Project and innovation portfolio management

Canvases and templates

Guide discovery, validation, and documentation with structured canvases.

Canvases and templates provide teams with structured frameworks to explore ideas, validate assumptions, and document initiatives consistently. By guiding teams through proven innovation methods, organizations improve collaboration, reduce ambiguity, and ensure initiatives are evaluated with the same logic across the portfolio.

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Why canvases and templates matter

Innovation work often fails because ideas are explored inconsistently and key questions remain unanswered. Canvases and templates provide structured frameworks that guide teams through discovery, validation, and documentation with clarity and consistency.

Without structured canvases and templates

Ideas are explored without a consistent methodology
Important assumptions remain undocumented
Teams interpret innovation frameworks differently
Decisions rely on incomplete or inconsistent information

With canvases and templates

Structured frameworks guide discovery and validation
Ideas are documented consistently across teams
Assumptions, insights, and evidence are captured clearly
Leaders can evaluate initiatives with comparable information

Canvases and templates create structure and shared understanding, helping teams explore opportunities more rigorously and make better innovation decisions.

What you get

Canvases and templates provide structured frameworks that guide teams through discovery, validation, and documentation. They help teams explore opportunities systematically and ensure initiatives are captured consistently across the organization.

Structured canvases for idea exploration and validation
Standardized templates for documenting initiatives
Guided frameworks based on proven innovation methods
Consistent documentation across projects and teams
Clear overview of assumptions, insights, and evidence
Improved collaboration during discovery and validation
Better comparability of initiatives for decision making

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Who it’s for

Primarily designed for innovation teams responsible for structure, decisions, and measurable progress. Secondarily for organizational stakeholders who guide strategy, allocate resources, and evaluate results.

Innovation Managers

Own the innovation process and require full visibility across funnels, governance, decisions, and portfolio impact.

Innovation Leaders

Align innovation with strategy and need clear portfolio steering based on value, risk, and evidence.

Innovation Specialists

Execute initiatives and need structured workflows for intake, validation, evaluation, and next-step clarity.

Strategy & Transformation Teams

Ensure innovation supports strategic priorities and require transparency into progress and expected outcomes.

Portfolio, PMO & Governance

Oversee decision frameworks and resource allocation, requiring structured criteria and stage visibility.

Business & Product Leaders

Make implementation decisions and need clarity on ownership, business cases, risks, and expected impact.

AI enhances canvases and templates

AI transforms canvases from static documentation tools into intelligent discovery frameworks. Teams receive suggestions, insights, and structured guidance that help them explore ideas faster and capture stronger evidence.

AI Capabilities

Automatic suggestions for problem and solution framing
AI generated summaries of canvas insights
Assumption detection and validation prompts
Idea expansion and opportunity exploration
Smart guidance through innovation frameworks
Automatic documentation of discovery insights
Pattern detection across multiple initiatives
Support for faster canvas completion

Impact

Faster exploration of ideas and opportunities
Higher quality documentation and insights
More structured discovery and validation
Better alignment across teams using the same frameworks
Stronger evidence for decision making
Reduced time spent documenting innovation work

AI makes canvases and templates more powerful by guiding teams through discovery, capturing insights automatically, and improving the quality of innovation documentation.

Key features for canvases and templates

Innovation canvases

Structure discovery and idea exploration

Innovation canvases guide teams through structured frameworks to explore problems, solutions, and opportunities. They help teams capture insights and assumptions in a consistent and visual way.

Use proven innovation frameworks such as business model or validation canvases
Capture problems, solutions, and value propositions in one place
Document assumptions and supporting evidence
Create a shared understanding across teams

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Standardized templates

Document initiatives consistently

Templates ensure that initiatives are documented in the same structured way across teams. This improves clarity, comparability, and decision making across the portfolio.

Use standardized templates for initiatives and projects
Ensure consistent documentation across teams
Capture key insights and decisions in one structure
Improve comparability across initiatives

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Scoring and selection to evaluate and prioritize ideas

Collaborative documentation

Work together on structured innovation frameworks

Teams can collaborate on canvases and templates to build shared understanding and refine ideas together.

Collaborate on canvases with multiple contributors
Capture feedback and insights from stakeholders
Maintain a shared workspace for innovation documentation
Keep documentation aligned across teams

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Governance and handover from ideas to initiatives

Decision ready insights

Turn exploration into actionable insights

Canvases and templates help teams translate discovery work into clear insights that support evaluation and decision making.

Summarize insights and key learnings
Capture validated assumptions and evidence
Prepare initiatives for evaluation and prioritization
Support structured decision making across portfolios

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AI powered innovation support and insights

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Product Tour: Project and Innovation Portfolio Management

Explore how organizations structure project funnels, track execution, and gain visibility with dashboards and reporting across projects and portfolios.

Project funnels

Structure initiatives into clear portfolio funnels with defined stages, approval gates, and visibility into progress and performance.

Dashboards and reporting

Gain real-time visibility into initiatives and portfolios with dashboards and reports that show progress, performance, and key metrics.

Task and workload tracking

Track tasks, ownership, and team capacity to balance workloads, remove bottlenecks, and deliver work predictably across initiatives.

Explore the full Project and Innovation Portfolio Management tour

See how project funnels, dashboards and reporting, and task tracking connect in one governed system for managing projects and innovation at scale.

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Run your innovations with structure and transparency. In a short demo, see how idea management, project portfolio management, and idea collecting connect to funnels, scorecards, and dashboards so progress stays visible and decisions get easier.