Effective tools -
for even more ideas.

As in any skilled trade, people who want to innovate successfully need the right tools at hand. Here you will find all the innovation and creativity tools we have developed to support you at various steps in your innovation process. Whether you need creativity for an ideation, want to record important KPIs of your innovation projects or need to organize the innovation management of your company, our tools will support you in every step of your innovation and transformation work.

The right tool for any obstacle

Over the years, we have encountered a variety of obstacles that have been reflected in many different projects. From this experience, we have developed a number of our own tools that can help overcome these obstacles.

Inspiration, brainstorming, breaking thought patterns

rategic orientation, uncovering potential

Visual innovation knowledge

Digital collaboration

Nasty problems, visible ideas

Measurable innovation work, organization, structure

Bundling innovation knowledge, inspiration

verrocchio Card Sets

When it comes to finding ideas, many people are stuck in rigid thought patterns or simply have a blockage. There is often a lack of external stimuli. This is exactly where our card sets work wonders. Used in a workshop or in a team, the cards provide the necessary inspiration to come up with new ideas or enrich existing ones.

We have developed individual card sets to suit the most common topics in the context of innovation.

You receive each card set in our practical workshop box and a digital version for download. This means you always have your card set to hand, no matter what you have in mind.

Our card sets are designed for ideation. They help you find new ideas faster and enhance existing ideas.

Impulse pictures are used to leave familiar ways of thinking and explore new ones. The images help you to recognize new perspectives and stimulate lateral thinking.

The Food Inspiration Cards are inspired by the food industry and provide even more inspiration in your ideation. Let your workshops become even more exciting.

Sustainable Inspiration Cards are inspired by the Sustainable Development Goals for more sustainable ideation. Think more ecologically and socially.

The SDG Card Set helps to successfully address the topic of sustainability. The 3 included card sets help to transfer knowledge, inspire and generate sustainable ideas.

The Mindset Cards help you to gain new perspectives with exciting impulses and thus reflect on your own attitude.
The NOWmoments Cards help to maintain focus and recognize frictional losses.

Uncovering potential

For teams that do not know exactly where to start with innovation and ideation, it is advisable to search for possible innovation potential fields. These two tools can support you in this process.

Innovationdigging helps to find innovation search fields in a reliable and structured way and supports you in developing new products, services, processes, market and business areas as well as optimizing customer contact and satisfaction.

The Minesweeper Framework supports you in the strategic innovation alignment of your company. Find relevant innovation fields and prioritize them to identify innovation threats at an early stage.

Innovation knowledge visualized

1 picture says more than 1000 words. We like to make use of this effect.

Our info frescoes are hand-drawn, large-format infographics that are used in workshops or companies to give a quick and efficient overview of topics.

Demonstrates the key vocabulary for making sustainable innovation a reality in organizations, and gives an overview of how to connect innovation and business success with sustainability.

Provides an overview of all known and relevant subtopics on the large term “innovation”. With over 250 important technical terms and know-how on these.

Digital methods for online collaboration

Since the coronavirus pandemic at the latest, digital collaboration has become very important. However, digital collaboration involves a number of obstacles and risks.

To make digital collaboration in innovation teams easier and smoother, we have digitized many of our methods. You can find our digital templates and our knowledge and methods database here.

The Digital Template Set is suitable for method work in virtual workshops and includes 26 different method templates. Available for miro, mural or conceptboard

The Innovation.Wiki is our online toolbox for all innovation and transformation projects. With over 1000 collected methods, articles with innovation knowledge and book reviews, it is the perfect place to access the collected verrocchio knowledge.

The Navigator newsfeed contains our verrocchio innovation knowledge and experience in the form of free e-mails. Receive new knowledge, impulses and inspiration for your own innovation work every 14 days.

verrocchio original methods

In addition to our card sets, we have developed other methods and tools to support and drive your innovation work. Get to know our verrocchio original methods.

The Problem Tackler helps you turn problems that you can’t make sense of or that have an emotional blockage into attractive challenges.

The Ideas Sed Card helps you to convince others of your idea. It helps especially in the phases of idea enrichment and early prototyping. It also contributes to the development of an innovation culture.

Measure innovation work, organize and manage

The Innovation Management Canvas helps you model your innovation management without overlooking relevant success factors.

The Road Runner Framework helps you to quickly build effective and target-oriented roadmaps and to adjust them in an agile and dynamic way.

With the Project Value Radar, you can measure the chances of success and maturity levels of innovation projects and identify fields of action that increase success.

Efficiently, visually and purposefully measure the current innovation capability of teams, departments or entire companies and record your development steps.

Innovation knowledge to go

This is the German version of the book “The Innovator’s Dictionary”. It provides a comprehensive overview of 555 current innovation methods and innovation tools. The methods can be filtered quickly and easily based on various characteristics.

The Innovator’s Dictionary is the English translation of our book “Das große Handbuch Innovation” and therefore suitable for use in international teams, workshops and projects.

The book is currently only available in German. It provides you with a comprehensive overview of 222 current transformation methods and tools. The book helps you select the right methods for your next workshop.

Our book helps you to find an imaginative work-innovation balance. On 164 pages full of inspirational impulses, you will discover more fun, imagination and inspiration.

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Hi, I am Christina and I will support you at any time, individually, to find the best form of cooperation.

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