Product Innovation Labyrinth (PIL)
Product Innovation Labyrinth (PIL)
House of Boards launches a powerful new formula within the Special Board Forces program: “Product Innovation Labyrinth (PIL)“.
Product Innovation Labyrinth (PIL)
Innovation is not a straight line, but a labyrinth of ideas, choices, obstacles, and insights. With the Product Innovation Labyrinth (PIL), we guide companies through their entire innovation and product development process — from initial idea to successful launch.
Based on insights from our innovation brainstorming with experts and key personnel of the client, and fully aligned with House of Boards’ methodology and approach, PIL offers a structured, visual, and human-centered framework to accelerate, objectify, and anchor innovation.
For whom?
- Companies that want to develop a new product or service
- Organizations that want to optimize or rethink existing solutions
- Teams that want to structure and accelerate innovation
- Companies that want to anchor release discipline and customer validation
- Teams (Research, Innovation & Development) seeking new inspiration, who are at risk of getting stuck in habits, avoiding risks, and consequently falling back on existing solutions.
Product Innovation Labyrinth (PIL)
What can you expect from our PIL formula?
- 360° Inventory — mapping infrastructure, knowledge, skills, and culture
- PIP-framework (Product Innovation Propeller) — clear phasing and checkpoints
- ABC principle — Approval for & By Customer: customer input as the engine of development
- Avoiding overdimensioned development — preventing more features than necessary or strategically sensible; avoids unnecessary costs and longer development time without competitive advantage
- Developing with maximum value creation — designing and developing with a focus on maximum value for both customer and company, with attention to efficient production processes, scalability, and achieving maximum contribution margin, developing for each phase or link in the lifecycle of a product, human-centered approach.
- Proof of Concept (PoC) — tangible evidence of feasibility and functionality
- Release strategy with generations — phased rollout to ensure certainty of results
- Measured deployment of the supporting team
The supporting HoB team guides and strengthens the client’s existing key personnel in a measured way and are maximally involved and deployed. - Combination with Internationalization
PIL is often applied in conjunction with the Internationalization formula when new markets require new product and service innovation. - Monthly formula without overhead — flexibility, budget control, no fixed obligations
Why choose PIL?
Holistic & objectifying approach
Technology, processes, and people — all elements are considered 360°, objectified, and aligned.
The power of the House of Boards network
Where necessary, the House of Boards network is engaged as an extension and additional sounding board, both internally (to strengthen the project team) and externally (towards end customers or stakeholders).
Thanks to this multidisciplinary network — consisting of experienced entrepreneurs, C-levels, investors, and experts — every step in the innovation and development process can be tested against practical experience, strategic insight, and market validation. This ensures that the innovation is not only technically and organizationally substantiated, but also sustainably supported and strategically relevant anchored.
Developing with maximum value creation — focusing on maximum value, with attention to efficient production processes, scalability, and achieving maximum contribution margin.
Flexibly deployable
For physical products and services — both incremental and disruptive.
Visual clarity
The labyrinth and propeller make innovation comprehensible and manageable.
Customer as compass
ABC principle ensures structural, rhythmic customer validation throughout development.
Rapid validation
Proof of Concept prevents waste and brings focus.
Cost efficiency
External experts are deployed in a measured way, and existing key personnel are maximally involved and activated.
Subsidies
Where relevant, we also identify, guide, and assist in obtaining available subsidies and support programs.
No fixed overhead
Monthly formula, flexible entry and exit, team remains owner.
What Do We Deliver?
- Kick-off & assignment brief with CEO / Board of Directors / Advisory Board
- PIL visuals (labyrinth + propeller)
- 360° inventory & stakeholder analysis
- Discovery report & customer validations (ABC interviews)
- Proof of Concept dossier
- Roadmap with generations & resource planning
- Monthly progress & decision moments
Ready to Accelerate your Product Innovation?
Innovation requires structure, creativity, objectification, focus, and rhythm. “Out of the box thinking” without limitations, bringing a fresh new wind through an organization. With PIL, your organization gets the right methodology and support to make ideas tangible and launch them successfully.