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Corporate innovation from strategy to execution

Use the ITONICS Innovation OS as a digital ecosystem for corporate innovation. Scale your impact and develop a competitive advantage in the short, mid, and long term.

  • Adapt early to a changing environment
  • Empower thousands of employees to drive innovation forward
  • Break down traditional corporate innovation silos
Corporate Innovation with the ITONICS Innovation OS
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Why corporate innovation?

Corporate innovation is an approach that cultivates a culture of change, innovation, and transformation. Teams identify which market developments show the most potential for their business, validate ideas, and transform them into short and long-term strategies for improved operations and growth.

Developing products, services, and business models to meet market needs is imperative to maintain a competitive advantage. Having corporate innovation as a formal function ensures that organizations deliver the right solutions at the right time.

Innovate smarter with a single point of truth

Bridge the innovation gap. Ensure alignment from strategy to execution. Collect, organize and categorize data, manage phase-gate workflows and deliver board-room-ready reporting. Speed up the innovation process by digitizing and automating environmental scanning and foresight processes, and connect the different phases of innovation on one online platform.

Build a global innovation network to co-create across business units and geographies. Enable cross-collaboration and involve stakeholders on the journey. Encourage participation, improve common understanding, and motivate innovation investment.

Develop rigorous innovation capabilities within your organization and anchor innovation as the driver for growth.

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Tap into the unknown

Move from sporadic trend spotting to continuous foresight with ease. Streamline environmental scanning efforts to scan scientific publications, news, and patent databases in real time and quickly separate signals from the noise.

With ITONICS Automated Monitoring, leverage the power of AI by letting our system track sudden surges or drops in interest around a specific topic. Instant alerts are sent directly to your inbox, where one click reveals visualized insights so you can focus on what matters. Harness machine intelligence to process data at scale.

Centralize your research, establish standardized processes, and build a unified insights ecosystem with our innovation management platform.

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Uncover growth opportunities

Understand the relevance and potential impact of drivers of change such as trends, emerging technologies, startups, competitors, or risks on your business. Collectively evaluate drivers of change and visualize results on a dynamic Radar. Consolidate multiple layers of information into a single point of truth.

Empower teams in innovation, foresight, strategy, R&D, digitalization, and transformation to identify previously unknown innovation opportunities.

Prioritize growth opportunities and challenges to be solved on the path to implementation.

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Use the power of the crowd

Leverage your network’s collective intelligence by bringing together the right internal and external minds to develop, discuss, and evaluate solutions to tomorrow's challenges. ITONICS enables idea and innovation campaigns that scale to your needs, from 5 to 500,000+ innovators.

Enhance and accelerate idea submissions by harnessing the game-changing capabilities of Generative AI (GenAI).  ITONICS Smart Ideation accelerates idea generation and elevates the quality of ideas produced.

Unleash ideas ranging from core improvements to true moonshots. Create the space for win-win innovation collaborations between business units, external partners, and startups.

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Optimize innovation portfolios

Pursue opportunities that hold the greatest potential. Map, analyze, and qualify opportunities, transformation programs, and projects to balance quick wins and moonshots. Move forward with initiatives most aligned with internal capabilities and business goals. Identify portfolio synergies, gaps, or redundancies to optimize results.

Define the criteria, tasks, or deliverables projects must meet to move to the next phase. Use workflows to standardize processes and make the health and status of projects transparent. Calculate budgets and forecast the potential impact on projects. Allocate resources at the right time and manage the time-cost relationship of projects.

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Execute innovation programs

Meet your innovation objectives by coordinating activities spread across several units and partners. Multilayered, interactive, and easily configurable, the ITONICS Roadmap is an essential tool for strategic leaders who oversee growth, R&D planning, project governance, and implementation.

Visually identify bottlenecks or critical hurdles. Identify synergies and make agile decisions to speed up time-to-market. Improve transparency and centralize decision-making. Get everyone on board and moving forward with a successful innovation management solution.

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Connect people, processes, and implementation

Content Management

One solution to bring all your innovation efforts together, enrich it collaboratively and evaluate it across different views.

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Rating

Customizable criteria enable team members and external experts to rate content in a way that combines collective knowledge.

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Collaboration

Encourage team and stakeholder involvement with easy content sharing, collaborative ratings, and engagement features.

Learn more about Ideation Features.

Matrix View

Optimize your innovation portfolio by evaluating risk and potential with matrix visualizations.

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Integrations

Seamlessly integrate ITONICS into your existing IT infrastructure or 3rd party tools for an enriched and more connected approach.

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Trend Radars

Explore trends and uncover new opportunities for growth using interactive, configurable radars.

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Technology Radars

Visualize emerging tech and identify their relevance for your business. Today, tomorrow, and in 5 years’ time.

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Phase-Gate Workflows

Implement phase-gate processes for evaluation and control in projects and ideation campaigns, to ensure efficient resource allocation and higher success rates.

Learn more about Portfolio Features.

Smart Ideation

Use the power of GenAI to accelerate idea submissions and automate ratings in phase-gate processes.

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Kanban Boards

Manage work-in-progress, maximize flow, and prioritize your most valuable initiatives using interactive Kanban Board.

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Innovation Roadmaps

Accelerate time-to-market with multilayer roadmaps. Align the efforts of different business units and execute your strategy.

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