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Summary

The Innovator's Toolkit explains all the fundamental tools and concepts anyone involved in innovation should be familiar with, including improving products and services, and developing new ones. The book is written in an easy-to-use reference format that helps users understand why, when and how to apply each tool. The tools and techniques in this book are organized around a 4-step innovation methodology: Define, Discover, Develop and Demonstrate (D4), which takes readers through problem identification, then flows into idea generation, idea selection and, finally, idea implementation.

Author Biography

DavidSilverstein is founder and CEO of Breakthrough Management Group International, a consulting and training organization focused on innovation, Six Sigma, and business excellence. His articles have been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Worth, Investor's Business Daily, BusinessWeek, and other media. For more information, visit www.BMGi.com.

Philip Samuel is Chief Innovation Officer atBreakthrough Management Group International, a frequent public speaker, and an executive coach on innovation, Six Sigma, and Lean practices. He is also coauthor of Design for Lean Six Sigma.

Neil DeCarlo is a veteran business author and publishing consultant. He has written more than 200 articles and papers on performance excellence, and is coauthor of Insourcing Innovation, Six Sigma For Dummies, and The Complete Idiot's Guide to Lean Six Sigma.

Define the Opportunity
Techniques and Tools For Identifying High-Potential Innovation Projects
Technique
Jobs To Be Done
Determine the human need you're trying to fulfill
Technique
Outcome Expectations
Give customers more of what they desire
Technique
Value Quotient
Identify opportunity gaps in the marketplace
Technique
Ethnography
Observe your customers to uncover unarticulated needs
Techniques and Tools for Scoping and Focusing Innovation Projects
Technique
Heuristic Redefinition
Draw a picture of your system and its parts to focus ideation
Technique
Nine Windows
Looking at your opportunity through nine different lenses
Technique
Job Scoping
Broaden or narrow your innovation focus
Techniques and Tools for Effectively Managing People, Projects, and Innovation ROI
Technique
Stakeholder Management
Get key influencers involved and on your side
Technique
Cognitive Style
Leverage the diversity of your exploiters and explorers
Technique
Project Charter
Keep your innovation team focused and on track
Technique
Innovation Financial Management
Constantly improve your assumption-to-knowledge ratio
Discover the Ideas
Techniques and Tools for Re ning Innovation Opportunities
Technique
Resource Optimization
Make sure you use all available resources
Technique
Functional Analysis
Scrutinize your system for innovation
Technique
Trend Prediction
Learn from evolution's genetic code
Technique
Creative Challenge
Sacrifice the sacred cows
Techniques and Tools for Leveraging Brainpower and Turbo-Charging Creativity
Technique
Hit Matrix
Compare existing solutions to spark new breakthroughs
Technique
Scamper
Ask eight important questions
Technique
Brainwriting 6-3-5
Encourage equal opportunity ideation
Technique
Imaginary Brainstorming
Get silly for the sake of creativity
Technique
Concept Tree
Leverage current ideas to generate many ideas
Technique
Random Stimulus
Use an unrelated picture or word to spawn new ideas
Technique
Provocation and Movement
Step over the roadblocks in your thinking
Techniques and Tools for Exloring All Human Knowledge and Nature
Technique
Structured Abstraction
Guide your innovation using 40 proven principles
Technique
Separation Principles
Split your innovation problem in four ways
Technique
76 Standard Solutions
Learn how substances interact with fields to form solutions
Technique 26 Biomimicry
Seek nature's eons of experience to find answers
Techniques and Tools for Selecting the Best Ideas for Further Development and Design
Technique
KJ Method
Group and organize ideas by their natural affinities
Technique
Idea Harvesting and Treatment
Organize and shape ideas to improve their yield
Technique
Six Thinking Hats
Evaluate your solution ideas in six different ways
Develop the Solution
Techniques and Tools for Formulating an Initial Design
Technique
Performance and Perception Expectations
Identify what customers want in your solution
Technique
Axiomatic Design
Transform what customers want into the best products and services
Technique
Function Structure
Identify how the sol
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