innovation

Turns starting assumptions, opportunities, and strategic options into a tangible result by defining scope, filling the nine blocks, and developing alternatives.

Core question: How does the business model create, deliver, and capture value, and which assumptions should be checked first?

1-2 h

2-8

Turns ideas, open questions, and testable next steps into a tangible result by mapping the challenge, sketching solutions, and testing with users.

Core question: What solution sketch for the core sprint question yields a testable prototype in four days that can be tested with real users on Day 5?

4-5 Tage

5-8

Turns ideas, open questions, and testable next steps into a tangible result by performing empathy-based research, defining the problem, and testing and iterating with users.

Core question: Which real user problem is worth solving, and which solution idea survives a test with real users?

1 Tag bis mehrere Wochen

4-10

Turns ideas, open questions, and testable next steps into a tangible result by choosing an object or problem, working through SCAMPER questions, and prioritizing concepts.

Core question: Which of the seven variations of the existing object creates an idea that reaches the goal better than the original?

30-60 min

2-10

Turns ideas, open questions, and testable next steps into a tangible result by defining the problem and dimensions, collecting alternatives per dimension, and working out compelling concepts.

Core question: Which novel solution combinations emerge when all relevant dimensions of the problem are systematically cross-combined?

1-3 h

2-8

Clarifies ideas, open questions, and testable next steps by framing the contradiction, identifying improving and worsening factors, and checking feasibility.

Core question: Which inventive principles resolve the identified contradiction, and which concrete concepts emerge when these principles are applied to the problem?

1-4 h

2-8

Clarifies starting point, opportunities, and strategic options by defining the competitive factors, drawing the current value curve, and testing a new value curve.

Core question: Which competitive factors can we reduce or eliminate, which can we raise or create, in order to build a distinct value curve?

2-4 h

3-10

Turns ideas, open questions, and testable next steps into a tangible result by naming the improvement goal, stating the worsening side effect, and refining and testing solution ideas.

Core question: Which improvement causes which downside, and which assumption makes the contradiction appear unavoidable?

60-120 min

2-8

Alternating divergent and convergent phases keep problem framing and solution design visibly separated for product work.

Core question: What framed problem and what implemented solution does the team deliver through deliberate divergence and convergence across two diamonds?

Wochen bis Monate

3-12

Structures current business, emerging growth fields, and future options across three horizons so portfolio decisions can balance today, tomorrow, and later.

Core question: How is the current initiative portfolio distributed across the three horizons, which imbalances become visible, and which reallocation secures both today and tomorrow?

Halbtags-Workshop, dann iterativ

3-12

Quantifies customer desired outcomes for a job and identifies underserved needs as innovation opportunities.

Core question: Which desired outcomes are important and insufficiently fulfilled for which customer segments, and where is the largest quantitative innovation lever?

Mehrere Wochen

2-6 Researcher und Sample