From Design Thinking to Design Doing with our Innovation Workshop
Innovate at lightning-fast speed with our Innovation Sprint Toolkit. You’ll learn proven no-nonsense workshop methods to generate and execute ideas with ease.
Our Innovation Toolkit is an incredibly adaptable and versatile tool, expertly crafted around two of the five core principles of Design Thinking. It empowers you to swiftly explore the problem space and identify the most pressing challenge to tackle during the workshop.
Everything you need to run an Innovation Sprint Workshop
The toolkit was designed to help you start running Innovation workshops with your team. Inside the package, we’ve put together a collection of tried-and-tested exercises that have been very successful in both small businesses and large organizations alike! Here’s what you’ll find inside…
Simple
Framework
Facilitate Workshops
quickly and easily
Guides and
Templates
Develop Ideas
Quickly
Explore Challenges
Collaboratively
Amaze Workshop
Participants
Build products
for real people
Visualise Tomorrows
Solutions
Learn how to drive innovation with your teams in just one day with our guides, exercises and workshop plan.
What you will get inside
The toolkit is divided into four parts with practical exercises, prompt cards, worksheets, and a facilitator’s guide.
It includes step-by-step instructions and all resources for running an Innovation Workshop in just one day so your team can learn about, discuss and create ideas for new products or services together.
Session 1
Exploring the problem space
Explore problems and pain points with the goal of transforming these into challenges that you will solve during workshop.
Session 2
Defining people’s goals and frustrations
This part focuses on defining who might be affected by the challenge as well as how they interact with it.
Session 3
Developing ideas processes and features
Use people's stories to identify opportunities and features that might help them achieve their goals.
Session 4
Visualization and storyboarding
Create simple visualizations that show how someone would interact using your potential solution.
Who is the Innovation Workshop Toolkit for?
The Innovation Toolkit is a flexible tool for any team member inside your organization; CEOs, managers, product developers, designers, marketing teams, etc.
Managers & Team Leads
When you start an innovation project, do you have difficulties finding the right key improvement area with your team?
Product People & Designers
Do you get caught up in your ideas and struggle to decide which duties are the most important to complete?
Consultants & CEOs
Do you find developing new ideas results in time-consuming meetings in which you cannot seem to reach an agreement?
Yes? Then just learn to run Remote and In-Person Innovation Sprints like a PRO and build an effective Innovation A-Team.
We believe innovation should be part of the culture of an organization. Embraced by everyone will result in more cohesive work across teams as well as better products for customers.
What our clients say
We’ve trained many teams and clients all around the world. Here’s what they have to say…
Amazing workshop training experience fully remotely
Martin Backes and his team are undoubtedly skilled and qualified innovation practitioners who know what they are talking about. They gave us a great foundation in facilitation techniques and Design Sprint methodology. The quality of their teaching and facilitation and the attention to detail in the way they present their approach set them apart. There is no doubt the methodology works and it’s impressive that we could do it all remotely without a hitch. We would definitely recommend their service to everyone who wants to change their way of working and foster team collaboration with innovative ways of problem-solving, decision-making, all while de-risking strategic projects.
Working with Martin Backes and his studio was great. Awesome results!
We hired him to direct and consult us in our vision of becoming a worldwide-leading audio product. He used some custom-made Sprints to effectively align the Blinkist stakeholder team on the company’s brand and supported us in the process of becoming an audio-first company. The workshops were highly engaging and super productive. I was impressed by the amount of output we generated as a group, what would have taken months, took days. The Sprints gave our project the right boost to then go ahead and execute, bringing it to market only a few months later! In the end, we were even awarded the German Design Award for this project.
Highly recommend Martin for any training, or workshop facilitation role
I am happy to recommend Martin for his excellent work as a UX & Usability teacher, trainer, and workshop facilitator at XDi. Martin has a talent for explaining complex concepts in a clear and simple way, making it easy for students to understand. He is also skilled at tailoring learning programs to meet the unique needs of his students, providing actionable and practical takeaways for immediate application. I highly recommend Martin for any training, or workshop facilitation role. He is an exceptional educator and a valuable asset to any organization.
Martin is an exceptional UX & UI Design mentor, teacher, and workshop facilitator
Martin is an exceptional UX & UI Design mentor, teacher, and workshop facilitator. He has a remarkable talent for engaging and motivating his students while equipping them with the knowledge and skills they need to succeed. As a creative and dynamic instructor, Martin is constantly seeking new ways to make learning fun and engaging. His passion for teaching and his commitment to helping his students reach their goals is unparalleled. He is a great asset to StartSteps, and I highly recommend him.
Get in Touch
Prepare yourself to dive into exploring problems, identify the key players involved in your problem, and envision a possible solution. Learn more and ask for a consultation via this form or reserve an Innovation Sprint session with us.