Corporate Innovation with the Innovation OS

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.

Where to Play: Identify opportunities for growth

Kickstart your corporate innovation strategy with opportunity identification with 200+ trends and technologies curated by our analysts, or import your own data instead. The first phase of innovation management, "Where to Play", is about understanding which drivers of change influence your business environment.

Use ITONICS Insights to harness machine intelligence to search data at scale and turn it into insights. Centralize your research, establish standardized processes, and build a unified insights ecosystem.

Bring drivers of change into focus on the ITONICS Radar and get a 360° view of possibilities for your business based on collective ratings. Analyze information with clear visualizations and arrive at answers quickly.

Develop strategic foresight capabilities with our unique and proven methodology and toolset.

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How to Win: Innovate together, transparent, fast, and with focus

Use the ITONICS Radar to uncover which trends, emerging technologies, and risks you need to pay attention to. Incorporate these to create online innovation campaigns that address strategic questions. Access collective intelligence to discover your next big transformation. Collect idea submissions internally as well as from external submitters.

Establish a reliable phase-gate process that lets you move idea submissions through phases and select the best ones for further development.

Customizable online forms allow easy idea submissions from external partners, including startups. With the ITONICS Crunchbase and Tracxn integrations, you can create and enrich startup profiles instantly.

Get the best experts to help you unlock new value by rating ideas to ensure that you back the winners.

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What to Execute: Prioritize, balance, and execute innovation portfolios

As a corporate innovator, you should pursue opportunities that hold the greatest potential. Map, analyze, and qualify opportunities with ITONICS Portfolio to balance quick wins and moonshots. Move forward with initiatives that are most aligned with internal capabilities and business goals.

Identify portfolio synergies, gaps, or redundancies to optimize results. Allocate resources at the right time and manage the time-cost relationship of projects.

To meet your innovation objectives, you need agile coordination of 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, program governance, and implementation.

Bridge the innovation gap. Ensure alignment from strategy to execution.

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Content and research on trends, technologies and startups

Kickstart your environmental scanning with ready-to-use trends and technologies compiled by our analysts.

Evaluations and ratings of trends and technologies

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

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

Technology radar with emerging technologies

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

Overview of integrations with the ITONICS Innovation OS

Seamlessly integrate ITONICS into your existing IT infrastructure and applications for an enriched and more connected approach.

Features for more collaboration in the ITONICS Innovation OS

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

Spark disruptive ideas from global teams with configurable ideation campaign workflows.

Matrix view feature - ITONICS Innovation OS

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

Roadmaps for innovation projects, technologies or products.

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

Software and features for managing innovation portfolios

Connect portfolios with strategy and inform priorities through project workflows, boards, budget planning, and reporting.

Dashboards and reporting - ITONICS Innovation OS

Easily export reports and results to keep everyone in the loop to enhance strategic decision-making.

Innovation Rockstars Podcast Bob Petrie Citi

Grinding corporate innovation at Citi

In this podcast episode, we are joined by the seasoned entrepreneur and innovator Bob Petrie. In his role as Director of Innovation, Bob gives us an inside look at Citi’s innovation ecosystem, introduces us to Citi Ventures, and elaborates on the symbiotic interplay of the ventures investing and the incubation arm.

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How Siemens Energy drives digitization and innovation - Success story

How Siemens Energy accelerates digitalization and innovation

As the digital backbone of all topics related to internal digitalization targeting the profitability increase, innovation, and cybersecurity, Siemens Energy's Orbit Ecosystem is designed to strengthen transparency and cross-organizational collaboration to future-proof the entire organization.

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Innovation Rockstars Podcast Danielle Ferry Moody’s Analytics

Innovation growth boards at Moody's Analytics

In this episode, Danielle Ferry, Senior Director for New Product Innovation, introduces us to Moody’s Innovation Growth Boards. We learn: What it takes to build an innovation growth board. How to gain commitment and support from the senior-most level. Which indicators to use to measure the success of a growth board.

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A digital and cross-site innovation ecosystem

The innovation platform at Leonhard Weiss, powered by ITONICS, has evolved into the central and company-wide place to go for everything concerning trend and tech scouting, ideation, and innovation portfolio management.

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Innovation Rockstars Podcast Roman Šiser ŠKODA AUTO

A blueprint for systematic innovation management

In this Innovation Rockstars podcast episode, Roman Šiser, Innovation Manager at ŠKODA AUTO, takes us on their innovation journey and explains how innovation management has changed in recent years. Learn how ŠKODA developed a systematic approach to innovation management.

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Implementing a company-wide innovation culture at KSB with ITONICS

Implementing a company-wide innovation culture with ITONICS

Discover how KSB is achieving company-wide culture change with a digital innovation platform powered by the ITONICS Innovation OS. Today, there are over 7,043 active users and more than 1,100 ideas have been submitted. All employees worldwide can actively participate in idea and innovation management.

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Innovation Rockstars Podcast Maria Mileder Paypal

Innovation: A global tournament

Together with Maria Mileder, Global Head of Innovation, we take a look into PayPal’s innovation toolbox and learn that innovation has less to do with titles but more with cultural values. The fact that innovation often starts small and is the result of the interplay of many individuals’ contributions becomes especially clear when we talk about PayPal’s Global Innovation Tournament.

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