A focus shift from simple ideation to end-to-end Agile Innovation
Wilmington, Delaware — Planbox, a pioneer in Agile Innovation Management solutions, was selected as a representative vendor in Gartner Market Guide for Innovation Management Tools.
According to Gartner, “application leaders should use this Market Guide to understand this market and make effective technology choices for their innovation acceleration programs.” The report finds, “the transformation to digital business, competitive pressures and new demands to scale remote work rapidly is increasing IT leaders’ interest in software that supports innovation acceleration initiatives.”
In addition to the analysis of vendor-supplied data, the guide looks at key characteristics and trends in the innovation management tools market, including market definition, description and direction. Gartner’s Social Media Analytics Service also carried out a social listening analysis. According to Gartner, conversations on social media highlighted how the focus shifted from idea generation in 2018 to agile innovation management platforms. “This reflected a need for broader support for all aspects of an innovation program beyond ideation, as well as the central roles of innovation in Digital Transformation initiatives.”
Agile Innovation has spread across a range of industries, departments and functions, reaching into the C-suite and the project management office to lead digital transformation across the enterprise and drive continuous innovation — a modern business imperative for customer-obsessed firms to stay ahead, as noted in the Forrester Wave: Innovation Management Platforms, Q1 2020, in which Planbox is recognized as the top-ranking Agile Innovation platform with the highest score in strategy and current offering.
Additionally, according to Gartner, “The most active area of development and differentiation between products is around custom workflows, integration, advanced analytics and the development of support for specific use cases.” Planbox recently launched an array of integrations including Microsoft Office 365, Google G Suite, Teams and SharePoint, among others, to facilitate the flow of information between applications and provide the opportunity for creative collaboration regardless of tool or location — empowering users involved in digital transformation initiatives.
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About Planbox
Planbox is the pioneering agile innovation management platform software provider for full lifecycle Innovation Portfolio Management, Emerging Tech Empowerment and Ecosystem Enablement. Planbox is recognized by Forrester as the top-ranking innovation management platform in the marketplace, having received the highest score in strategy and current offering in the Forrester Wave: Innovation Management Platforms, Q1, 2020. As the most robust and scalable platform on the market, we empower our clients to discover, collaborate and capitalize on the best strategically aligned concepts with their ecosystem of employees, customers, suppliers, partners, startups, academia, government and the general public to pursue breakthrough innovations, create a sustainable continuous improvement program, build a framework for corporate venturing and action on consumer insights. With over 20 years of domain expertise, 400 enterprise deployments, 5M participants and $10B of realized ROI for customers, Planbox’s AI-powered cloud-based agile innovation solutions accelerate business outcomes for some of the world’s most recognized brands, including Whirlpool, Dow, Novartis, ExxonMobil, Cargill, Bobcat, Honeywell and Sun Life.
In 2020, Planbox acquired IdeaConnection, the best-in-class open innovation platform and expert solver network. IdeaConnection by Planbox provides access to millions of diverse and brilliant minds and a global network of 20,000+ multidisciplinary experts and world-class facilitators in more than 180 countries, with an 80% solve rate for open innovation services such as public and confidential challenges, crowdsourced tech scouting and prior art search.