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10 Characteristics of Great Value Propositions Checklist
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A Day in the Life Worksheet
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Ad-lib Value Proposition Template
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Customer Gains Trigger Questions
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Customer Jobs Trigger Questions
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Customer Pains Trigger Questions
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Gain Creators Trigger Questions
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Identify High-Value Jobs
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Pain Relievers Trigger Questions
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Sell Your Colleagues on Value Proposition Design
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Six Ways to Innovate from the Customer Profile
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Spark Ideas with Design Constraints
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Customer Profile
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Value Map
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💉 Testing and other tools

 
Learning card
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Test card
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Progress board
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Culture map
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Mission model canvas
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Board of Innovation

Global strategy and business design firm helping Fortune 500s build growth strategies and new businesses relentlessly focused on impact.
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Check out the Board of Innovation for industry reports, strategy, business design, case studies and a lot more.

👨🏻‍🦯 Problem Discovery

Problem Sizing Canvas
Step by step Guide:
Problem sizing canvas - Board of Innovation
Use this tool to assess the size of a customer problem and determine if solving it could produce value for your business.
Problem sizing canvas - Board of Innovation
https://www.boardofinnovation.com/tools/problem-sizing-canvas/
Problem sizing canvas - Board of Innovation
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Feedback Grid
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Feedback grid - Board of Innovation
A tool designed to help you structure the information gathered from user testing. Identify details that you might forget with this easy canvas.
Feedback grid - Board of Innovation
https://www.boardofinnovation.com/tools/feedback-grid/
Feedback grid - Board of Innovation
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Evaluation Criteria
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Evaluation criteria - Board of Innovation
In order to determine which idea(s) to focus on, you must align as a team on the criteria in which you will be evaluating against.
Evaluation criteria - Board of Innovation
https://www.boardofinnovation.com/tools/evaluation-criteria/
Evaluation criteria - Board of Innovation
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Empathy interview guide
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Empathy interview guide - Board of Innovation
The empathy-interview guide is a tool designed to guide you during your first interviews with the customer or end users to better understand the right problems to solve.
Empathy interview guide - Board of Innovation
https://www.boardofinnovation.com/tools/interview-guide/
Empathy interview guide - Board of Innovation
Persona
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Persona - Board of Innovation
Present your personas and decide on the persona you want to focus on as a starting point. (15 min) Tip: You can focus on multiple personas, but this means that you will have to complete all exercises for each persona. It's often better to start with one, build and test a solution, and then start focusing on expanding your market.
Persona - Board of Innovation
https://www.boardofinnovation.com/tools/persona/
Persona - Board of Innovation
Insights selector
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Insights selector - Board of Innovation
Identify which insights should be taken forward.
Insights selector - Board of Innovation
https://www.boardofinnovation.com/tools/insights-selector/
Insights selector - Board of Innovation
Problem validation script
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Problem validation script - Board of Innovation
This tool helps you go smoothly through your first problem validation interviews.
Problem validation script - Board of Innovation
https://www.boardofinnovation.com/tools/problem-validation-script/
Problem validation script - Board of Innovation
Fragment cards
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Guide:
Fragment cards - Board of Innovation
Download this PDF and print it on an A3. You can also draw it out on a sheet of paper if you can't print. Most empathy sessions are conducted in pairs. If this is the case, meet with the partner you went interviewing with. Grab some post-it notes and sharpies.
Fragment cards - Board of Innovation
https://www.boardofinnovation.com/tools/fragment-cards/
Fragment cards - Board of Innovation
Linear unpacking
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Linear unpacking - Board of Innovation
A 1-page tool to share insights crafted from fragment cards.
Linear unpacking - Board of Innovation
https://www.boardofinnovation.com/tools/linear-unpacking/
Linear unpacking - Board of Innovation
Customer journey map
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Guide:
Customer journey map - Board of Innovation
Download this PDF and print it on an A2. You can also draw it out on a sheet of paper if you can't print. Agree on the persona around whom you are creating a customer journey map (10 min). Complete box 1 based on your current understanding of how the customer solves their problem (10 min).
Customer journey map - Board of Innovation
https://www.boardofinnovation.com/tools/customer-journey-map/
Customer journey map - Board of Innovation
Customer empathy map
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Customer empathy map - Board of Innovation
A simple empathy tool to deep dive into the mind of your customer.
Customer empathy map - Board of Innovation
https://www.boardofinnovation.com/tools/customer-empathy-map/
Customer empathy map - Board of Innovation
 

