If you want to teach people a new way of thinking, … give them a tool, ...

Buckminster Fuller

Any practice can be streamlined, accelerated, or even enabled with the proper tools. This is especially true for innovation. As a knowledge based process, innovation requires tools for discovery, analysis, synthesis, communication, and decision making.

Inovo's tool suite has been developed over many years of research and real world application - and it continues to evolve with new tools being added every year. They are designed to address the hot spots where structured methods and computation can make a real difference - enabling entirely new ways of working with knowledge and making decisions.

Inovo has tools for:

  • Strategic Domain Identification - Determining where to explore for new opportunities
  • Opportunity Exploration - Finding new opportunities that have true evidence of unmet need
  • Community Building - Finding the hidden communities of practice that hold knowledge of unmet needs and desires
  • Ecosystem Modeling - Finding all the influences that shape the desirability and value of an offering
  • Elicitation - Engaging with customers and possible adopters to understand how they think and choose
  • Persona Creation - Segmenting populations by core motivation rather than past behavior
  • Modeling - Simulating product adoption in software, even before the first prototype
  • Ideation - Harnessing the creativity of groups and individuals
  • Decision Support - Using the full capability of the organization to make early stage decisions with uncertain or ambiguous information
  • Options Development - Creating a portfolio of business hypotheses ready for New Business Development activities

 

The synergy between theory, methods, and tools lies at the heart of any field of human endeavor that truly builds knowledge.

Peter Senge