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Innovation Portfolio Management Software

Step into your personal innovation cockpit. Ensure your innovations translate into impact by tracking your whole innovation portfolio and measuring the value it delivers over time.

Why Innovation Portfolio Management Software?

End-to-End Innovation Project
Management

Efficiently manage a tailored process involving all relevant stakeholders

Collaborate Around Tasks, Resources and Risks

Use intuitive tools to manage every aspect of your innovation portfolio and track them across teams

Calculate Your
Accumulative
Bottom Line Impact

Measure and analyze your projects’ impact on revenue or savings, and track KPIs relating to your innovation ROI

Fully Integrated with Your Innovation Ecosystem

Projects are created from any combination of ideas, technologies and start-ups

How Does it Work?

Seed
Prioritize
Prototype
Commercialize
Track
Seed
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Seed

Easily create or initiate new projects to ensure your innovations come to life.

  • These can be stand-alone projects, or derived from one or more ideas, trends, technologies, or start-ups
  • Import projects from other sources/systems (Jira, Monday, Microsoft Project, etc.), and classify by domain, impact, category, and more
  • Use our APIs and integrations to import progress updates from other systems automatically (i.e. ‘a project managed in Jira has been completed’)
Prioritize
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Prioritize

Manage your pipeline to ensure it fits your corporate needs and collaborate around your projects.

  • Evaluate projects via a step-by-step process using our flexible evaluation workflow
  • Define different stakeholders for the different phases in your project lifecycle, and allow users to rate, discuss, and identify relevant experts to join the project team
  • Use Kanban boards to manage your tasks across all projects, and configure automatic reminders, escalations, and notifications of task completions and changing project statuses
  • Track and measure monthly/quarterly updates on project status or financial estimations, and find everything you need using our intelligent search features

 

Prototype
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Prototype

Identify and neutralize key risks and forecast the impact your innovation projects have on your company.

  • Mark and prioritize your risks per project and assign them to applicable owners
  • Easily view the status of key risks across your portfolio and measure/improve accordingly
  • Breakdown the impact of each project – positive and negative
  • Calculate the profitability of your projects and assess the overall impact of your innovation project – per topic, unit, product line, team etc.
Commercialize
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Commercialize

Review the final shortlist of innovation projects and use the insights at your fingertips to decide which ones to commercialize. 

  • Create tasks and assign resources to manage the implementation of your innovations companywide
  • Integrate with leading PLM (Product Lifecycle Management) tools of your choice to automate the process
  • Use our ‘adoption’ feature to encourage and track cross-company implementation of your innovations
Track
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Track

Use rich dashboards and reports to track your project portfolio and measure it against your KPIs.

  • Use our robust project Sonar tool to view your project portfolio across domains, teams and maturity levels
  • Use extensive built-in analytics to generate key metrics, KPI pages, ROI reports, and more
  • Perform deep dives into your project data to analyze your impacts across years, domains, teams, and more
  • Drill down into your data using rich interactive filters to find the insights you are looking for in terms of efficiency, productivity, and more

Successful, Together

With Qmarkets you are never alone. Your very own Customer Success Expert is always there to share best practices, offer friendly advice, and help you take full advantage of the platform. As part of every project, we help map out your requirements against our features, before tailoring the platform and workflow to your unique needs.

Tracking Features At Your Fingertips

Custom Workflow

Choose between our best-practice workflow templates or intuitive self-admin to tailor your unique innovation processes

Magic Quadrant

Cross-reference a variety of criteria to display a quadrant view of the most relevant solutions for your requirements

Agile Kanban Board

Intuitively progress solutions across different workflow stages with our agile Kanban board view

Innovation Funnel

Get a clear overview of your process and the innovations at each stage to identify bottlenecks and optimize your program

Project Management

Easily create tasks and assign a team or budget to help bring your innovations to life

Budget Control

Manage resource allocation both per-innovation and company-wide

Bulk Actions

Update and manage many innovations at once, including workflow state, ownership, categorization, and more

Portfolio Analysis

Prioritize and analyze projects and manage your portfolio over time

Risk Management

Facilitate and track expert analysis of risks associated with your innovations

Essential Innovation Portfolio Management Software Integrations

Essential Innovation Portfolio Management Software Integrations

BI & 3rd Party Reporting Tools

You can pull the data from Q-impact into your preferred business intelligence tool, whether it’s Power BI, Tableau, or any of the other major systems. You can also export your innovation portfolio data on an ongoing or daily basis to create powerful reports that sync data with your own reporting tools.

IP & Patent Lifecycle (IPLM)

Need to manage the progression of your innovations into patents? If you prefer not to manage that within the Qmarkets platform, you can easily set up a seamless integration with your existing patent lifecycle management tools.

What is Innovation Portfolio Management?

Discovering great innovations isn’t enough. You need the right tool to successfully and efficiently implement them across you organization, assess and overcome risks and obstacles, engage the right stakeholders, and track your projects’ progress.

Your Own Innovation Ecosystem

Unlock your organization’s full potential with software that powers all of your innovation management activities. Gather and manage trends, technologies, ideas and more, and develop them into a portfolio of innovations that deliver real ROI for your business. Start small and scale up if, how, and when you choose.

Trend Management
Trend Management

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.

Technology Scouting
Technology Scouting

Leverage unlimited innovation intel. Tap into a global network of endless growth opportunities and collaborate with key stakeholders to manage an intelligent deal-flow process involving start-ups, experts, academia, partners, and more.

Idea Management
Idea Management

Don’t just talk about innovation, make sure it happens. Nurture a culture of collaboration to gather, evaluate, and implement impactful ideas that deliver ongoing value for your organization.

Continuous Improvement
Continuous Improvement

Operate at your maximum potential. Embed a streamlined process to continuously discover opportunities for improvement and operational excellence across your business.

Innovation Portfolio Management
Innovation Portfolio Management

Step into your personal innovation cockpit. Ensure your innovations translate into impact by tracking your whole innovation portfolio and measuring the value it delivers over time.

Trend Management
Trend Management

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.

Technology Scouting
Technology Scouting

Leverage unlimited innovation intel. Tap into a global network of endless growth opportunities and collaborate with key stakeholders to manage an intelligent deal-flow process involving start-ups, experts, academia, partners, and more.

Idea Management
Idea Management

Don’t just talk about innovation, make sure it happens. Nurture a culture of collaboration to gather, evaluate, and implement impactful ideas that deliver ongoing value for your organization.

Continuous Improvement
Continuous Improvement

Operate at your maximum potential. Embed a streamlined process to continuously discover opportunities for improvement and operational excellence across your business.

Innovation Portfolio Management
Innovation Portfolio Management

Step into your personal innovation cockpit. Ensure your innovations translate into impact by tracking your whole innovation portfolio and measuring the value it delivers over time.

Start Your Innovation
Portfolio Management Journey Today

Get in touch with our team of innovation experts to see how we can help unlock your innovation potential.