Keep your place at the cutting edge. Build a collaborative trend knowledge base to pinpoint the innovations that can have an exponential impact on your company bottom-line.
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Empowering Innovation Trend Management
Why Innovation Trend Management Software?
Stay at the Cutting Edge
Research strategic trend opportunities and ensure you never miss out on the next big thing
Automate Trend Engagement
Share trends automatically with experts and stakeholders for evaluation and enrichment
Collaborative Knowledge Base
Crowdsource trends from your entire workforce or from a selected audience
Gather Innovation Inspiration
Use the trends you discover to fuel further innovation across your ecosystem
How Does it Work?
Collect
Observe
Anticipate
Act
Collect
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Collect
Research for micro, macro, and megatrends, or enable employees to submit their own trends directly through a custom process.
- Research a rich database of trends, patents, publications, and research through integrated & embedded offering from Wellspring & TRENDONE
- Receive automatic updates about new trends and developments around topics you are interested in
- Build a collaborative knowledge base of trends through a manual submission from employees or external stakeholders
Observe
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Observe
Monitor and assess emerging trends and discover how they can benefit your business.
- Use the clustering view to see a strategic overview of relevant trends, and pinpoint the ones that are most relevant for your needs
- Easily collect & share information around the impact & potential application of different trends from internal stakeholders
- Our trend sonar allows you to prioritize & break down the trends to align with your company goal
Anticipate
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Anticipate
Use dynamic evaluation methods to determine how new trends should be incorporated.
- Gather expert insights through advanced voting tools, including score-cards, impact-assessment, & more
- Facilitate strategic decision making by reporting on your user data, trend workflow, and tasks, with a fully customizable dashboard
- Publish organization-wide or business unit–specific trend reports, automated weekly or curated on a monthly basis
Act
04 / 04
Act
Create new campaigns or projects based on the most relevant trends that you have identified.
- The Kanban tool makes it easy to move trends from one stage of your workflow to the next
- Invite internal stakeholders to adopt the trend or technology and report on feasibility
- Integrate trend data into your idea management platform for further evaluation or launch a hackathon and invite start-ups to collaborate in relation to your chosen trend
Trend Management Tools At Your Fingertips
Alerts, Reminders, & Escalations
A variety of automated communication tools to notify users regarding any relevant action, update, or activity
Review
Committee
Gather insights from a group of managers or experts using custom or pre-defined criteria
Advanced Permissions Control
Define which users or teams can access which content to a precise degree
Automated
Clustering
Gain an overview of the themes and topics being raised either on a campaign or company-wide level
Scorecard
Evaluation
Create a custom scorecard to evaluate ideas according to your specific criteria
Trend
Sonar
Gain a strategic overview of your portfolio and pinpoint the best opportunities with this dynamic visualization tool
Knowledge-Base Management
Easily find what you’re looking for across the entire platform, depending on your permission level
Predictive
Analytics
Assess the effectiveness of your process across teams and business units with custom KPIs
Competitive Landscape Tracking
Custom campaigns and reports to manage the solutions or initiatives of your competitors
What The
Experts Say…
61% of business are embracing open innovation to generate new ideas and deliver sustainable growth.
Open innovation is a successful, collaborative approach to innovation that can boost organizational performance in every phase of its innovation process.
The case for open innovation is clear: In today’s rapidly moving world, companies can ill afford to retain outmoded closed models of innovation management.
Start Your Innovation Trend
Management Journey Today
Get in touch with our team of innovation experts to see how we can help unlock your innovation potential.