Foundation

The Accept Innovation Foundation links the capabilities of Accept’s three modules – Ideation, Portfolio Management, and Product Development. It provides three core capabilities that improve team and individual productivity and deliver visibility for all participants.

• Collaboration
• Business Intelligence
• Requirements Management

Now everyone from executives to the entire product team can benefit from a single system of record that captures all market, competitive, and requirements data in one place, giving you visibility at every stage of the innovation process.

• Leverage analytics to evaluate alternatives, optimize plans, and prioritize investments
• View role-based dashboards to improve real-time executive visibility and control
• Break down organizational silos to mobilize resources around innovation
• Foster collaboration and knowledge sharing within and across teams
• Proactively collaborate beyond the enterprise with customers, partners and suppliers
• Capture and prioritize requirements based on multiple internal and external factors
• Trace requirements upstream to business justification and downstream into design and development artifacts
• Generate and communicate requirements documents

Collaboration

Break down organizational silos, so you can mobilize resources around innovation and foster collaboration and knowledge sharing. You’re also empowered to proactively collaborate beyond the enterprise with customers, partners, and suppliers.

• Build a common, readily-accessible knowledge base
• Foster collaboration within and across product teams
• Share critical market and product data
• Receive real-time alerts and notifications
• Keep abreast of plan changes and cross-departmental product impacts

Business Intelligence

Accept enables you to leverage analytics so you can evaluate alternatives, optimize plans, and prioritize investments. Role-based dashboards give you real-time visibility and management control.

• Generate reports to communicate priorities and status
• Create alternative scenarios for what-if planning in seconds
• Rank-order priorities at any level based on multiple criteria, including cost, benefit, payoff, risk, and customer satisfaction
• View real-time red-light/yellow-light/green-light status updates at any level of detail
• Assess alignment of strategies with plans, products with customers, features with competitors, and plan with execution
• Create real-time “living” Product Requirements and Market Requirements documents that provide up-to-date information to all key stakeholders
• Take advantage of traceability reporting on the requirements hierarchy, which includes reporting down to your hierarchical themes

Requirements Management

With Accept, you can capture and prioritize requirements from multiple sources. You can also trace requirements upstream into business justification, and downstream into design and development artifacts, with appropriate documentation.

• Create a single, current repository of all relevant customer, market, competitor, cost, and resource data
• Rank requirement, product, and portfolio priorities based on strategic goals, customer commitments, costs, resources, and benefits
• Distribute task and status ownership while centralizing data and visibility
• Ensure you’re investing resources and budget in the right product capabilities

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