💡 Ideation

Social Impact Wheel
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Social Impact Wheel - Board of Innovation
All the tools you need.
Social Impact Wheel - Board of Innovation
https://www.boardofinnovation.com/tools/the-social-impact-wheel/
Social Impact Wheel - Board of Innovation
Innovation A to Z
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Innovation A to Z - Board of Innovation
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.
Innovation A to Z - Board of Innovation
https://www.boardofinnovation.com/tools/innovation-a-to-z/
Innovation A to Z - Board of Innovation
Future scan
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Future scan - Board of Innovation
150+ predictions and future trends to use in your brainstorms and ideation sessions.
Future scan - Board of Innovation
https://www.boardofinnovation.com/tools/future-scan/
Future scan - Board of Innovation
Concept disruptiveness test
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Concept disruptiveness test - Board of Innovation
Could your new business model disrupt the market, or is it too safe? Take this test to asses your concept quickly and objectively.
Concept disruptiveness test - Board of Innovation
https://www.boardofinnovation.com/tools/concept-disruptiveness-test/
Concept disruptiveness test - Board of Innovation
Idea sketch
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Idea sketch - Board of Innovation
Idea sketches are a great way to begin articulating your ideas on paper.
Idea sketch - Board of Innovation
https://www.boardofinnovation.com/tools/idea-sketch/
Idea sketch - Board of Innovation
How Might We statement builder
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How Might We statement builder - Board of Innovation
The How Might We statement builder is a tool that allows you to explore potential innovation theses.
How Might We statement builder - Board of Innovation
https://www.boardofinnovation.com/tools/how-might-we-statement-builder/
How Might We statement builder - Board of Innovation
Brainwriting
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Brain writing - Board of Innovation
The brain writing card helps you ideate collaboratively with your colleagues. This tool is ideal to use in the solution development phase.
Brain writing - Board of Innovation
https://www.boardofinnovation.com/tools/brain-writing/
Brain writing - Board of Innovation
Analogy thinking
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Analogy thinking - Board of Innovation
Individually look for 2 inspiring examples (1 within your industry and 1 outside your industry) (15 min). Present the examples to each other. Don't take more than 1 min per example (10 min). Decide on the 3 most inspiring examples as a group and take 1 analogy thinking template per example (5 min).
Analogy thinking - Board of Innovation
https://www.boardofinnovation.com/tools/analogy-thinking/
Analogy thinking - Board of Innovation
10x10s
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10x10s - Board of Innovation
10x10s is an easy way to begin stretching your thinking and generating new ideas, individuals work against the clock to generate as many ideas as possible within a given amount of time.
10x10s - Board of Innovation
https://www.boardofinnovation.com/tools/10x10s/
10x10s - Board of Innovation
Build it, break it, fix it
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Guide:
Build it, break it, fix it - Board of Innovation
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.
Build it, break it, fix it - Board of Innovation
https://www.boardofinnovation.com/tools/build-it-break-it-fix-it/
Build it, break it, fix it - Board of Innovation
Idea shopping cart
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Guide:
Idea shopping cart - Board of Innovation
Download this PDF and print it on an A3 sheet of paper. You can also draw the diagram on a sheet of paper if you can't print. Tell everyone to walk around the room (all posters with ideas should be hanging on the walls), read through the ideas and indicate the ones they like with dot-votes.
Idea shopping cart - Board of Innovation
https://www.boardofinnovation.com/tools/idea-shopping-cart/
Idea shopping cart - Board of Innovation
How-now-wow matrix
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How-now-wow matrix - Board of Innovation
Prioritize and select your most innovative ideas!
How-now-wow matrix - Board of Innovation
https://www.boardofinnovation.com/tools/how-now-wow-matrix/
How-now-wow matrix - Board of Innovation
Opposite thinking
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Opposite thinking - Board of Innovation
This is tool asks you to familiarize with the opposite side of things, to stretch the horizon of possibilities.
Opposite thinking - Board of Innovation
https://www.boardofinnovation.com/tools/opposite-thinking/
Opposite thinking - Board of Innovation
Innovation battlefield
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Innovation battlefield - Board of Innovation
Prioritize your most important features or concepts and make decisions on how to take them forward.
Innovation battlefield - Board of Innovation
https://www.boardofinnovation.com/tools/innovation-battlefield/
Innovation battlefield - Board of Innovation
Tech & trends matrix
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Guide:
Tech & trends matrix - Board of Innovation
Download this PDF and print it on an A2. You can also draw it out on a sheet of paper if you can't print. Frame your challenge. Pro-tip: "How might we...": these three little words set the team in a direction that is solution-oriented (how), optimistic (might), collaborative (we).
Tech & trends matrix - Board of Innovation
https://www.boardofinnovation.com/tools/tech-trends-matrix/
Tech & trends matrix - Board of Innovation
Concept card
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Concept card - Board of Innovation
A 1-page template to move quickly from random "post-it" ideas to a clear concept overview.
Concept card - Board of Innovation
https://www.boardofinnovation.com/tools/concept-card/
Concept card - Board of Innovation
 

