You’re a genius, you idiot.
Creative breakthroughs happen we’re smart enough to stop trying to be smart adults, and instead become playful and open to possibilities like every child knows how.
Kitted cards unlock your creative thinking superpowers
The counter-intuitive truth is that genius innovations are seldom the result of laser-focused superior intelligence, but rather fumbling about in a state of confused curiosity.
Kitted Thinking Tools are genius insofar as they help you get in touch with your own inner genius, by providing prompts and tools to open up possibilities, and stoke divergent creative thinking.
What’s particularly good about them is that rather than prescribing how to be creative (which would be a bit ironic), they provide a modular system of physical and digital cards you can mix, match, and remix to suit any purpose.
For example the Practical Thinking Tools Actions Deck has a range of exercises such as an Assumptions Map or the 10 Ideas in 10 Minutes brainstorming tool.
These tools can be used by themselves to very positive effect, but the real magic happens when you combine them, for instance challenging everyone in your team to come up with 10 assumptions in 10 minutes for your Assumptions Map
Kitted's thoughtfully designed decks encourage fresh perspectives and support creative thinking. The concepts they teach can inspire better thinking and nudge us in novel directions.
Spencer Greenberg
Founder and CEO of non-profit Clearer Thinking & psychological research organization Spark Wave
Learning mental models will vastly improve your decision-making skills, and Kitted provides a tangible way to master them by integrating them into your everyday workflows.
Gabriel Weinberg
Founder and CEO of DuckDuckGo and co-author of the internationally best-selling book Superthinking - The Big Book of Mental Models
As AI automates more menial tasks, higher-order strategic, creative, and critical thinking skills will become increasingly important for all professionals. Kitted is an amazing tool to build these competencies with those you lead.
Jonathan Brill
Global Futurist at HP and Internationally best-selling author of Rogue Waves
You might choose some relevant Frames from the Perspectives deck such as Target Markets or KPIs to prompt consideration for your product launch planning meeting, or one of the Insights in the Strategy deck such as Scarcity might inspire a limited-time offer marketing campaign to drive sales.
The deck that will likely pay for itself the quickest, though, is the Critical Thinking Tools deck. Creative and critical thinking are seen as contradictions of a sort, but the reality is the best thinking tends to incorporate both. Thinking divergently about risks can save a lot of time and money, and similarly holding our beautifully wild creative ideas to account with rational evaluation actually nets out with more scope for creativity in the long run, because the ideas that work tend to be well-considered.
Whether you’re a seasoned creative professional or someone suffering the deep delusion that you’re not at all creative (all humans are creative, it’s an inherent part of problem-solving), Kitted will empower you with the tools to realize your full creative potential.
Applications
Marketing Brainstorm
This Play provides step-by-step instructions for how to run a marketing or advertising brainstorming session.
Identify your target markets, potential media channels, and value proposition before moving on to ideation exercises, and finally validating your ideas through an evaluation process.
This Play can be cloned and adapted to include other thinking tools when you have a Pro membership (12 months included with every deck purchased – Bundle = 4 years).
Applications
Workshop it
Kitted provides a complete workshop design system, with modular tools you can swap and choose to suit any strategic objective; as well as interactive templates, helpful examples, and step-by-step instructions.
Use your cards to plan your workshops with a smorgasbord of options, as well as to facilitate by giving participants tactile prompts and actions.
Applications
Perspectives Brainstorm
This Play provides a range of perspectives to provoke consideration of different points of view in a brainstorming or strategy session.
Combine an orange brainstorming Action such as 10 Ideas in 10 Minutes with a perspective stimulus card such as The Customer or No Limits.
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It's your jam
Many of Kitted’s Actions Thinking Tools are available as interactive FigJam templates.
Collaborate in real-time with your team while you’re together in the same room, working from home, or a mix of both.
Applications
Serendipity on the cards
Planning for creativity in workshops and other structured scenarios is certainly worthwhile, however the value of courting innovation through serendipity is substantial.
Simply having Kitted's cards on-hand as prompts for strategic, creative, and critical thinking in your meeting room or office could prove transformative.
Features
Future-proof
The artificial intelligence revolution means any task that can be automated, soon will be.
Consequently, most professional knowledge economy work will be redundant. What will remain for us humans is to use higher-order creative, strategic, and critical thinking to both pilot these AI systems, and make discerning decisions for all the work which remains.
Learning and using the mental models in Kitted's card decks is one of the best ways to future-proof yourself and prepare for the burgeoning Wisdom Economy.
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Workshop it
Kitted provides a complete workshop design system, with modular tools you can swap and choose to suit any strategic objective; as well as interactive templates, helpful examples, and step-by-step instructions.
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Share your thoughts
Whether you’re a thought leader in your industry or simply know a smarter way to do a specific task, Kitted’s platform provides you with professional tools to create shareable Kits (collections of resources), Flows (responsive rich media presentations), Plays (step-by-step instructions) and Articles to share with your team, clients, or the wider community.
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Represent
A great presentation can have nice graphics or fancy charts, but what really makes it impressive is not how it’s presented, but rather how compelling the argument is.
Kitted Thinking Tools are rich with insights and examples that can elevate your presentations with strategic nous and acumen; formatted for any presentation format as PNG files or standalone slides.
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Mission Critical
Mitigating risks, especially for big projects, is one of the cheapest ways to save a lot of money.
Kitted’s thinking tools provide practical ways to run critical evaluation exercises.
Your new deck of Thinking Tool cards could pay for itself 100 times over if a single serious liability is averted.
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Team Up
Fostering a culture of higher-order thinking can yield manifold benefits in terms of innovation, collaboration, and proactive value creation.
Professional development needn’t be limited to expensive off-site training days, it should be part of the culture itself. Kitted has a range of professional development options including Mental Model Mondays and Lunch & Learn sessions, however, the best way to learn is by actively applying these tools to our work.
The Full Bundle Set
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This comprehensive collection is the ultimate professional toolkit and contains every Kitted Thinking Tool from the four different category decks.
It also includes 4 years of Pro Membership access to the kitted.app platform, 12 one-year Pro Memberships to share with colleagues, and editable PowerPoint and Keynote templates for over 200 thinking tools.