From Design Thinking to Design Doing with our Innovation Workshop
Innovate at the speed of thought with our Innovation Workshop Toolkit. You’ll learn proven Design Thinking techniques to help you power through ideas and bring them into reality.
Our Innovation Toolkit is an adaptable and versatile tool, developed around two of the five core principles of Design Thinking, which enables you to discover the problem space and decide the main challenge to focus on throughout the workshop in a very quick time.
Everything you need to run your own Innovation 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
Frameworks
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 power innovation for your clients or teams in just one day with our guides, exercises and workshop plan.
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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 and teaching 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.
Great to work with, easy going and very professional
Working with Martin Backes and his studio was great. 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.
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