A key benefit of working with PI includes receiving specific tools and templates that help product leaders drive innovation activities immediately. These tools range from complete, end-to-end innovation processes to specific customer insight, ideation, evaluation, and decision making tools.

Facilitated Innovation Project Resources

Examples of the resources we provide clients for facilitated innovation projects include:

• Innovation Process Documentation that can be customized to become part of the company's processes

• Innovation project planning templates and guidelines

• Ideation templates with step-by-step instructions for teams

• Tools to build customer insight systems including step-by-step methods to build and maintain a customer panel, how to effectively interview customers, etc.

• Tools and templates to efficiently analyze and evaluate new products and markets

• A range of document templates to write use case, requirements, product plans, product launch plans, etc.

Clients have complete digital access to all documents and tools with rights to customize and own as they need. 

Learning Programs Resources

For learning programs, such as our workshops, we use many of the tools listed above, but also have developed special learning aides for participants of our workshops. Each of our workshops provides detailed workbooks with concepts, examples, and exercises in both hardcopy and electronic versions

We also provide a series of "Product Innovator Cheat Sheets" for workshop participants to use as reference guides for key principles and methods. One of these was included as an example in our latest newsletter that summarizes the six core steps to deliver customer-driven product innovation. Each element is described along with recommended Action Steps! for Innovation Teams to succeed. 

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Each PI workshop includes one or more Cheat Sheets based on the program content. These are some of our current Cheat Sheets:

• The Foundation for Value-Driven Marketing for Product Innovators

• Critical Product Innovator Leadership Skills

• Implementing Innovation Processes at the Enterprise-level

• Driving Innovation Projects

• Building Customer Insight Systems

• Writing Product Requirements to Clearly Define Products and Priorities

• High-impact Product Launches for Innovative Products

• Targeted Ideation Frameworks to Spark New Thinking

• Leading Team-based Decisions

• Opportunity Identification for High Potential Products

• Market Analysis and Planning to Validate and Plan for New Markets

• Product Strategy & Planning for Clear, Effective Product Strategies

• Building Effective Business Cases

• Managing Product Portfolios and Making Investment Decisions

• Strategic Pricing to Optimize Sales and Profits of New Products

PI also publishes articles and select tools through our newsletter, The Product Innovator's Toolkit, and always make our full suite of tools available to clients for download at anytime after an engagement.