14 How to Master Innovation Models
Fourteen innovation frameworks, each taught end to end — with the worked models to run them.
Innovation is the discipline of turning new ideas into value on purpose, not by luck. This handbook teaches all fourteen frameworks in the Innovation category — one chapter each — from the types of innovation that reshape markets, through the design-thinking, lean-startup and MVP methods that develop them, to the funnels, stage-gates and adoption curves that carry them to scale. From Disruptive Innovation and Design Thinking to the Stage-Gate process, Open Innovation and TRIZ.
What you get
The complete PDF handbook plus fourteen worked Excel models — one for every framework in the book. Blue input cells you change, formula cells that respond, and a Read-me tab on each, so you can run the numbers on your own assumptions.
How every chapter is built
Read one and you can build any. Each framework follows the same thirteen-section rhythm: the question it answers, what it is, who uses it, its anatomy, inputs and outputs, how to build it step by step, a worked example, strengths, limits and pitfalls, industry notes, how it connects to the other frameworks, modern relevance, using AI on it, and a practitioner’s checklist.
The fourteen frameworks
Disruptive Innovation, Sustaining Innovation, Incremental Innovation, Radical Innovation, Design Thinking, the Lean Startup, the Minimum Viable Product, the Innovation Funnel, the Stage-Gate process, Diffusion of Innovation, the Technology Adoption Lifecycle, the Ambidextrous Organisation, Open Innovation and TRIZ.
The learning path
The chapters are ordered as a single connected build, not an alphabetical list — from the types of innovation, through the methods that develop new ideas, to the funnels and adoption curves that carry them to scale.
Who it’s for
Innovation and R&D leaders, product managers, founders and strategists who must generate new ideas and turn them into products the market adopts.
How to use it
Work straight through to master the category, or jump to a single framework when you need it for live work.
Book 14 of the Business Framework Library, part of The Investment Banking Practitioner’s Handbook Series. Master this category on its own, or reach for the Business Framework Compendium when you want the one-page reference to all 467 frameworks.
By John Colley — Cambridge University MA · MBA with Distinction, Bayes Business School · 30+ years in investment banking, M&A and private equity.