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Tailoring ITK Tools: Stakeholder Map & Matrix
Q: Team Toolkit, you always encourage me to tailor the ITK tools for my needs. I’m in! But HOW exactly, do I do that?? A: Great question, anonymous audience member! While “tailoring” inherently implies that every case is unique, here’s an example approach...
Innovation Resiliency: It’s possible and has been demonstrated!
What happens when you combine numerous cancelled conferences, a requirement for social distancing, and a desire for innovation…?! As organizers of major conferences began cancelling events in March due to the growing spread of COVID-19, the opportunities to...
Hosting a Virtual Challenge Statement Workshop
The COVID-19 pandemic is changing the nature of the way we work, including how we host workshops and collaborate with each other. In the midst of a pandemic, the Innovation Toolkit partnered with Bridging Innovation to work virtually with sponsors to craft challenge...
Objection Handling
When pitching a method from the Innovation Toolkit, we are (not surprisingly) occasionally met with a little resistance... or even a brick wall or two. The tools and methods we’re suggesting people try are generally new, foreign, and might require people to step a bit...
Announcing Mini Canvases!
ITK is proud to announce our latest creation, miniature versions of some of our most popular tools!
LIFT Interview
This week's blog post is an interview with Dan Ward, talking about his new book Lift - Innovation Lessons From Flying Machines That ALMOST Worked and The People Who NEARLY Flew Them. As a special bonus, we've got a 14-minute audio version of the interview, which is...
What Is Innovation?
There’s a lot of confusion about what innovation is. This week’s blog post aims to clear that up for you.
Why Journey Map Is My Favorite
Choosing the right tool for your specific situation is an important first step, because trying to use the wrong tool can be frustrating and wastes time. One tool I find useful in a wide range of situations is the Journey Map, so this week’s blog post takes a look at...
INTERVIEW: Jessica Yu
This month I sat down with Jessica Yu whose last name I sometimes interchange with Bourne or Wick. As a modern-day renaissance woman, once she learns to fly a helicopter, she’ll be one of my first picks for an apocalypse survival squad. Without her, ITK would have...
Customizing Tools
Our previous blog post looked at the Rose, Bud, Thorn canvas, one of the most popular tools in the kit. This week’s post continues on that theme, but with a bit of a twist. A few months back one of our ITK facilitators received an interesting request from a potential...