Tools
EDG offers a range of tools to help users increase their capacity for innovation and change. The tools can be applied independently or in connection with our services and training.
Enterprise Development Map and Enterprise Development PrimerThe CO-STAR Value Proposition Template
ValueSTEP Innovation Survey
FOCUS Toolkit
Customized Toolkits
Enterprise Development Map and Enterprise Development Primer
The Enterprise Development Map is central to the Enterprise Development process. A graphic representation of the Enterprise Development Framework, the map provides visual cues and touchstones along the client journey. Clients co-create an Enterprise Development Map based on their specific circumstances and challenges, and then follow that map through strategy to execution of their vision for the future.
The Enterprise Development Primer is a twenty-four page “skeleton” version of the key tools presented in full detail in our book, The Dynamic Enterprise: Tools for Turning Chaos into Strategy and Strategy into Action. The Primer is a concise introduction to the Enterprise Development Map and the Toolkit for filling it in.
The CO-STAR Value Proposition Template
In Silicon Valley the oft-repeated refrain is not: “Do you have a cool idea?” Rather, it is: “Can you pitch me the value proposition of your idea?” More important than the idea itself are questions such as: Will the idea be relevant to a customer? Will there be a market for it? How is it taking advantage of an emerging trend or a new technology? Is it better than other available alternatives? What kind of returns can be expected? The CO-STAR template helps its users craft a compelling value proposition and iterate it effectively with others until it may become a market-worthy new venture. And in more and more places the question today is: “Can you offer me a CO-STAR of your idea?” Request your free copy of the template.
ValueSTEPTM Innovation Survey
To most efficiently develop the full potential of your innovation capabilities, it helps to know what is already working and what is not. What are your current innovation strengths and weaknesses compared to best practices? EDG’s ValueSTEP Innovation Survey helps you track 16 Innovation Success Factors that separate the peak performers from the serendipitous innovators.
ValueSTEP is a useful tool for setting your innovation baseline and regularly measuring capabilities as your enterprise builds its innovation competence.
See our ValueSTEP overview for further details.
FOCUS Toolkit
Finding Optimal Customer Solutions, or FOCUS, is a step-by-step guide that allows you to rapidly identify high-value customer solutions. The FOCUS method drills down to subject areas, uncovers important needs and highlights the points of greatest opportunity. The FOCUS Toolkit is a guide to engaging key stakeholders, subject experts and even customers in collaborative brainstorming activities to develop breakthrough solutions.
FOCUS handbooks direct users through the preparation and agenda planning needed to set up and run a FOCUS Workshop. The handbooks provide instruction and facilitation tips as well as advice on how to turn your insights into actions and your prototypes into products.
Customized Toolkits
To accelerate adoption and ensure lasting benefit, we select our best practices and techniques to assemble a unique toolkit tailored to your company’s business and culture
We co-develop the right kit with you—one that continues to produce innovation breakthroughs and is compatible with your enterprise. Combine the best of your company's tools with our best practices to build a flexible Innovation Toolkit anyone can—and will—use.
