Overview
The battle-tested toolkits behind the methodology — the canonical long-form source the modern pipelines are built from
These are the original, battle-tested toolkits — refined over a decade of consulting practice and used by adopters worldwide. They are not deprecated: they remain the canonical, authoritative long-form source of the methodology. The modern pipelines are a re-packaging of this same proven material for easier navigation — not a replacement for it.
The three toolkits
Platform Design Toolkit
The comprehensive PDT v2.2 — organized in three blocks: Exploration, Design, Growth. 19 canvases, three user guides.
3EO Toolkit
The 3EO Toolkit v1.0 — 7 canvases for entrepreneurial, ecosystem-driven organizations. User Guide and Adoption Guide.
Portfolio Map Canvas
The Portfolio Map Canvas Application Guide v0.1 — a single canvas with a substantial narrative guide. Sometimes called a 'semi-toolkit'.
Toolkits and pipelines: two ways into the same methodology
The toolkits and the modern pipelines are two views of one body of work — same canvases, same concepts, same artefacts. They are complementary, and which one you reach for is a navigation choice, not a quality judgment:
- The toolkits are the depth. Each guide is a self-contained, narrative end-to-end journey — the place to go for the full reasoning, the worked examples, and the conceptual foundations. This is the material that has been proven in the field over many engagements.
- The pipelines are the composability layer. The same techniques are decomposed into reusable units you can recombine — useful when an engagement needs only part of a guide, or wants to mix techniques across toolkits.
Years of practice surfaced recurring needs that the composable layer answers: teams often needed only part of a guide (e.g. just the ecosystem scanning section), wanted to combine techniques from different toolkits in one engagement, or met the same canvas across several narratives. None of that diminishes the toolkits — the pipelines build on them.
Want the full, grounded narrative — the canonical reasoning behind a technique? Read the toolkit guide. Want to compose an engagement from reusable parts? Start from the pipelines. Both produce compatible artefacts.
Artwork notice
The canvases embedded in these guides use the original 2021–2022 illustrations. These are being progressively redesigned with the new Boundaryless brand; you may see a mix of old and new artwork during this transition. The content is unchanged and remains authoritative.