☑️ Validation

Experiment Card
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www.boardofinnovation.com
https://www.boardofinnovation.com/tools/experiment-card/
Assumption Mapper
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Assumption mapper - Board of Innovation
Challenge and prioritize your assumptions.
Assumption mapper - Board of Innovation
https://www.boardofinnovation.com/tools/assumption-mapper/
Assumption mapper - Board of Innovation
Solution validation script
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Guide:
Solution validation script - Board of Innovation
Test the first version on a colleague or friend. Schedule business model interviews with the key stakeholders you identified using the business model kit Execute interviews using the following structure:
Solution validation script - Board of Innovation
https://www.boardofinnovation.com/tools/solution-validation-script/
Solution validation script - Board of Innovation
Assumption learning card
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Assumption learning card - Board of Innovation
This tool will help you collect and refine your learnings following an experiment on critical assumptions, user tests, or solution validations.
Assumption learning card - Board of Innovation
https://www.boardofinnovation.com/tools/assumption-learning-card/
Assumption learning card - Board of Innovation
Business model validation plan
 

💰Business Model

Vision card
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Vision card - Board of Innovation
The vision card will help you expand your concept by adding early business model details and enabling you to begin crafting your customer value proposition.
Vision card - Board of Innovation
https://www.boardofinnovation.com/tools/vision-card/
Vision card - Board of Innovation
Ballpark figures
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Ballpark figures - Board of Innovation
Quickly project the viability of your idea without having to build a full-blown business case.
Ballpark figures - Board of Innovation
https://www.boardofinnovation.com/tools/ballpark-figures/
Ballpark figures - Board of Innovation
Revenue model flowchart B2B
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Revenue model flowchart B2B - Board of Innovation
An easy-to-use poster to find new B2B revenue models and decide which are right for you.
Revenue model flowchart B2B - Board of Innovation
https://www.boardofinnovation.com/tools/revenue-model-flowchart-b2b/
Revenue model flowchart B2B - Board of Innovation
Business model kit
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Business model kit - Board of Innovation
Invented by Board of Innovation, this tool has helped thousands of corporate inventors, students and entrepreneurs to design successful business models.
Business model kit - Board of Innovation
https://www.boardofinnovation.com/tools/business-model-kit/
Business model kit - Board of Innovation
Revenue model flowchart B2C
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Revenue model flowchart B2C - Board of Innovation
Discover new ways for your business to make money. This flowchart helps you easily pick the right revenue models for your product or service idea.
Revenue model flowchart B2C - Board of Innovation
https://www.boardofinnovation.com/tools/revenue-model-flowchart-b2c/
Revenue model flowchart B2C - Board of Innovation
Unit Economics calculator
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Unit economics calculator - Board of Innovation
This business design tool will help you guesstimate whether your business model will be profitable and sustainable by analyzing your unit economics.
Unit economics calculator - Board of Innovation
https://www.boardofinnovation.com/tools/unit-economics-calculator/
Unit economics calculator - Board of Innovation
Social Impact Intentions Mapper
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Social Impact Intentions Mapper - Board of Innovation
All the tools you need.
Social Impact Intentions Mapper - Board of Innovation
https://www.boardofinnovation.com/tools/social-impact-intentions-mapper/
Social Impact Intentions Mapper - Board of Innovation
Social Impact Innovation A to Z
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Social Impact Innovation A to Z - Board of Innovation
All the tools you need.
Social Impact Innovation A to Z - Board of Innovation
https://www.boardofinnovation.com/tools/social-impact-innovation-a-to-z/
Social Impact Innovation A to Z - Board of Innovation
Social Impact Partnerships Flowchart
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Social Impact Partnerships Flowchart - Board of Innovation
All the tools you need.
Social Impact Partnerships Flowchart - Board of Innovation
https://www.boardofinnovation.com/tools/social-impact-partnerships-flowchart/
Social Impact Partnerships Flowchart - Board of Innovation
 

🕵🏻‍♂️ Pitching

Pitching canvas
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Pitching canvas - Board of Innovation
Build the storyline of your pitch, covering all essential building blocks: problem, solution, business model, credibility, and call to action.
Pitching canvas - Board of Innovation
https://www.boardofinnovation.com/tools/pitching-canvas/
Pitching canvas - Board of Innovation
Pitching checklist
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Pitching checklist - Board of Innovation
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.
Pitching checklist - Board of Innovation
https://www.boardofinnovation.com/tools/pitching-checklist/
Pitching checklist - Board of Innovation
Pitch evaluation sheet
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Pitch evaluation sheet - Board of Innovation
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.
Pitch evaluation sheet - Board of Innovation
https://www.boardofinnovation.com/tools/pitch-evaluation-sheet/
Pitch evaluation sheet - Board of Innovation
Value proposition designer
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Value proposition designer - Board of Innovation
Use this value proposition tool to articulate the actual benefits of your solution and zone in on how your concept will serve customers.
Value proposition designer - Board of Innovation
https://www.boardofinnovation.com/tools/value-proposition-designer/
Value proposition designer - Board of Innovation
 

