A guide to managing innovation, from generating ideas to selecting projects and developing new products, markets, or business models. It covers Design Thinking, Stage-Gate, innovation portfolios, open innovation, and intellectual property strategy.

Use it to run ideation sessions, manage research and development portfolios, assess innovation projects, and plan intellectual property strategy.

It helps teams organise uncertain ideas into a process for evaluation, development, and investment.

innovation — Skill for Claude Code by travisjneuman/.claude

Install

Getting it into your agent

One page per mod, every tool's command on it. A separate URL per tool would split the same page into five that compete with each other.

Any agent

npx skills add travisjneuman/.claude --skill innovation

Clone the repo

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/travisjneuman/.claude

Made for: Claude Code.

Or install tjn-business, the plugin that ships this one along with the rest of its 23 skills.

Wrote this? Show the measurements

A badge with what this costs and how it scanned, read live from this page, so it follows the numbers instead of freezing them. Markdown for a README, HTML for a documentation site or a project page.

README.md

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Per session 49 Skills are progressive disclosure: only the name and description are preloaded; the body loads when the skill is used.

When invoked 2,528 The whole file, excluding the scripts and references it only reads on demand.

Security scan A 0 findings. A grade says what 26 rules found in the file — not that it is safe. Third-party audits

NVIDIA SkillSpector pass 7 Sept 2026

How audits are shown

Origin original No closer match found in the catalogue.

Token cost

What it costs to keep this loaded

Counted locally with the o200k_base tokenizer, which is exact for GPT models; Claude uses its own tokenizer and its counts differ. Treat this as one consistent yardstick across the catalogue rather than a bill. Prices are per million input tokens.

Model	Per session	Once invoked
Fable 5.1	$0.00049	$0.02528
Opus 5.5	$0.00020	$0.01011
Sonnet 5.5	$0.00010	$0.00506
Haiku 4.5	$0.00005	$0.00253

Measured 2mo ago against content hash 7f8a66a089da, method: parsed. Prices are Anthropic first-party input rates as of 2026-10-07, from the pricing page.

Security

Grade A, and why

innovation scanned grade A with 0 findings against 26 rules in 11 categories — prompt injection, anti-refusal, data exfiltration, privilege escalation, supply chain, agent snooping, system-prompt leakage, SSRF and excessive agency — measured 2mo ago.

A static scan of the body, not an audit. Every finding is printed with the line that produced it so you can judge whether it matters here. A mod is markdown that instructs an agent; that is exactly why what it instructs is worth reading.

Nothing flagged

None of the 26 patterns this scan looks for appear in this file: no shell pipes, no recursive deletes, no credential paths, no hidden text, no instruction-override or anti-refusal phrasing, no agent-config snooping. That is not a guarantee, it is the absence of the things that are checkable.

skills/innovation/SKILL.md · 484 lines

How it starts

The opening of the file, as written. The whole thing — 484 lines — stays where its author put it; the contents beside it link to each section on GitHub.

Innovation Expert

Comprehensive innovation frameworks for ideation, portfolio management, and innovation strategy.

Innovation Strategy

Innovation Horizons

THREE HORIZONS MODEL:

HORIZON 1 - CORE (70% of resources):
- Extend and defend core business
- Incremental improvements
- Process optimization
- Timeline: 0-2 years
- Risk: Low
- Returns: Known

HORIZON 2 - ADJACENT (20% of resources):
- Extend into new markets/products
- New capabilities
- Business model evolution
- Timeline: 2-5 years
- Risk: Medium
- Returns: Emerging

HORIZON 3 - TRANSFORMATIONAL (10% of resources):
- Create new businesses
- Disruptive innovation
- Emerging technologies
- Timeline: 5-10+ years
- Risk: High
- Returns: Uncertain

Innovation Types

Type	Description	Example
Incremental	Improvements to existing	Product upgrades
Adjacent	New to company	New market entry
Disruptive	New to industry	Business model innovation
Radical	New to world	Breakthrough technology

Innovation Portfolio

PORTFOLIO BALANCE:

BY TYPE:
- Core: 50-70%
- Adjacent: 20-30%
- Transformational: 10-20%

BY STAGE:
- Discovery: 40%
- Incubation: 30%
- Acceleration: 20%
- Scale: 10%

BY TIME HORIZON:
- Short-term (0-2 yr): 60%
- Medium-term (2-5 yr): 30%
- Long-term (5+ yr): 10%

PORTFOLIO METRICS:
- Pipeline value
- Stage conversion rates
- Time to market
- ROI by initiative

Innovation Processes

Design Thinking

DESIGN THINKING PHASES:

1. EMPATHIZE
- User research
- Observation
- Interviews
- Journey mapping
- Persona development

2. DEFINE
- Problem framing
- Point of view statement
- How might we questions
- Design principles

3. IDEATE
- Brainstorming
- Mind mapping
- Analogies
- Crazy 8s
- Concept selection

4. PROTOTYPE
- Low-fidelity mockups
- Paper prototypes
- Clickable wireframes
- Minimum viable product

5. TEST
- User testing
- Feedback collection
- Iteration
- Validation

Read the full file on GitHub · 484 lines

Files

What ships with it

4 files beside SKILL.md in the same directory: the scripts, references and assets a skill reads on demand. Not counted in the per-session cost; read them before you install if any of them is executable.

Changes

What this file has done since we first saw it

Hashed on every crawl. A supply-chain change to an agent config is a question of when, not whether, so the history is kept rather than the latest state alone.

2mo ago First seen · 484 lines · 49 tokens per session scan A 7f8a66a089da

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innovation is a skill published in the GitHub repository travisjneuman/.claude (108 stars, last pushed yesterday), licensed MIT. It adds 49 tokens to every session and 2,528 once invoked, about $0.0002 per session on Opus 5.5. A static security scan graded it A with 0 findings. No closer match exists in the catalogue, so it is treated as the original; first seen 2026-09-03.

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