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Roadmap frameworks are said to provide a common reference point for linking strategy and innovation (S&I) tools. It has been argued that there is no incompatibility between these tools and roadmapping. Therefore, combining the development of roadmaps with S&I tools would support an integrated approach to strategic management and innovation-related processes. However, it is not clear how diverse S&I tools can be meaningfully classified into basic types that are fundamentally different in the way they relate to roadmapping. Moreover, discussions of how these tools may be sequenced in an integrated approach are seemingly absent in literature. Thus, this paper proposes taxonomies and sequences for combining S&I tools with roadmapping by exploring potentially useful variations on how tools could be grouped and arranged over time. Both the multi-layered timebased general structure of roadmaps and the main S&I processes related to roadmapping are characterized in order to derive the criteria on which proposals are based. The tools level of analysis (strategy, portfolio, and project) and whether or not temporality and information of multiple layers are explicitly taken into account exemplify criteria employed. Results highlight the usefulness of identifying possible patterns in the combination of S&I tools and roadmapping for creating relevant guidelines for practitioners.