♟Strategy & Innovation

Innovation DNA
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Innovation DNA - Board of Innovation
Discovering which strategic goals really matter for your organization.
Innovation DNA - Board of Innovation
https://www.boardofinnovation.com/tools/innovation-dna/
Innovation DNA - Board of Innovation
Innovation matrix
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Innovation matrix - Board of Innovation
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.
Innovation matrix - Board of Innovation
https://www.boardofinnovation.com/tools/innovation-matrix/
Innovation matrix - Board of Innovation
3 horizons model
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3 horizons model - Board of Innovation
McKinsey's 3 horizons model helps you discuss growth strategy in relation to the core business over the months and years ahead. Download it as a PDF here.
3 horizons model - Board of Innovation
https://www.boardofinnovation.com/tools/three-horizons-of-innovation/
3 horizons model - Board of Innovation
Innovation pipeline poster
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Innovation pipeline poster - Board of Innovation
Shift gears between the different phases of the innovation pipeline effectively.
Innovation pipeline poster - Board of Innovation
https://www.boardofinnovation.com/tools/innovation-pipeline-poster/
Innovation pipeline poster - Board of Innovation
Innovation mission map
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Innovation mission map - Board of Innovation
Summarise your key insights to shape a clear innovation mission statement.
Innovation mission map - Board of Innovation
https://www.boardofinnovation.com/tools/innovation-mission-map/
Innovation mission map - Board of Innovation
Innovation blueprint
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Innovation blueprint - Board of Innovation
A structured overview of key elements of an innovation activity. Identify clear roles and allow your activities to be compared.
Innovation blueprint - Board of Innovation
https://www.boardofinnovation.com/tools/innovation-blueprint/
Innovation blueprint - Board of Innovation
Scoping canvas
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Scoping canvas - Board of Innovation
The ultimate 1-page template to help your team align on the scope of your innovation project.
Scoping canvas - Board of Innovation
https://www.boardofinnovation.com/tools/scoping-canvas/
Scoping canvas - Board of Innovation
Innovation landscape
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Innovation landscape - Board of Innovation
This innovation tool helps you distinguish new concepts and projects between the different (often highly confused) innovation types.
Innovation landscape - Board of Innovation
https://www.boardofinnovation.com/tools/innovation-landscape/
Innovation landscape - Board of Innovation
 

🧫 Culture

Cognitive biases poster
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Cognitive biases poster - Board of Innovation
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.
Cognitive biases poster - Board of Innovation
https://www.boardofinnovation.com/tools/cognitive-biases-poster/
Cognitive biases poster - Board of Innovation
 

⛳️ Social Impact

Social Impact toolkit
 
More on Guides on Business Models, Strategies, Playbooks, tools and many more;
Guides - Board of Innovation
Everything you need to know about innovation, in our free PDF guides, with examples, templates, agendas.
Guides - Board of Innovation
https://www.boardofinnovation.com/guides/
Guides - Board of Innovation
 
Watch previous webinars;
Innovation Webinars - Board of Innovation
Check out our latest webinars brought to you by our innovation professionals. These video courses are available right now and free to watch.
Innovation Webinars - Board of Innovation
https://www.boardofinnovation.com/webinars/
Innovation Webinars - Board of Innovation
 
Founders' Book is NOT affiliated to "Strategyzer" or "Board of Innovation" in any way, shape or form. These resources are strictly for educational purposes only. All users can access these templates on their respective websites.
 
Resources - Canvas, Tools & Guides
Discover all the tools created by Strategyzer to help you with your business. Innovation, Business Strategy, Value Propositions, Team Alignment, and more.
Resources - Canvas, Tools & Guides
https://www.strategyzer.com/resources/canvas-tools-guides
Resources - Canvas, Tools & Guides
Free innovation tools - Board of Innovation
Free innovation tools. We transformed a lot of leading innovation management theory into hands-on, easy-to-use, actionable innovation tools. Feel free to browse or download our tools. Featured post Our favorite digital tools for remote collaboration We've spent 10+ years testing digital tools for remote collaboration and innovation workshops. Here are the best!
Free innovation tools - Board of Innovation
https://www.boardofinnovation.com/tools/
Free innovation tools - Board of Innovation