Explore the Strategy Tools
Strategy Tools covers a wide variety of uses, from helping you explore new business models,
grow a startup, to forming your own Supercluster. Find one that fits your needs below, or check out our series.
Strategy Tools Series
- Strategy & Transformation
- Innovation
- Business Model
- Customer Development
- Startup
- Supercluster
- Implementation
Strategy Intro
The number one strategy tool for companies of any size. The Strategy intro is the perfect starting point for any strategy process – for startups, scale-ups and corporates.
Strategic Innovation Canvas
The Strategic Innovation Canvas gives you and your team the ability to think beyond today in terms of managing your innovation, strategy or business model portfolio.
Transformation Architecture
The Transformation Architecture helps your company build the right architecture for a transformation and prepare for it, as well as assess the company’s capability to lead this change.
Two Lenses on Strategy
The Two Lenses helps to handle different world views on strategy. It helps to balance out the dominant views of strategy as classical strategic thinking.
The Transformation Test
Often used as a conversation tool by companies – the Transformation Test helps to measure how ready your company is for transformation. It answers important questions on whether your transformation will be successful and whether you have the right capabilities and processes in place.
Transformation Assessment
The Transformation Assessment is a quick and easy transformation survey that gives a direct intro to the Magic Formula of Money, Structure, and Mandate (M+S+M).
Industry Shifts Map
Use the Industry Shifts Map to understand how your world is changing. Most companies have a limited interest in what happens outside of their company / industry. This tool helps you make sense of what’s happening and how it could affect your company’s trajectory.
Industry Map
Do we actually understand how the landscape around us is changing? Do we have a shared view, a shared understanding in our company or management team of the ongoing changes in our industry? Are we able to think both short term and long term? The Industry Map helps answer these questions.
Corporate Venture Capital Canvas
The Corporavate Venture Capital Canvas (CVC Canvas) helps you build a strategy for a Corporate Venture Capital program by identifying the key items for a successful CVC.
Corporate Venture Capital Matchmaker
The CVC Matchmaker helps you assess if a startup is a right investment for your company, and also if you were the right investor for the startup. It helps you figure out whether you are a good financial, strategic and cultural fit.
Corporate Venture Capital Deal Map
Use the CVC Deal Map to map out a CVC deal, align interests and create a shared roadmap to success in CVC deals. Used correctly, this tool will help you answer the question, “is this a good deal for our CVC?”
Market Opportunity Canvas
Built on the work by Rowan Gibson and his book the Four Lenses on Innovation, the Market Opportunity Canvas helps identify new markets, come up with new market ideas and brainstorm around new market opportunities.
Innovation Strategy
We call this the “one-page innovation strategy”. The tool helps you create a more holistic innovation strategy and think and work more strategically about your innovations.
Minimum Innovation Strategy Canvas
This is a more advanced version of Innovation Strategy, built on Cisco’s famous 5-point strategy – buy, build, partner, invest, develop. The MIS Canvas helps companies move away from innovation efforts that are too internally focused, and allows you to build a one-page, easy-to-understand, high-level innovation strategy.
The Innovation Pyramid
Our most popular ideation tool used by teams to create a shared understanding and language around innovation. The Innovation Pyramid is a great brainstorming tool which can be used alone or in teams.
A Holistic View on Innovation
The Holistic View is a great tool for mapping and evaluating your organizational innovation level. It gives you a clear metric to act on. More importantly, it is a great for conversations on how to build innovation capabilities.
Three Levels of Business Models
This tool allows you to build your business model portfolio in one page. Using the tool allows you and your team to shift from focus on only one business model to many.
Customer Personas Cards
How well do you understand your end customers? This tool helps you answer that question. By understanding your customer needs, and getting this communicated across to the engineering teams – you can achieve a better product-market fit.
Scale-Up Map
The Scale-Up Map enables you to map out your growth strategy in a single view. It helps startups to look beyond the now and build a short-, medium- and long-term growth strategy. On a single page, you will be able to map out and keep track of the key value drivers for your startup, and align your team, board, and investors around your scale-up plan.
The Long-Term Funding Roadmap
As its name suggests, the Long-Term Funding Roadmap helps you develop a long-term capital strategy for your startup. It’ll walk you through the different categories of investors and help you identify ways in which you can secure long-term growth capital.
Your Funding Plan
Your Funding Plan is a great companion to the Long-Term Funding Roadmap as it helps break it down into a short-term action funding plan. It helps you close your funding round faster and smarter, as well as segment your (many) investor prospects.
5X Company Building Canvas
As a leader of a startup, it is often hard to get everyone aligned in a quick and visual way on how to build the company. The 5X Company Building Canvas solves this problem. It provides a shared understanding of the startup’s growth issues and helps identify what key areas you should focus on. It is also a great way of reporting your weekly progress to the team and the board.
The Investor Map
This is your investor segmentation tool that helps you segment your invsetor prospects and select the right investor for you based on financial and strategic fit.
The Accelerator Map
With thousands of incubators, accelerators, and support programs out there, it can be hard to identify if they are a right fit for your startup. The Accelerator Map helps you to evaluate different accelerator programs according to strategic fit and value output.
Building Blocks for Superclusters
This tool gives you an overview of what pieces make a supercluster successful, and what key success factors you need to enable.
Supercluster Fundamentals
Supercluster Fundamentals is a high-impact tool for large scale group sessions. It helps you identify what members of a supercluster would want out of it, as well as what companies are hoping to get out of their time and investment in a supercluster. This helps you map out the fundamental tasks a supercluster needs to focus on in order to succeed.
Supercluster Strategy Map
Built on the research by MIT, Harvard, and BI Norwegian Business School, the Supercluster Strategy Map details the five fundamental pillars of building a supercluster – corporate, government, academics, capital, and entrepreneur. It helps you map out a supercluster strategy and how you can involve, engage and activate all stakeholders in a supercluster development project.
Three Types of Clusters
The Three Types of Clusters help you better understand the different kinds of clusters and easily explain it to others.
Supercluster Capital Strategy Map
This tool helps you build you end-to-end supercluster strategy, map out your cluster investor landscape and think strategically about capital into your cluster. There is also a software solution, now live on our App.
Supercluster: Launch
This tool is used to engage key stakeholders in the very first, early strategic conversations on launching a supercluster. The Supercluster: Launch tool helps clarify expectations and ambitions within your emergin cluster project.
Supercluster: Intro
This is a tool used in the very first cluster conversations, which provides an understanding of clutsers beyond the Triple Helix theory.
Cluster Member Map
Map out your cluster members to get a better overview and deeper insights into their growth stages and their capital needs. The Cluster Member Map gives you an idea of how well you know and understand your cluster members.
Supercluster Capital Strategy
Identify the key pieces required for a cluster capital strategy and develop a full-scale capital strategy for your cluster using the Supercluster Capital Strategy.
Supercluster Strategy
Create a cluster strategy in a single, easy-to-understand framework to foster understanding and alignment around your supercluster strategy.
Cluster Startup Portfolio
This tool enables you to build a startup portfolio, like a dealflow, for your cluster. Use it to map out and further develop your startups and scale-ups, so you can better take care of them and connect them to your corporates.
Cluster Accelerator Map
The Cluster Accelerator Map helps you develop a smart accelerator and scale-up support system, map out the most relevant accelerators for your cluster, and help you as a cluster CEO understand and work with different accelerators.
Action Road Map
The Action Road Map helps get you from strategy to action. It sets a timeline, accountability, and helps create better buy-in from the team.
Strategy Alignment
When the management team has different views on strategy and implementation, this tool helps get the whole team on the same page.