Learning
The Learning Stage Playbook
The Learning Playbook acts as a hands-on guide for the facilitator of EEP sessions. It provides an overview of all exercises in the Learning stage as well as additional context and resources.
Enterprise Enablement Toolkit
Transform complex enterprise challenges into scalable solutions with our curated collection of frameworks. With stakeholder mapping, problem statements, and high-velocity brainstorming, this toolkit provides the essential resources to lead your team from strategy to execution and drive meaningful business impact.
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The Exploring Stage Playbook
The Exploring Playbook provides a structured, expert-led framework and toolkit to guide organizations through the Exploring stage of blockchain adoption. It contains modular exercises across three core segments, Empathize, Ideate, and Plan, designed to help teams define concrete problem statements, understand user needs, and brainstorm viable use cases. Ultimately, it enables enterprises to assess strategic and tactical challenges while establishing clear goals and success metrics for prospective pilot projects.
- Learning
The Power-Interest Matrix
The Power-Interest Matrix is used to identify key project drivers by evaluating the relative influence and concern of different actors involved in the project.
- Learning
The Stakeholder Map
The Stakeholder Map provides a broad overview of all invested parties, ranging from internal employees to the general public, to understand how they might affect the project.
- Learning
Define Success
The goal of Defining Success is to align the team across the entire project cycle by establishing concrete goals, a unified vision, and achievable milestones.
- Learning
30 Circles
30 Circles is a warm-up exercise used to unblock creativity, build confidence, and encourage your team to generate ideas quickly rather than polishing them.
- Exploring | Learning
The Problem Statement
This exercise is designed to define the core project challenge in a simple sentence that is easily understood and agreed upon by everyone on the team.
- Exploring | Learning
Asking Why 5x
Asking Why 5x is a root cause analysis tool used to understand a problem in depth rather than just addressing surface-level symptoms.
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AEIOU
The AEIOU framework is a structured method used to document rich context regarding how users, objects, and environments interact within a system.
- Exploring | Learning
How Might We…
How Might We (HMW) questions are used to transform identified problems into actionable design opportunities by reframing constraints as open-ended challenges.
- Exploring | Learning
The 6-3-5 Brainstorm
The 6-3-5 Brainstorming method is a structured, silent, and highly efficient way to generate a large number of ideas in a very short amount of time.
- Business Casing | Exploring
Design Principles
The Design principles exercise establishes core guidelines that your team can use as a consistent framework for making fast, unified decisions during the project.
- Business Casing | Exploring
Jobs to Be Done
The Jobs To Be Done (JTBD) framework is a powerful lens for understanding customer motivation. It’s based on the idea that people don't just buy products; they "hire" them to do a specific job in their lives.
- Business Casing | Piloting
The Impact-Effort Matrix
The Impact-Effort Matrix is a classic template used to identify which initiatives, ideas or actions are worth executing.
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The 5W+H Questions
The 5W+H Questions exercise offers a structured framework to holistically analyze complex challenges by exploring core components, Who, What, When, Where, Why, and How, guiding teams from initial ideation to real-world adoption. By brainstorming secondary questions, differentiating facts from assumptions, and validating answers through data or interviews, organizations can surface latent patterns and pinpoint root causes of friction. Ultimately, condensing these findings helps align leadership, eliminate guesswork, and chart a predictable path for project implementation.
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The Empathy Map
The Empathy Map helps teams gain a deeper understanding of customers by capturing observable behaviors; what they see, hear, say, and do, to infer their internal thoughts, feelings, pains, and gains. Key best practices include grounding observations in real evidence rather than assumptions and identifying "say/do" gaps or contradictions in user behavior. Ultimately, these structured insights are synthesized to build representative customer personas that replace guesswork with structured adoption.
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Personas/User Profiles
The Personas/User Profiles exercise guides teams in synthesizing empathy research into a concrete, target user profile to keep user needs front-and-center when building blockchain solutions. By mapping out a persona's background, core tasks (Jobs to Be Done), pains, gains, and key influencers, teams can replace guesswork with structured insights and foster aligned, user-centered product decisions.
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The Pixar Story
The Pixar Story is a 30-to-45-minute workshop exercise within the Cardano Foundation's Enterprise Enablement Toolkit that uses a six-scene storyboard to turn research and journey mapping into a compelling narrative. By positioning the user as the primary hero and the blockchain solution as a supporting mentor, the exercise maps their journey from a core operational challenge to ultimate success. This structured activity helps organizations replace guesswork with a clear before-and-after story that demonstrates measurable commercial value and accelerates pilot adoption.
- Exploring | Business Casing
The Customer Journey
The Customer Journey exercise in the Enterprise Enablement Toolkit provides a structured, step-by-step process for mapping customer actions, thoughts, and emotions before, during, and after an interaction to eliminate guesswork in blockchain adoption. By identifying friction points such as wallet setup complexities or department hand-off gaps, teams can uncover strategic opportunities for improvement, such as fiat-to-license on-ramps and automated printer API integrations. Ultimately, assigning explicit areas of responsibility across phases ensures that theoretical blockchain concepts are translated into predictable, high-value commercial pilots.
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The Blue Ocean Tool
The Blue Ocean Tool helps organizations differentiate their offerings by identifying key strategic factors competitors focus on across the buyer utility life cycle. By using the 4 Actions Framework to eliminate, reduce, raise, or create specific benefit levers, teams can address unserved market needs and eliminate unnecessary friction. This structured process allows organizations to construct a unique value proposition that unlocks new commercial opportunities and establishes a distinct market presence.
- Exploring | Business Casing | Piloting
What Does Success Look Like?
The "What Does Success Look Like?" exercise helps teams align on project goals by identifying success criteria across personal, organizational, and societal levels. By combining private brainstorming with transparent group discussions, team members can voice honest ideas and discover unexpected perspectives. Voting to narrow down top North Star metrics ensures that groups establish clear alignment and actionable priorities for project implementation.
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Vision Cone
The Vision Cone exercise in the Enterprise Enablement Toolkit helps teams design a desirable future scenario and reverse-engineer actionable steps to achieve it. By analyzing past shifts and current status quo, participants brainstorm radical future options and map concrete milestones over a 90 to 120 minute workshop. This structured retropolation process replaces guesswork with a clear roadmap from foundational education to live blockchain pilots.
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Critical Items Diagram
The Critical Items Diagram exercise provides a structured method for small teams to transition from research to design by defining essential solution requirements before ideation. By gathering and consolidating key user experiences, core functions, and future concepts into eight central items, teams establish a clear North Star for their project. These final elements directly feed into formulating actionable How Might We questions to guide effective ideation and experimentation.
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MSCW
The MSCW (MoSCoW) exercise helps teams identify and prioritize critical MVP features during early pilot shaping to optimize resources, protect timelines, and prevent scope creep. By mapping requirements into four distinct quadrants; Must Have, Should Have, Could Have, and Won't Have, organizations can clearly distinguish non-negotiable baseline deliverables from lower-priority items. Establishing strict core criteria, avoiding overcrowded "Must Haves," and documenting workarounds early ensures the project team maintains flexibility if budget or timeline constraints tighten.
- Business Casing | Exploring | Learning | Piloting
Voting
Voting serves as an alignment tool in workshops to narrow options, surface team priorities, and build momentum toward actionable decisions. Selecting the right method, such as secret ballots, digital polling, or dot voting, helps balance speed, anonymity, and group dynamics while mitigating biases. Structuring options before voting, appointing a clear decision maker, and validating final outcomes ensures effective consensus and clear next steps.
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