Innovation Process

Fed by invention and ground-breaking ideas, the innovation process itself is arguably the most complex and critical business process of all. Harnessing a best-practice innovation process brings predictability and repeatability to how your product teams harvest ideas and evolve those ideas into tomorrow’s winning products. Plus, you can be confident knowing that your innovation process captures the very best internal and industry practices available today.

Challenges the Accept Innovation Process Addresses

• Islands of process excellence but standard innovation process followed across your product portfolio
  
• Lack of management control and visibility caused by product teams applying different processes to each innovation initiative
  
• Enforcing the right level of process and controls to achieve desired results without stifling creativity
  
• Fragmented use of tools and systems to automate the innovation process
  
• Difficulty comparing how you innovate with industry’s leading and respected pioneers in innovation management
  

Power Innovation with Process Excellence

Accept’s Innovation Process module supercharges your company’s ability to consistently innovate by providing a foundation for creating, managing and monitoring innovation processes, bring greater efficiency and effectiveness to how you develop great product. With Accept, process information is managed centrally and made available across your product teams – both the information needed to successfully apply these processes as well as the data and information generated by applying these processes…. all within an easy-to-access single system of record for innovation management.

The Accept Innovation Process supports leading innovation management methodologies from thought-leaders including PRTM, Stage-Gate, Inc. and the Software Engineering Institute (SEI). Examples of best practices supported by the Accept Innovation Management System include PRTM’s PACE methodology, Stage-Gate, and Agile development.

How the Accept Innovation Process Can Help You

The Accept Innovation Process framework is fully integrated with the other modules for Ideation, Portfolio Management and Product Development, as well as the Accept Innovation Foundation. This tight integration ensures the effective flow of information and knowledge throughout your innovation processes, from idea to product launch and beyond. With Accept’s Innovation Process Module you can:

• Model innovation processes to capture, define and share an internal best practices library
• Help product teams select the right processes with the right levels of control and flexibility based on the type of innovation initiative being undertaken
  
• Automate innovation processes using workflow, including approvals, exception handling and escalations
  
• Monitor progress against processes for greater management control and visibility
  
• Benchmark with industry peers to understand strengths, weaknesses and opportunities for improvement

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