A consistent innovation method for your whole organisation.
From a problem to a prioritised portfolio of solutions: templates that teach your teams how to frame the problem, capture and score ideas, shape the best into a product concept and define the experiments that inform the decision. One shared innovation language and your brand on every document. And a realistic case shows the thinking and decisions at each stage, from the problem statement to scoring and framing the solution.
- Brainstorming sessionsFrame the problem in the room, capture every idea on its own canvas and leave with ideas ready to score.
- Innovation teamsThe foundation for a new team: one method, one set of documents and a worked case to learn from.
- Across the companyProblems, ideas and product concepts circulate in one format anyone can read and build on.
One-time payment · Licensed to your whole organisation · Instant download
- End-to-end realistic example
- 8 in-depth templates
- Quick Start Guide
- AI-ready Markdown files
- 20 AI prompts
One system of templates, worked through a real-world problem.
Every template teaches as it is filled in, with guidance and advisory notes on the page: how to frame a problem clearly, capture ideas in a shape others can challenge, score them on nine criteria, shape the best into a product concept and design the experiments for its riskiest assumptions. The documents are fully editable and carry your brand, so the whole organisation works from one shared innovation language. And the method comes with a realistic case: one problem worked through every document, six ideas framed and scored, the winner framed as a product, three experiments designed and a go/no-go decision returned to the sponsor. It shows the method, the thinking, the decisions and what good looks like.
How an open-ended brief becomes an evidence-backed decision.
- 00 · BriefThe sponsor asksA global problem, a concern for one market, one quarter, a small team.
- 01 · ProblemThe team frames itWho is affected, how severely, what doing nothing costs, with the sources.
- 02 · IdeasSix ideas take shapeFrom an insurance product to a workplace academy, each framed in full.
- 03 · ScoreIM-9 picks a winnerSix ideas on nine criteria. Virtual Startups comes first at 7.1.
- 04 · ProductThe winner becomes a productCustomers, value, business model, and the risks, named and numbered.
- 05 · ExperimentsThree experiments for the riskiest assumptionsEach with a metric, a target and a decision rule agreed before the data arrives.
- 09 · DecisionOne page back to the sponsorWhat we did, what we found, what we ask for: go or no-go.
A hypothetical case, clearly labelled as one. The problem is real; the organisation, the people, the ideas and the scores are invented for learning.
From a problem worth solving to a product worth testing.
Eight templates cover the journey from problem to tested product, and each one also works on its own. Five Word documents structure the thinking at every stage. The IM-9 workbook in Excel, with its guide, turns a long list of ideas into a ranked shortlist you can defend. Two printable canvases are made for deep-focus, in-person brainstorming: paper on the table, no screens, and ideas that leave the room ready to score.
Fully editable Word, Excel and PowerPoint files, with nothing locked behind a password, made for Microsoft 365 and Office 2016 or later; they also open in Google Workspace, with some limits. Rebrand, restyle, restructure or translate them as you need; every style is named, and the README shows how to protect the structure for colleagues.
Guided from day one, with AI as a sparring partner.
The Quick Start Guide gets your team up to speed and helps you orchestrate the process: which template to use when, how the pieces fit together, and how to take a first problem through the full sequence. The AI prompt kit works with the assistant you already use: its prompts make it interview you, challenge your thinking and suggest alternatives, never inventing your answers.
| In the box | What it is | Format |
|---|---|---|
| Quick Start Guide open first | 17 slides to get up to speed: the documents, the flow, how to run the process, the worked case and the terms of use. | |
| 01 · Templates | The eight templates and the IM-9 guide, in one consistent design, ready to copy, customise and share. | Word · Excel · PowerPoint |
| 02 · Examples | The worked case: nine sample documents from the sponsor’s brief to the Decision Brief, plus the live scored workbook. | PDF · Excel |
| 03 · AI prompt kit | Markdown versions of the Word templates and the workbook, a library of 20 prompts and a README, for any AI assistant or for Ainna. | Markdown |
| README · Licence | The workflow, how to use and customise the templates, and the licence in full. | Text |
One score per idea, nine criteria, weights you set.
IM-9 brings method to idea assessment. Every idea is scored against the same nine criteria and the same written anchors, with weights agreed before anyone scores, so assessments stay objective, consistent across teams and rounds, and sound enough to defend in front of a sponsor. Documented in Innovation Mode, delivered as an Excel workbook with a guide.
| Profile | Imp | Rel | Eff | Feas | Dev | Ops | Impact | Nov | Demand |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Balanced | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 10 |
| Quick wins | 5 | 5 | 10 | 15 | 20 | 20 | 10 | 5 | 10 |
| Strategic bets | 20 | 20 | 10 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 20 | 15 | 5 |
| Validated demand | 10 | 10 | 15 | 10 | 5 | 5 | 15 | 5 | 25 |
Switch to Quick wins and the Talent Transfer Exchange comes first; Strategic bets widens the winner’s lead. Read the profiles, not just the totals.
Built for innovation teams.
A shared language and a structured way of working for everyone who turns problems into products: innovation leaders, product teams and R&D inside organisations.
Innovation managers & CINOs
Standard documents for problem framing, ideation, scoring and validation across business units, a worked case to train teams on, and a scoring model you can defend in front of a board.
Product managers & R&D leaders
Frame products with named risks, design experiments with decision rules, and prioritise with a weighted model instead of a debate.
A published method, built by a practitioner.
The templates are simple enough to use on day one and deep enough to change how a team thinks. Their questions push innovators to look at an idea from every angle and to challenge the assumptions they would otherwise take for granted.
Built on a published method
Every template maps to a stage of Innovation Mode (Innovation Mode Publishing, 2026): its 70+ interventions, the Innovation Deficits diagnostic, the Maturity Index and the Six Phases of transformation.
By George Krasadakis
More than 25 years of hands-on work in data, AI and innovation: named inventor on 18 patent families filed at Microsoft, Accenture and ResMed, more than 80 projects shipped, five ventures founded, and advisory engagements with global companies.
One purchase away from a consistent innovation method.
Download it as soon as you pay and take a real problem through it this week. The Quick Start Guide shows where to begin, the worked case shows what good looks like, and every file is yours to brand, adapt and keep.
One price for your whole organisation: every team, every workshop, no per-seat fees.
The complete corporate innovation toolkit: problem framing, ideation, idea assessment, product framing, experiment design and workshop canvases, with a worked case that shows every template filled in. Customise with your branding and distribute across your entire organisation.
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The methodology behind the templates. Every template in this toolkit maps to the frameworks in Innovation Mode, the complete practitioner’s guide to building AI-powered innovation functions. The book provides the why and the when; the toolkit provides the how.
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Tailored to your industry and your process
Combine the toolkit with our Corporate Innovation Advisory programme, and we adapt it to the way your organisation works.
Part of a larger system
The templates get you started. The book gives you the complete framework. The advisory programmes deploy it in your organisation, and Ainna runs it with you.
Product Toolkit 1.0
PRD deck and document templates that pick up where this toolkit's go decision ends, on the same worked case.
Innovation Mode
The complete framework: 70+ interventions, the 6 Innovation Deficits and the 7-level Maturity Index.
Two 8-week programmes
Deploying these frameworks in your organisation, for innovation transformation or AI strategy.
Ainna.ai
The agentic innovation platform that runs these frameworks in production. The toolkit’s AI prompt kit works with it too.
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