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Accolade Technology Scouting

Operationalize External Innovation at Enterprise Scale

Discover, evaluate, and integrate emerging technologies that support your strategic growth priorities. With Accolade Technology Scouting, you can govern external innovation efforts, connect scouting activities directly to your innovation portfolio, and move validated opportunities smoothly into execution—without relying on ad hoc tools or disconnected processes.

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With Accolade Technology Scouting, you can:

Identify and explore emerging technologies, partners, and ecosystems
Align scouting activities to defined growth strategies and opportunity spaces
Evaluate and validate opportunities in context
Transition promising technologies directly into the innovation pipeline

Trusted by Global Corporations Worldwide

The Accolade Advantage

Accolade’s innovation management platform has transformed innovation processes for leading enterprises worldwide. 
A recent study by Forrester Consulting found the following:
25% Increase in revenue
from new products
15% Acceleration in
time to market
10% Savings in project management spend
1% Increase in profit margin
from improving products

Technology Scouting
 Designed for Enterprise Growth

Accolade Technology Scouting is a Strategic Innovation module built on Accolade Core. It enables organizations to run technology scouting as a disciplined, governed process, aligned to strategy, integrated with the innovation portfolio, and fully traceable from initial discovery through execution.

Each Technology Scouting implementation is configured to your enterprise’s strategy, governance model, and innovation structure, allowing you to define how external technologies are identified, evaluated, and transitioned into your Growth Innovation pipeline.

Your Technology Scouting solution can be configured to:
Define strategic opportunity spaces for scouting efforts
Capture and organize external technologies and partner insights
Evaluate opportunities using criteria aligned to your business priorities
Secure, scalable APIs and pre-defined integrations to connect seamlessly with other enterprise systems
“With Accolade, we are more successful by a factor of 20% to 30%.”
Head of Project Management
Manufacturing
“About 40% of our portfolio right now are projects that were created in the last 12 months. That is a far more agile, reactive, and dynamic portfolio than we ever had in the past.”
Global Commercialization Lead
Consumer Packaged Goods
“We bring all of our actual data into Accolade. That allows you to start to identify where you’ve got underperforming products versus what you planned.”
Global Commercialization Lead
Consumer Packaged Goods

Solve Key Technology Scouting Challenges

Ad hoc scouting with no strategic focus

Unstructured scouting efforts often produce disconnected insights that never translate into action. Accolade aligns scouting activities to defined growth strategies and opportunity spaces.

Poor visibility into external innovation options

Without a centralized system, insights are scattered across emails, spreadsheets, and presentations. Accolade provides a single, governed environment for technology scouting data.

Disconnected internal handoffs into execution

Promising technologies often stall due to unclear ownership or poor transitions. Accolade supports seamless handoffs from scouting into FEI, NPD, and portfolio execution.

Limited ability to evaluate and compare opportunities

Accolade enables consistent evaluation and validation of external technologies, ensuring decisions are made with full context and traceability.

Accolade Technology Scouting Capabilities

Accolade Technology Scouting supports disciplined ecosystem exploration and evaluation, ensuring external innovation efforts directly support enterprise growth objectives.

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Technology Scouting Feature

Self-service scouting tools

Enable innovation teams to explore technologies, partners, and ecosystems as needed, using configurable search, filtering, and analysis tools.

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Technology Scouting Feature

Ecosystem discovery

Identify and explore emerging technologies and innovation partners across global ecosystems aligned to strategic opportunity areas.

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“With Accolade, we are more successful by a factor of 20% to 30%.”
Head of Project ManagementManufacturing
Technology Scouting Feature

Scouting workflow management

Organize scouting activities into opportunity spaces, manage workflows, and connect insights directly to portfolio initiatives.

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Technology Scouting Feature

Opportunity validation

Assess technology maturity, scalability, market readiness, and strategic fit using structured evaluation processes.

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“We bring all of our actual data into Accolade. That allows you to start to identify where you’ve got underperforming products versus what you planned.”
Global Commercialization LeadConsumer Packaged Goods
Technology Scouting Feature

Pipeline handoff management

Transition validated technologies smoothly into active innovation pipelines, maintaining traceability from discovery through execution.

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Seamlessly Integrated with Your Enterprise Innovation Ecosystem

Accolade Core connects all your innovation management data, forming a single source of truth for your innovation organization—but it doesn’t stop there. 
Core also integrates with the tools you already use, so your innovation data flows where it needs to.
RESTful
API

Set up your tech stack to pull relevant innovation data from Accolade—with no rate limits.
Native MS Office integration

Edit and update Excel sheets in Accolade, tie Outlook emails to projects, collaborate on Teams—Accolade blends with the Microsoft tools you already use.

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Accolade Powers Growth Innovation

For too long, enterprise innovation has been a black box: nobody knows how long projects will take, or how they’ll contribute to OKRs.

Accolade changes this. By linking strategy to execution through a unified data layer, Accolade Core delivers the infrastructure for growth innovation. Define your enterprise goals, connect every initiative to those goals, and track progress and performance across your entire portfolio, all within the same system.

It’s the only innovation management platform that fully integrates strategic priorities with day-to-day execution, enabling you to manage your entire portfolio as a unified business case for enterprise growth.
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All You Need for Growth Innovation

Accolade is a modular Growth Innovation platform built on Accolade Core. Enterprises combine Strategic Innovation, Enterprise Coordination, and Process & Execution modules to create a system tailored to their needs, adding capabilities as priorities evolve.
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Accolade Core

The foundation of every Accolade system
Accolade Core provides the unified data foundation, operating model, and configurability that connect all Accolade modules into a single enterprise system.
It ensures visibility, accountability, and real-time data flow across the entire innovation lifecycle.
 
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Strategic Innovation modules

Plan and optimize innovation around enterprise growth priorities

Strategic Innovation modules help leadership teams define strategy, model future growth, and align innovation investments to the outcomes that matter most.

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Enterprise Coordination modules

Align resources, timelines, and dependencies across the enterprise

Enterprise Coordination modules ensure innovation initiatives are properly resourced, sequenced, and coordinated across teams and portfolios.

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Process Execution modules

Execute innovation with rigor and consistency

Process & Execution modules support the day-to-day management of innovation initiatives, ensuring governed, repeatable execution from concept to launch.

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Backed by Innovation Experts

Our technology consultants guide you through implementation, ensuring your enterprise is set up for success with the Accolade modules you choose.

But our services go beyond implementation. We help you convert your innovation pipeline into a system for predictable enterprise growth.

Implementing Growth Innovation best practices is a change-management initiative, and our team of seasoned industry experts is available to help you structure and execute the transition, not just to a new innovation management solution, but to a new innovation management philosophy.
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Enterprise Innovation Management
 That Drives Growth

Accolade’s collaboration tools and data visibility have enabled global enterprises to enhance profit margins, expedite time to market, increase new product success rates, and expand portfolio value.

See how Accolade can transform your innovation management practices from top to bottom.
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