This is a growing collection of useful and frequently used tools that innovation and product discovery teams prefer to make progress fast. Please note: This is neither a list coordinated with IT, nor officially approved by Aesculap (only the tools in Tab “Avail @Aesculap” are officially available). The list is a preliminary suggestion made by us at FIM of tools that we had good experiences with. It remains to be seen which innovation tool stack we will establish at Aesculap in the future.
Existing tool stack @Aesculap
Below we list a selection of digital tools we at FIM know to be beneficial and accelerating for innovation work. We also list frequently used tools that are available (and from our observation) used at Aesculap that either slow down innovation work or where better more effective tools are available on the market. You can see our FIM »rating score« from 1 to 5 for each tool (the calculated average from the tool’s perceived usability and functionality properties).
Due to recent political developments we also had to flag all tools that send data to U.S. clouds and servers (regardless of them promising to honor the GDPR) and that we cannot deem “safe” anymore. It therefore is only safe to use tools under the tab »Aesculap Official« or those who can be self-hosted.
Innovation & Product(ivity) Tools
These tools and collaboration practices are the anti-thesis to fast product and innovation work. We do not recommend to rely on them only or else team velocity will suffer.
Email as primary file and information exchange (everything becomes hard to find again)
Word and Powerpoint for documentation purposes (no cross-referencing possible)
“Knowledge management” and documentation through file storage in folders in Sharepoint (intransparent to both team and third parties)
Microsoft Loop for knowledge management: this software is a useless, bad clone of Notion with rudimentary functionalities. Don’t use it.
User Testing in Controlled Environments
Remote_Testing_iPad_Technik.pdf
Remote_Testing_iPad_Technik.pdf