Portfolio Management

The relentless focus on reducing product cost and time-to-market has led many companies to invest heavily in systems and processes that drive peak productivity and predictability in every stage of product development. But with efficiency increasingly commoditized, how are you ensuring effectiveness? How do you know you are building the right products? How can you ensure R&D investment is optimized across your portfolio? How can you rely more on fact and less on gut feel?

Challenges Accept Portfolio Management Addresses

• No way to analytically evaluate product trade-offs and make the right decisions
• Product decisions based more on gut than objective, factual data
• Poor confidence in product pipeline to deliver on market wants and needs
• No way to focus budget and resource investments on winners
• No way to course correct mid-stream based on new market developments
• “Me too” products not differentiated from competitors

Align Strategies, Plans, Requirements and Resources

The Accept Portfolio Management module improves visibility and control throughout the innovation process, empowering you to manage your R&D investments more effectively. Powerful market-driven strategy planning and analytics help ensure maximum portfolio value and strategic alignment. With Accept Portfolio Management, you can:

• Capture strategic goals and objectives
• Maximize R&D investments by aligning strategies, products, and resources with the needs of the market
• Balance product investments between short-term objectives and long-term growth
• Model product offerings and supporting market, technology and product roadmaps
• Evaluate alternatives and assess the impact of change using what-if and trade-off analysis
• Monitor real-time portfolio performance and attractiveness to strategy and plan
• Gain true understanding of how your company and products will differentiate from the competition