Top Tools
What Is Creative Problem-Solving and How to do it right with your team? Steps, Processes, Exercises. Clearly defining and framing your challenge helps guide efforts and make sure you’re team is focused on what matters most.
Exercises to come to a decision faster, with less friction, sans circular discussions! With a decision making process that connects to a problem solving cycle and next steps. Making headway on the right initiative, generating higher impact ideas and tactics.
Watch the marketing genius behind Apples "Think Different Campaign" by Steve Jobs. To inspire your team to focus on your core values, vision for the world and the people your product empowers and celebrates.
Guide on how to improve team collaboration. Outlining proven benefits of collaboration, to share with team. Walking you through steps you can take as a facilitator or leader to improve team collaboration in meetings.
An overview of why it's important for innovative solution creation. Walk through the Design Thinking processes, and why they're so important to innovation! Do you use the Design Thinking mindset and principles to develop products or other innovative practices? What exercises do you use for each step, and why?
Learn this top tool used by 99% of Fortune 500 co's. To prioritize activities, make the most of your teams time and capabilities. When used to choose activities strategically, teams spend more time on high-value activities that drive things forward, and drop low impact items.
Two Hour Content Marketing Framework for Beginners
Content marketing is vital in developing your audience’s “know, like and trust” factor. Overcoming objectives and increases perceived value of your offers, and increases customer lifetime. This simple framework shows how to create compelling content and repurpose it for multiple platforms 2-hours per month.
Content Marketing Workbook by Hubspot
A beginners guide to applying content marketing to your business strategy. Guiding you through your content marketing transformation, building a content marketing framework to effectively create powerful engaging stories, repurposing, promoting and analyzing your contents success.
The field of Jobs To Be Done (JTBD) offers a practical framework for creating customer-centered solutions.
Focus on what people strive to get done — their "job" — and you'll find new opportunities. JTBD Toolkit shows you how. Make a difference in your organization with simple techniques you can use right away
Workshop Templates for Collaboration and solution creation
Find inspiration for your next project initiative with your team or even to facilitate more efficient work and outcomes for yourself. High-quality workshop, meeting structure and agendas.
Book Shelf
This shelf includes top books in the Design Thinking, Creative Problem Solving and Innovation space, that we use most. This collection is an amalgamation of the work of the greatest thought leaders, authors and practitioners, who concisely define the most significant mental models, frameworks, principles and methods. Inspiring the practices of leading fortune 500 companies and consulting firms, globally.
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Its a great place to give your product, marketing and innovation teams added clarity and focused approach to upskilling together. By using a finite set of the most proven, battletested and applied resources.
Tools To Apply to Your Innovative Collaboration Work Today
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Workshop Playbook
Step-by-step workshops explained so that you can run to effectively solve problems you often face. Battletested facilitation methods proven to align any team. ​Learn 4 step framework to design workshop for any outcome. Develop creative solutions and make important decisions with your team by implementing the Workshop Mindset. Created by: AJ&Smart.
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Idea Funnel and Action Board
A central feedback loop to gather insights and take action. And systematized framework to capture, synthesize and rank inputs by impact value to customer and business. Frame out your top ideas with top details for concept creation and prioritization.+ backlog to manage what to work on first and tactical solution sessions to take concepts live.
Innovation Workshop Playbook
This Free playbook by AJ&Smart provides a framework and
play-by-play instructions on how to create and run any collaboration workshop, when you need to get your team aligned, effectively problem solving, creating and prioritizing solutions.