USE CASE > PORTFOLIO MANAGEMENT
Manage innovation portfolios and projects the agile way
Use the ITONICS Innovation OS to develop, evaluate and track innovation portfolios and keep efforts focused as strategy evolves.
- Identify innovation initiatives with the most potential
- Focus resource allocation
- Standardize reporting and track results in real-time
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Why is innovation portfolio management important?
Innovation portfolio management is a framework for organizations to align their innovation resources and capabilities with strategic goals. It involves prioritizing initiatives, programs, and projects based on market developments, internal capabilities, and resources.
Strategic portfolio management enables your teams to identify gaps or redundancies in project pipelines, allocate resources according to changing business environments, and balance growth initiatives across the organization.
Pursue opportunities that hold the greatest potential
Start by using trends, technologies, ideas, and startups identified from "Where to Play" and "How to Win" phases in a matrix view to help establish the best strategic fit.
Examine new ideas and forms of value creation while also exploiting existing capabilities. Map, analyze, and qualify opportunities and innovation projects to balance quick wins and moonshots. Move forward with innovation initiatives that are most aligned with internal capabilities and business goals.
Identify synergies, gaps, or redundancies across your innovation portfolios to optimize results.
Ensure better transitions from ideas to implementation
Enrich selected opportunities with evidence from internal and external experts on one digital innovation platform. Link trends, technologies, and inspirations to strengthen concepts and bring all initiatives and projects into view on easy-to-use Kanban boards.
Define certain criteria, tasks, or deliverables that projects must go through to move to the next phase. Use workflows to standardize processes and improve project health and status transparency.
Calculate budgets and forecast the impact on projects. Allocate resources at the right time and manage the time-cost relationship of projects.
Connect innovation initiatives and keep stakeholders informed
Innovation is not isolated to the R&D department. Expand it! Ensure your organization is not wasting efforts by focusing only on today's challenges. Connect innovation portfolios and aggregate project information to inform prioritization and align resources.
Manage your resources effectively. Use gap analysis and project monitoring to plan capacities and responsibilities in your company. Deep dive into project details and define KPIs for continued monitoring.
Integrate the opportunities brought by startups into your innovation process. Optimize investments and realize potential.
Bring your innovation portfolios to life
Manage your innovation portfolio by developing integrated project pipelines to execute innovation initiatives effectively. Monitor innovation projects and sync efforts by organizing project activities on the ITONICS Roadmap.
Move innovation projects to execution. Empower teams to adapt in an agile manner. Report on progress easily with transparent views on the status of projects and tasks.
ITONICS customer Fletcher Building maintains portfolios and roadmaps of more than 30 innovation leaders on the platform. Based on this, portfolio outcomes and future directions are discussed in decision meetings with the management board.
Invest in the most promising innovation opportunities
One solution to bring all your innovation efforts together, enrich it collaboratively and evaluate it across different views.
Learn more about the Innovation OS.
Customizable criteria enable team members and external experts to rate content in a way that combines collective knowledge.
Learn more about Foresight Features.
Encourage team and stakeholder involvement with easy content sharing, collaborative ratings, and engagement features.
Learn more about Ideation 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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Accelerate the realization of your innovation goals by finding relevant startups to partner with.
Learn more about Radar.
Distill vast amounts of data with advanced filtering to easily visualize and emphasize what matters.
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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.
Get quick status overviews on innovation initiatives and report on these easily.
Learn more about Ideation Features.
Manage work-in-progress, maximize flow, and prioritize your most valuable initiatives using interactive Kanban Board.
Learn more about Kanban Boards.
Accelerate time-to-market with multilayer roadmaps. Align the efforts of different business units and execute your strategy.
Learn more about Roadmaps.
A single point of truth to ensure balanced innovation portfolios
Read more on our unique, proven methodology that covers the following innovation questions: Where to Play, How to Win, and What to Execute.
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Driving innovation leadership with portfolios and roadmaps
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