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Corporate inovation from strategy to execution
Use the ITONICS Innovation OS as a digital ecosystem for corporate innovation. Scale your impact, and develop a competitive advantage for 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

Trusted by global innovation leaders
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.
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.
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.
Connect people, processes, and implementation

One solution to bring all your innovation efforts together, enrich it collaboratively and evaluate it across different views.
Learn more about Foresight Features.

Encourage team and stakeholder involvement with easy content sharing, collaborative ratings, and engagement features.
Learn more about Portfolio Features.

Optimize your innovation portfolio by evaluating risk and potential with matrix visualizations.
Learn more about Portfolio Features.

Provide a shared understanding of your organization’s innovations efforts to keep everyone in the loop and enhance strategic decision-making.
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Seamlessly integrate ITONICS into your existing IT infrastructure or 3rd party tools for an enriched and more connected approach.
Learn more about Foresight Features.

Visualize emerging tech and identify their relevance for your business. Today, tomorrow, and in 5 years’ time.
Learn more about Technology Radar.

Distill vast amounts of data with advanced filtering to easily visualize and emphasize what matters.
Learn more about Foresight Features.

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 Ideation Features.

Spark and collect disruptive ideas with global submissions and effortlessly move them to implementation.
Learn more about Campaigns.

Manage work-in-progress, maximize flow, and prioritize your most valuable initiatives using interactive Kanban Board.
Learn more about Kanban Boards.
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Accelerate time-to-market with multilayer roadmaps. Align the efforts of different business units and execute your strategy.
Learn more about Roadmaps.
Empower corporate innovation teams to co-create innovative solutions on one single point of truth
Read more about our unique, proven methodology covering Where to Play, How to Win, and What to Execute within innovation. It’s much more than ideas!

Best-practice stories from true innovation rockstars

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.

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.

Increasing innovation efficiency and impact at Toyota
Toyota Motor Europe is using the ITONICS Innovation OS to bring together manufacturing centers in Europe on one digital platform to empower innovation.
Today, there are 200 projects of varying sizes on the platform, valued at more than €20 million, and a clear pipeline of new opportunities and proposals.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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Increasing Innovation Efficiency and Impact at Toyota

Innovation Framework & KPIs
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