20+ Innovation Tools Downloadable as PDFs & MS Office Files

Power up your innovation toolbox with over 20 tools and templates specifically curated for creating, validating, building and scaling a new idea from start to finish.

The Innovator's Canvas

The Innovator's Canvas is an all-new way to model innovation and new business opportunities. 

Customer Empathy Map

Guide your customer interviews and get inside the mind of your customer using the Customer Empathy Map.

Customer Journey Map

Understand the journey your customers take from need recognition to final purchase.

Customer Persona 

Give your target customer segment a name, face and a story as to who they are and what is important to them.

Discovery Learning Log

Document your experiments the smart way and accelerate your cycle time through the Build - Measure - Learn loop.

Four Types of Innovation Cheat Sheet

Crystalize your innovation strategy and go-to-market plan using the Four Types of Innovation as a framework for success.

Industry Transformation Cheat Sheet

Using Value Chain Evolution as the framework, this cheat sheet will help you anticipate industry transformations.

Market Distribution Map

Using the Market Distribution Map you can model the dynamics of your market and plan your innovation strategy.

MVP Storyboard

Using the MVP Storyboard you are able to craft an effective story for how your MVP will address your customer's needs.

Letter of Intent to Purchase Template

With this letter you are able to capture signatures of potential customers - tangible evidence of customer interest.

Customer Screener Survey Template

With this screener template you'll be able to quickly line up customers to interview who are squarely in your target segment.

Feasibility & Attractiveness Dashboard

With numerous ways to solve a problem and model a business, this dashboard helps hone in on the one most likely to succeed.

Team Charter Canvas

This canvas will help you facilitate team formation and rally your team around building the solution and business model.

Service Design Blueprint

For service innovations this canvas will help you design a customer experience beyond their wildest expectations.

Solution Requirements Canvas

This canvas is the workhorse for documenting market and product requirements for your big new idea.

Message Design Canvas

Craft compelling and powerful product messaging that sticks with your customers and compels them toward purchase.

The Brand Canvas

Create a beautiful brand story with personality and visual components that appeal to your customers high aspirations.

Channel Design Canvas

Create a cost-effective channel to your customers that consistently turns dimes of marketing into dollars of revenue.

Solution Planning Map

A substitute to traditional roadmaps, this canvas helps you plan releases around a series of customer pains to solve.

Vision and Strategy Canvas

This canvas clearly defines and outlines the vision for your business and the principles, strategy and metrics to help you get there.

Business Process Map

This template will help you create business process maps in order to cost-effectively scale your innovation to more customers.