New product development screening and decision-making has become increasingly complex given the diversity and explosive growth of information sources. Most of the time, the catalogue of available, ready-to-go proposals combines both ideas originated in-house, and externally scouted opportunities.
"A library of smartly screened problem-solving R&D proposals"
Early collaboration between R&D and other departments, in particular manufacturing, marketing and intellectual property is critical to bridge organizational gaps and improve alignment between functions and overall quality of the innovation pipeline.
Give your R&D teams everything they need for your company to smartly pick and choose its battles.
- Global vision of company-wide in-house and externally sourced innovation proposals and related activities to avoid oversight and loss of opportunities
- Smarter screening resulting in better informed decision-making
- Efficient information sharing and as early as possible cross team collaboration for better quality innovation
TechWatch – Buy or build?
The complete tool kit for your R&D scouts and industrial process teams to source, screen technologies, and track the progress of those leads as they mature into buy or build proposals. Learn more…
Ideation – A rich pipeline of ideas that matter
Let your innovation community collaboratively build a rich pipeline of well purposed ideas. Learn more…
Innovation Management – Turn your best ideas into diamonds
All the capability combined with Enrichment Technology to support all your innovation teams in their coordinated quest for the “hidden gems”. Learn more…
Invention Disclosure – Boost your patent proposals
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R&D
“R&D” is about discovering new knowledge about products, processes, and services, and then applying that knowledge to create new and improved products, processes, and services that fill market needs. New product design and development is a crucial factor in the survival of a company, especially in fast-changing industries. Companies must continually revise their design and range of products. This is necessary due to continuous technology change and development as well as other competitors and the changing preference of customers. Research has shown that firms with a persistent R&D strategy outperform those with an irregular or no R&D investment program.
Effective R&D is a combination of knowledge, business processes, people, and technology to achieve this single goal: pick and choose the right battles. R&D involves huge data volumes and multiple programs involving large numbers of scientists that need to collaborate and which activities must be coordinated in order to identify winning proposals for tomorrow’s breakthroughs. Inova Software offers a comprehensive, end-to-end solution to achieve, just that.
