Technology

Scouting
#1 Rated Tech Scouting Platform

Uncover the best possible opportunities for your organization.

Tech scouting is a force multiplier for your IT and R&D investments.

Technology Scouting is the continuous, systematic search, evaluation and integration of

new technologies and trends. This is achieved by forging partnerships that complement
an organization’s internal expertise and R&D investments. In today’s global and hyper-
competitive era, finding strategic partners that help you achieve your business objectives is
essential for success.

A well-defined tech scouting process and strategy will enable you to identify the right
problem areas that lead to finding and investing in breakthrough opportunities.

Addressing Modern Business Challenges

É Weak Warning Radar Systems
It is imperative to constantly monitor global trends and technologies to identify major
threats and new opportunities before it’s too late. Tech Scouting serves as an early
warning system so that your organization can act decisively on key insights and major
risks at an early stage.

É Proven Tech Versus Building From Scratch

It can often be costly and risky to invest in building new technologies in-house. Tech
Scouting may often lead to less expensive, lower risk, and faster time-to-market
solutions that are aligned with your strategic objectives.

É Speed of Responding to Change

Customer needs and demands change so quickly that some of your offerings may no
longer be relevant or become obsolete in a short period of time. Organizations can take
advantage of tech scouting instead of increasing their R&D expenditure to quickly adapt
to changing market trends and conditions.
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An Imperative Tool for Future-Fit Businesses

Today’s top-performing Future-Fit organizations leverage tech scouting to:

É Survey New Technologies

Identify and source technologies based on your organization’s needs. Shaping the future
can save your organization from being disrupted and help you become the leader in your
industry.

É Find Strategic Partners & Startups

Find the right partners and experts for joint ventures and strategic collaboration. Perform
due diligence, negotiation, and in-depth analysis of every potential deal to forge the best
partnerships.

É Perform Competitive Intelligence

Survey the market to identify key players and emerging threats in any technology space.
Perform a deep dive into the strategy of any competing company or organization to decide
on the best course of action.

Planbox’s Tech Scouting Platform

Identify paradigm shifts, predict trends, find emerging technologies, and solution partners

Researching, analyzing, and understanding paradigm shifts , emerging trends, and

technologies are essential to driving your organization’s growth. Planbox helps you build a
Future-Fit strategy and target the right technologies for your desired business outcomes via
its top-ranked AI-powered Agile Innovation Management Platform by Forrester and 2,000+
integrated applications and data sources. The data set will help your team understand the
right problems to solve, identify trends, discover new technologies, and potential partners
in real-time for your market, and define actionable opportunities through a configurable
evaluation methods. Planbox’s AI/Machine Learning (ML) feature for Natural Language
Processing (NLP) enables more substantial search capabilities and allows users to quickly
uncover new opportunities.
Workflow Engine

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Planbox’s Unique Platform Capabilities

É Configurable Interface & Workflow Engine

The Planbox Solution is built on an adaptable workflow and business rule
engine. Drive your tech scouting processes based on your own design,
branding, rules, structures, requirements, and planned activities with
ease. Simply drag and drop events and set up business rules that look
like the spoken language to design and change portals, dashboards, and
workflows for any process. Automate routing, assignments, approvals, and
notifications. No programming required. No downtime.

É AI-Powered Trends & Tech Discovery

Planbox’s AI-driven Tech Scouting Platform uncovers invaluable insights by
identifying relevant information from all accessible internal and external
private and public data sources, such as RSS feeds, social media platforms,
helpdesk tickets, CRM, ERP, PPM, BI, and more. Using this information,
Discovery Central leads to breakthrough innovation by transforming raw
data into insights through virtual collaboration. Discovery Central can
turn any organization into a hotbed of innovation. These core creative
methods generate breakthroughs in any aspect of your business – including
breakthrough business models, products, technologies, ways of serving
customers, and ways of working together.

É Center of Excellence for Innovation

Center of Excellence (CoE) delivers a self-service community for your team.
CoE comprises a set of building blocks that form the informational hub
to better plan, communicate, and control your tech scouting program,
all of which are built on the fundamental principles you have adopted as
your standard for tech scouting. Completely customizable to reflect your
organization’s brand and values, these key pillars include: program, team,
planning, success, resources, and improvements.

É Tech Scouting Built Into Every Tool You Use

With just a few clicks, Planbox offers users the freedom to connect their
favorite apps to the platform, empowering them to effortlessly streamline
their workflows, and facilitate the flow of information between applications
without coding or requiring developers to build custom integrations.
Some common out of the box connectors include: Microsoft Sharepoint,
Teams, Project and Office 365, Google Workplace, Crunchbase, Pitchbook,
Salesforce, Slack, Workday, and more.

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É Crowdsource Emerging Technologies & Outreach

Find the best strategically aligned technologies for your organization by
leveraging IdeaConnection by Planbox’s network of 20,000+ experts and
researchers across the globe. Our multidisciplinary teams of handpicked
problem solvers find solutions for your toughest challenges using
crowdsourcing tools and techniques.

É Flexible Evaluation Methods

Planbox offers various technology evaluation methods, such as criteria-
based evaluation, task-based evaluation, pairwise comparison, and head-
to-head review. Select the best method to evaluate every opportunity
based on volume, complexity, the number of reviewers, and best practices.

É Self-Service Analytics
With the Analytics Central option, Innovation Central has sophisticated
dynamic visualizations that let you comprehend the flow of ideas through
idea stages, crowd sentiment, and crowd prediction on a continuum (from
“low-cost, low value” to “high cost, high value”). Data visualizations of the
innovation portfolio enable you to interpret large sets of data from a high-
level perspective — ideal for executive presentations.

“Planbox also provides some of the more advanced AI/ML capabilities we observed for idea creation
and brings data-validation to idea selection, incubation, and commercialization. The company has
dramatically expanded its platform’s value and delivery.” – The Forrester Wave™: Innovation
Management Platforms, Q1 2020

Learn More About Planbox

Explore the Planbox platform and learn how your organization can innovate consistently
and experiment cost-effectively while managing its entire innovation pipeline and portfolio
with this 1-min video, or find out how your team can work on innovation, automate routine
tasks, and automatically discover actionable information in all the tools they use with this
1-min video.

See Planbox in Action

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