Innovation Toolkit

Run and Scale Innovation in Your Organization

The Innovation Toolkit offers free resources to help organizations practice innovation on a daily basis. Whether you are just starting an innovation project or want to install a culture of innovation at your company, these methods and learning material will guide you through your innovation journey.

The SAP Business AI Workshops

Explore AI Workshops

Explore how SAP Business AI can elevate your business

The AI-themed toolkit is to guide you through the different stages of exploring AI opportunities to the implementation of ideas.

Innovation Toolkit for AI

Human-Centered Approach to Innovation

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Making Innovation Real

The Getting-Started Paths

A Path is a step-by-step guide to help you work with Human-Centered methods on your project. Choose a recommended path that is tailored to your needs.

Explore the Basic Path

Start with the essential methods

Leverage essential Human-Centered Innovation methods to focus on the end-user’s needs and build solutions that solve real pain points. (Estimated time to complete: 3 days)

Explore the Express Path

Experience the mini version of the Human-Centered Approach to Innovation

Take the fast route through the entire Human-Centered Approach to Innovation with the Express Path. (Estimated time to complete: 5 to 10 days)

Making innovation real requires a structured, human-centered approach that supports the entire innovation lifecycle: from the generation of novel business ideas to the development and delivery of high value solutions. SAP’s Human-Centered Approach to Innovation is composed of five iterative phases to support every stage of your project.

The End-to-End Advanced Kit

Find methods for each phase of the process

Explore

Identify the most valuable use cases for your business area together with department leads from business and IT.

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Discover

Gain a deep understanding about the challenges to solve through observation, interviews and market research.

Open Discover Path

Design

Identify the most valuable solution ideas through iterative prototyping and identify the Enterprise Architecture components.

Open Design Path

Deliver

Develop the solution architecture and deliver value for your end users by leveraging SAP Business Technology Platform.

Open Deliver Path

“The AppHaus methodology gives us a structured, human-centred way to bring clarity to complex problems. It helps our customers see what’s possible and moves them from ideas to outcomes with confidence. The Innovation Toolkit is a core part of this. It gives our teams the resources to accelerate discovery, frame opportunity, and guide customers through decisions that shape a better experience end-to-end.”

– Chris Rae, Founder & Chief Architect of DalRae Solutions, an attura company – SAP AppHaus Network Partner and SAP Gold Partner

Foster the Innovation Culture

Choose a set of methods that are tailored to your needs.

Making innovation sustainable in an organization requires a change of mindset catalyzed by its employees and leaders, an environment of collaboration and empowerment, and a process that seeks to generate value by identifying real business and human challenges.
Therefore, we designed a framework to support the creation of an Innovation Culture that considers five interconnected enablers: People, Process, Place, supported by Leadership, and Technology.

People

Build the right mix of skills, mindsets, and competencies for design-led innovation.

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Process

Adopt a human-centered process and approach to catalyze organizational change and drive business value.

Open Process Tools

Place

Create an environment that encourages collaboration and allows innovation practices to flourish.

Open Place Tools

Leadership

Help leaders develop a human-centric mindset to empower their employees and nurture practices for innovation.

Open Leadership Tools

Technology

Leverage SAP Business Technology Platform to quickly implement ideas, as well as run and scale them.

Open Technology Tools

Featured Methods

Scenes

A tool to create visual stories about product and service ideas fast, collaboratively and iteratively, no drawing skills required.

Business AI Explore Workshop

Curious about how AI can benefit your business and drive innovation? This collaborative method is designed to help you identify AI use cases with real business impact, tailored to address your current challenges.

AI Agent Design Workshop

Are you looking to automate tasks that go beyond the repetitive—tasks that require adaptability, learning, and decision-making? Our upcoming hands-on experience will guide you in designing AI agents that work for you.

Joule Agent Discovery Workshop

Want to streamline an activity or process and wonder if an AI agent can help? This workshop helps your team explore what agents can do and identify agentic use cases that improve productivity and efficiency.

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