No matter who you are or how big you hope to grow your business, figuring out what product to build and what services to offer is a huge challenge. Starting a business takes a huge leap of faith. Given that you could be doing many, many things with your time, how do you decide what to do and what’s really a great idea? This Initiative template will help you do just that.

You’ve validated your startup idea but how do you turn an exciting idea into a functional, thriving business? Follow this step-by-step guide to launch your startup and keep it running strong. This template will also help you make strong connections and find supporters who can help you navigate the wild startup world.

Every company wants to release the best possible product, as smoothly as they can, but understanding what the leanest possible solution that will deliver the most value can be a daunting task. This template will help your company execute effective pre-launch, launch, and post-launch efforts of any new product MVP.

Done effectively, release management planning increases the number of successful releases and reduces quality problems. Productivity, communication, and coordination are improved, and the organization can deliver software faster. For major releases we suggest taking a step back and approaching the new release as a ‘mini-product’ in of itself.

This Initiative template first guides teams to construct an initial release plan which is understood to be rough. It must be detailed enough only to get things started, by predicting that the Initiative will deliver enough return on investment to more than pay for it. The template then helps teams use agile by creating smaller release plans at the start of each iteration.

Developing a clear innovation strategy for your organization is critical to driving sustained and successful innovation. An innovation strategy creates alignment on innovation efforts across different teams and functions, any number of whom might otherwise perceive innovation goals differently. This Initiative template will help you create a clear innovation strategy for your organization.

Incubation enables companies to create strategic innovations, but the best incubation approaches have been designed for startups. This template applies those same approaches, in a corporate context, to allow companies to execute on opportunities that stretch strategic boundaries, providing room to experiment in a non-deterministic, non-linear way.

A hackathon is a competitive event in which teams of designers, developers, and subject matter experts collaborate to create solutions for a specific problem within a defined time frame. Our online hackathon template enables companies to engage their employees simultaneously across different geographies to solve a problem or drive innovation.