Technology Management & Technology Scouting

Why technology management?

Use technology management to identify and monitor emerging technologies that may impact your business. Scout, scan and evaluate technologies collaboratively, track developments, and determine how to respond to opportunities and threats.

Prioritize the most lucrative R&D investments and keep up with progress and changing circumstances. Shape, coordinate, and implement technology strategies to drive growth. Make the most of the “technology push” driving change in your organization.

Augment technology scouting

Kickstart your technology scouting with ITONICS content and stay up to date with the latest developments. Augment and automate global technology scouting, scanning, and monitoring with AI-enabled signal feeds. Get real-time scientific and patent data on emerging technologies important to your industry.

Reduce the human effort required to spot and monitor relevant technological developments. Get filtered data that fit your search intent. Save time by allowing distributed teams to scout on the same system and build a cross-functional innovation ecosystem.

Identify technology companies and startups that have potential—short, mid, and long term—in your industry or geography.

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Collaboratively evaluate your technology database

Collectively assess technologies or startups that may bring you closer to game-changing innovation. Get internal or external experts to rate on the ITONICS Radar and gain perspective with Radar visualizations based on the results. Different opinions help validate insights and strengthen your technology strategy.

The ITONICS Radar supports innovation leaders like Bosch, CISCO, and Siemens as a go-to platform for technology management. It has enabled the early identification of novel technologies and trends, supporting transparent and strategic decision-making.

ITONICS client Lear Innovation Ventures uses our Innovation OS to foster collaboration. Through collective intelligence, they identified more than 3,700 weak signals, 12 key trends, and technologies.

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Prioritize the right projects and execute your tech strategy

Optimize your technology management and R&D processes. Prioritize which projects to execute with the ITONICS Matrix. Take the technologies, ideas, and startups that you identified from the "Where to Play" and "How to Win" phases and place them in a matrix view to determine the best strategic fit.

Manage your resources effectively and exploit internal capabilities. Use gap analysis and project monitoring to plan capacities and responsibilities in your company. Bring your technology portfolio to life by using interlinked and interactive technology roadmaps.

Empower teams to adapt in an agile manner. Report on progress easily with transparent views on the status of technology projects and tasks.

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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.

Manage trends, technologies, ideas and innovation projects in one platform

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

Insights and automation with the ITONICS Innovation OS

Save time with AI-enabled environmental scanning that sorts through masses of data so you can focus on what matters.

Filters and visualizations of trends, technologies and startups

Navigate vast amounts of data with advanced search filtering and the ability to visualize signals over time and geography.

Technology radar with emerging technologies

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

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.

Matrix view feature - ITONICS Innovation OS

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

Inspirator App for spontaneous inspirations and ideas

Capture inspirations on your phone while on the go. Now anyone, anywhere can be a scout.

Web Clipper browser extension for ITONICS Innovation OS

Simple browser extension to collect inspiring content from the web and easily save it directly to the ITONICS Innovation OS.

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.

Cisco Technology Radar to accelerate technology foresight

Cisco operates in a world of increasing market volatility and globalization. With the Cisco Technology Radar they found a solution to effectively and efficiently manage novel technologies to maintain and enhance the competitive position.

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Trend Scouting and Technology Management at Lear - Success Story

AI-powered technology management to spot opportunities

Lear Innovation Ventures established with the ITONICS Innovation OS an early-warning system for weak signals. Through AI-powered trend and technology management they foster data-driven decision-making to continually invent, innovate and evolve new capabilities and products.

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Technology scouting to drive therapeutic innovation

Merz Therapeutics is using a tech scouting platform powered by ITONICS to more transparently gather and evaluate insights on activities in their business environment and to make informed decisions on how to expand their product portfolio.

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Innovation Rockstars Podcast Thomas Boermans E.ON

How E.ON drives the global energy transition through foresight

In his role as Head of Foresight, Thomas Boermans develops foresight based on trend and technology developments and provides strategic guidance to capture future opportunities and risks. In this episode, he takes us on his mission to think, plan and implement the energy transition.

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