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.

Run Innovation Projects from Beginning to End

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.

Explore Opportunities

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

See Explore Methods

Discover Challenges

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

See Discover Methods

Design Innovations

Identify the most valuable solution ideas, make them tangible through prototypes and identify the Enterprise Architecture components.

See Design Methods

Deliver Solutions

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

See Deliver Methods

Run & Scale Solutions

Run and deploy your solution across your company.

Shape a Culture of Innovation

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.

See People Tools

Process

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

See Process Tools

Place

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

See Place Tools

Leadership

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

See Leadership Tools

Technology

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

See Technology Tools

Featured Resources

The Next Way of Working

As the world slowly reopens after Covid-19, we reimagined hybrid work for an innovation team. This white paper tackles the challenge: How might we design a hybrid way of working so that we can innovate effectively?

Flex Team Workshop

A Design Thinking Workshop to Reimagine Hybrid Work

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.

Award-winning Tools to Innovate

The Innovation Toolkit received the German Innovation Gold award in the category of “Excellence in B2B Office Solutions” and a German Innovation Winner award in the category “Design Thinking”.

“The Innovation Culture Toolkit is a one-of-a kind collection of proven methods and tools for companies who want to establish a culture of innovation.”
– Lutz Dietzold, Managing Director, German Design Council

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