The Innovator's Toolkit: 50+ Techniques for Predictable and Sustainable Organic Growth, Second Edition

In this Book

• The Innovator’s Toolkit—50+ Techniques for Predictable and Organic Sustainable Growth, Second Edition
• Preface
• Introduction
• Jobs to be Done—Highlight the human need you’re trying to fulfill.
• Job Mapping—Determine how customers are getting jobs done.
• Outcome Expectations—Give customers more of what they desire.
• Value Quotient—Identify opportunity gaps in the marketplace.
• Ethnography—Observe your customers to uncover unarticulated needs.
• Scenario Planning—Paint visions of possible change.
• Heuristic Redefinition—Draw a picture of your system and its parts to focus ideation.
• Nine Windows—Looking at your opportunity through nine different lenses.
• Job Scoping—Broaden or narrow your innovation focus.
• Stakeholder Management—Get key influencers involved and on your side.
• Cognitive Style—Leverage the diversity of your exploiters and explorers.
• Project Charter—Keep your innovation team focused and on track.
• Innovation Financial Management—Constantly improve your assumption-to-knowledge ratio.
• Resource Optimization—Make sure you use all available resources.
• Functional Analysis—Scrutinize your system for innovation.
• Trend Prediction—Learn from evolution’s genetic code.
• Creative Challenge—Sacrifice the sacred cows.
• HIT Matrix—Compare existing solutions to spark new breakthroughs.
• SCAMPER—Ask eight important questions.
• Brainwriting 6-3-5—Encourage equal opportunity ideation.
• Imaginary Brainstorming—Get silly for the sake of creativity.
• Concept Tree—Leverage current ideas to generate many ideas.
• Random Stimulus—Use an unrelated picture or word to spawn new ideas.
• Provocation and Movement—Bust through the roadblocks in your thinking.
• Forced Association—Hone in on solutions from other industries.
• Structured Abstraction—Guide your innovation using 40 proven principles.
• Separation Principles—Split your innovation problem in four ways.
• Substance Field Analysis—Learn how substances interact with fields to form solutions.
• Biomimicry—Seek nature’s eons of experience to find answers.
• KJ Method—Group and organize ideas by their natural affinities.
• Idea Sorting and Refinement—Organize and shape ideas to improve their yield.
• Six Thinking Modes*—Evaluate your solution ideas in six different ways.
• Functional Requirements—Identify what customers want in your solution.
• Axiomatic Design—Transform what customers want into the best products and services.
• Function Structure—Identify how the solution functions in its whole and its parts.
• Morphological Matrix—Generate solution concepts by combining design alternatives.
• TILMAG—Pair ideal solution elements to create new design concepts.
• Work Cell Design—Configure the workspace for flow and optimization.
• Paired Comparison Analysis—Rank design concepts against each other in pairs.
• Pugh Matrix—Evaluate all your design concepts to create the invincible solution.
• Process Capability—Predict the performance of your new solution.
• Robust Design—Make your design insensitive to uncontrollable influences.
• Design Scorecards—Develop a dashboard to track your design and its underlying processes.
• Design Failure Mode and Effects Analysis—Anticipate what can go wrong with your solution before it does.
• Mistake Proofing—Install measures to prevent human and system error.
• Discrete Event Simulation—Visualize and test your innovation through computer modeling.
• Rapid Prototyping—Make a fast 3D model of your solution to explore its viability.
• Prototyping—Make a fully functioning model of your new product to test and perfect it.
• Piloting—Implement your solution on a limited basis to work out any problems.
• SIPOC Map—Identify the key inputs and outputs of your process.
• Process Map/Value Stream Map—Flesh out the details of your process.
• Measurement Systems Analysis—Make sure you know your measurements are valid.
• Design of Experiments—Analyze input and output variables to identify the critical few.
• Conjoint Analysis—Compare solution attributes to cull out customer preferences.
• Process Behavior Charts—Monitor process performance to keep the new solution in control.
• Cause & Effect Diagram—Investigate the root causes of performance problems.
• Cause & Effect Matrix—Identify the key input-output relationships in need of attention.
• Control Plan—Ensure that your new solution becomes commercialized as planned.