The Innovator's Toolkit: 50+ Techniques for Predictable and Sustainable Organic GrowthAn innovation guide for business leaders, managers, and new product developers. The Innovator's Toolkit explains all the fundamental tools and concepts anyone involved in innovation should be familiar with--especially methods and strategies for improving products and services and developing new ones. This book is written in an easy-to-use reference format that helps readers understand why, when, and how to apply each tool. The tools and techniques in this book are organized around a four-step innovation methodology--define, discover, develop, and demonstrate--that takes readers through problem identification, then flows into idea generation, idea selection, and, finally, idea implementation. Constant innovation is a necessity for business success today; The Innovator's Toolkit presents an effective plan for achieving it. |
Contents
Jobs To Be Done | 3 |
Outcome Expectations | 9 |
Value Quotient | 15 |
Ethnography | 21 |
Heuristic Redefinition | 27 |
Nine Windows | 35 |
Stakeholder Management | 44 |
Cognitive Style | 51 |
Develop the Solution | 177 |
Axiomatic Design | 185 |
Function Structure | 193 |
TILMAG | 204 |
1 Imaginary Brainstorming | 207 |
Paired Comparison Analysis | 208 |
Process Capability | 217 |
Robust Design | 223 |
Project Charter | 59 |
Innovation Financial Management | 66 |
Discover the Ideas | 75 |
Functional Analysis | 83 |
Trend Prediction | 91 |
Creative Challenge | 100 |
SCAMPER | 107 |
2 Structure of a Job Statement | 113 |
Imaginary Brainstorming | 114 |
Random Stimulus | 122 |
Structured Abstraction | 132 |
Separation Principles | 138 |
76 Standard Solutions | 144 |
Biomimicry | 153 |
KJ Method | 159 |
Six Thinking Hats | 169 |
Design Failure Mode and Effects Analysis | 240 |
Discrete Event Simulation | 248 |
Rapid Prototyping | 255 |
Demonstrate the Innovation | 261 |
Piloting | 269 |
SIPOC Map | 275 |
Making Sure Processes Are Optimized for Efficient and Flawless Operations | 287 |
Work Cell Design | 295 |
Mistake Proofing | 301 |
Conjoint Analysis | 312 |
Process Behavior Charts | 318 |
Cause Effect Diagram | 325 |
Control Plan | 332 |
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