Standalone tools
Tools are practical resources such as templates, canvases, checklists, and workshop formats that help you move from ideas to action. They can be used as part of a Building Block or as standalone resources, depending on your needs and context.
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Assess partner engagement
Maps partners based on what matters to them and what they can contribute, supporting more inclusive, collaborative, and effective ecosystem building.
Assumption matrix
Helps to map and prioritise which assumptions need further testing or validation to ensure the success of your initiative.
Brainstorm
Quick idea generation exercises that spark creativity.
Brainstorm rules
Explore how a problem can be enriched or stretched in a way to maximise value for as many partners when the problem is solved.@300x.png){kind=icon}
Build - Measure - Learn (BML)
Define your prototype based on your learning goals and the way you want to measure this.
Business model canvas
Visualise the revenue model and resources for different scaling options.
Business model cards
Helps to design or improve business models using proven real-world examples instead of starting from scratch.
Capabilities quicksheet
Maps what you need to scale a solution and what’s missing in your team, partners, and skills.
Card sorting
Helps to understand how users naturally group and organise information to create a more intuitive information architecture.
Checklist for challenge statement
A set of criteria used to evaluate the challenge statements, ensuring they are clear, actionable, and accurately reflect the identified root problems.
Coherence checklist
Evaluates whether an action plan is clear, realistic, well-organised, and ready for effective implementation and scaling.
Community map
Helps quickly identify, organise, and prioritise partners within the environment.
Core capability finder
Helps organisations identify their most important strengths and the capabilities needed for future innovation and growth.
Crazy 8
Rapid visual sketches of different solution directions in just a few minutes.
Create a pitch
Create a pitch that clearly and briefly explains the idea, its value, and why it matters (“why,” “what,” and “how”).
Create insight statements
Turn research findings into insights that guide ideation and prototyping.
Criteria canvas
Define and evaluate project criteria by ranking the level of energy, impact and ease per proposition.
Customer Journey
Helps to map customer interactions, identify pain points and moments of satisfaction, and improve the overall customer experience.
Defining the strategy timeline
Helps map the sequence, timing, and connections between projects to support coordinated implementation and funding planning.
Determine the testgroup
Engage both mainstream and extreme stakeholders to uncover diverse needs, challenges, and opportunities for more inclusive solutions.
Ecosystem analysis table
Identifies the interests and motivations of stakeholders, as well as possible actions to address these various interests.
Ecosystem map
Identify all stakeholders that are or should be in the ecosystem and understand how they interact.
Ecosystem timeline
Map the collaborative visual timeline to align partner actions and key decision points. It is recommended to use an online tool (e.g., Miro) so all partners can access and collaborate on the workflow.
Empathy map
From the point of view of each partner, connect pains and ambitions to possible value drivers.
Explore your values
Helps to identify and reflect on their core values to guide decisions, priorities, and collaboration.
Exploring scalability
Evaluates scalability through three key aspects: impact, desirability feasibility, and viability, to identify what must improve before scaling.
Find themes
Finding patterns/themes by organising large amounts of unstructured data or insights into thematic groups.
Five whys
Helps to uncover the deep motivations and assumptions, to understand the causes of a problem and identify its root cause.
Focus group
Gather feedback, opinions, beliefs, and attitudes through meetings with stakeholders.
Frame your challenge worksheet
Helps to align on a clear, shared understanding of the real challenge before jumping into solutions.
Funding strategy
Helps to figure out how to get the money needed to launch the idea or project.
How - Now - Wow matrix
Helps to select which ideas to implement or develop further by assessing each idea against feasibility and potential impact.
How might we questions
Turn user insights into clear opportunities to start building the right solutions.
How to run and facilitate interactive digital meetings
Helps facilitators design and run interactive online meetings with stakeholders using structured agendas, digital tools, and troubleshooting checklists.
Iceberg model
Move beyond visible incidents to uncover underlying patterns, structures, incentives, and behaviours affecting collaboration.
