Define Success Before You Start

Clarify your goals and success criteria upfront, setting a clear benchmark for your innovation efforts.

Benchmark and Document Assumptions

Use HYPE Boards to articulate and track key assumptions. Map out how each one will be tested and validated.

Hypothesis-Driven Validation

Organize and track your ideas through a systematic hypothesis-testing process. Iterate and refine ideas based on real-world results.

Milestones for Learning

Establish key checkpoints where you pause, reflect, and determine whether assumptions are still valid, helping you pivot or proceed with confidence.

Plan to Learn, Not to Fail

In highly uncertain situations, standard methods fall short. Whether you’re venturing into new markets or developing groundbreaking ideas, discovery-driven planning helps you plan to learn at the lowest cost possible. By systematically turning assumptions into validated knowledge, you can make informed decisions and avoid investing in ideas that may not succeed.

HYPE Boards supports your journey by providing the tools to manage uncertainty, prioritize key insights, and pivot with agility—all while keeping costs and risks under control.

DEVELOPMENT

Model your own process
As every organization is unique, so are the internal challenges. That's why you need a tool like HYPE Boards, where flexibly allows you to adjust varying processes and timelines.

Engage the right people
HYPE Boards helps you dig deeper. Discover problems, prioritize them, and collaboratively develop solutions. With HYPE Boards you can facilitate a problem discovery workshop or session without needing to bring in additional external tools.

Responsibility → Progress
Shared responsibility often means no responsibility. Encourage people to describe any problems, bottlenecks, or pain points related to the chosen categories. Cluster and categorise ideas and group them using tags, labels, or columns to create visual categories. Setup a prioritization mechanism through the evaluation feature.  

How others use HYPE Boards

At Nihon L’Oréal, HYPE Boards was instrumental in leveraging the expertise of researchers to tackle problems. It enhanced communication between employees and management, fostered a culture of innovation, and improved internal processes.

By facilitating efficient meetings and allowing for ideas to be tested and refined before production, HYPE Boards supported L’Oréal’s approach to discovery-driven innovation, helping them better align with strategic goals and drive new developments.