Impact - Effort matrix
Ranking ideas that highlights quick wins and strategic bets.
Impact clustering canvas
Helps to facilitate discussions among stakeholders, prioritize challenges, and explore solutions within a specific context.
Implementation plan
Creates awareness of all activities and actions that are needed. With the implementation plan you get a schedule with a clear timeline.
Innovation one pager
Define the MVP problem, solution direction, key assumptions to test, expected user value, success metrics, experiment team, and next steps.
Interviews
Gain a clear understanding of values, needs, motivations and ways of thinking of different stakeholders.
Kanban board
Use a visual overview to monitor progress and keep everyone focused on the jobs to be done. It is recommended to use an online tool (e.g., Miro) so all partners can access and collaborate on the workflow.
Live pilot
Test the MVP in real-world conditions to validate feasibility, user value, and viability while learning and iterating quickly.
Low fidelity prototype
A quick and easy tangible representation of an early stage solution, for example a storyboard, cardboard model or roleplay.
Marketing cards
Help to think of all that is needed to create the best message to reach a specific group.
MoSCoW prioritisation
Categorise features based on the need: Must have, Should have, Could have, Won’t have.
Monitor and evaluate
Measure key metrics such as usage frequency, retention, satisfaction, conversion.
Newspaper of tomorrow
Helps stakeholders create a shared future vision by imagining how a chosen topic would be reported in two to five years, guiding discussion and alignment.
Observations
Uncover user behaviours and context that may not be expressed verbally, providing insights.
Pains and gains conversation guide
Helps to determine the value that (potential) ecosystem partners are seeking.
Partner value matrix
Helps to identify what you get from your partners and what they get from you, to uncover the mutual benefits of collaboration.
Persona
Helps to understand and visualise a specific user group to make deliberate decisions about developing the solution direction.
Power - Interest matrix
Prioritise stakeholders based on influence and interest.
Project point of departure
Helps teams align on a project’s purpose, goals, expectations, roles, and ways of working with 9 questions.
Quickstart engagement canvas
Helps teams identify stakeholders and plan how to effectively engage and communicate with them.
RACI matrix
Clarifies who is Responsible, Accountable, Consulted, Informed to build clarity and accountability. It is recommended to use an online tool (e.g., Miro) so all partners know their role.
Retrospective workshop
Add a recurring "contract review" to your meeting agenda, e.g., in the form of a retrospective to evaluate if the rules are still being followed or if updates are needed.
Roles and responsibilities
Helps to clarify who is responsible for what within a team to improve collaboration, accountability, and efficiency.
Scope canvas
Helps to scope the challenge you want to focus on in your project and define its strategic intent.
Shared dreams workshop
Define a shared dream image with partners and/or stakeholders.
Six persuasion principles
The six principles of persuasion which describe key psychological triggers that influence people to say “yes” or take action.
Staff your project
Assigning the right people (with the right skills and roles) to your project so it can be successfully scaled.
Stakeholder power categories
Helps with categorising stakeholders by their impact from and power over a project to guide analysis and decision-making.
Stakeholder radar
Using circles of influence to map stakeholders.
Swimlane diagram
Map each partner’s workflow and identify the key interdependencies. It is recommended to use an online tool (e.g., Miro) so all partners can access and collaborate on the workflow.
System map
Helps visualise how a system is structured, including its components, relationships, and dependencies to improve overall understanding.
Tailored value messaging checklist
Helps to create personalised messages highlighting the value for different audiences.
Team charter
Use a pre-made framework to structure your social contract. It is recommended to use an online tool (e.g., Miro) so all partners can access and collaborate on the workflow.
The 9 value roles
Identify the partners in your ecosystem and map each one to the role they play to better understand relationships, dependencies, and opportunities within the system.
Value builder
Ensure ideas align with previously identified challenges by mapping what each stakeholder values, tailoring the solution to meet those needs, and communicating that value clearly.