Accolade

End-to-End Innovation Management Software

Accolade innovation management software guides the entire development process. Enabling you to align execution to strategy, allocate resources effectively, and secure real-time visibility into every step of the operation.

Keep projects in the pipeline aligned with your goals, and ensure they ultimately hit their targets.

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A Growth-Driven Innovation Management Solution

Accolade was purpose-built to transform innovation into enterprise growth. This innovation management system facilitates three distinct principles:

Growth

Articulate innovation growth targets within Accolade, and prioritize every idea and activity around them. Set KPIs and metrics that keep innovation on track.

Visibility

Centralize all innovation data in Accolade’s flexible database, so that stakeholders always have access to the critical, timely information they need at every step of the innovation process.

Orchestration

Align every innovation decision within the context of a portfolio-level growth plan and your organizational strategies and goals through strategic reports, ensuring that every activity is coordinated.

These three principles catalyse growth innovation, a management philosophy that turns your innovation pipeline into a source of predictable growth. With Accolade, you can tie ideas to the OKRs they would support from the beginning and use historic and predictive data to build business cases for them. Once ideas are greenlit, you can track their progress through the pipeline and into the market—giving you a complete picture of how your ideation practices contribute to your strategy.

To learn more about growth innovation, download our free ebook The Growth Innovation Trifecta: A New Philosophy of Innovation Management.

Trusted by Global Corporations Worldwide

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“With Accolade, we are more successful by a factor of 20% to 30%.”

Head of Project Management
Manufacturing

“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

“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

ACCOLAde Innovation Management capability

Define anything

Set strategic OKRs, custom labels, and KPI metrics based on your enterprise's needs. Accolade lets you create custom fields, targets, constraints, and metadata at any level, whether it's for an individual task or for your entire portfolio.

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Track anything

Monitor progress using classic metrics, or create your own. Accolade lets you track OKRs, portfolio health, product performance, pipeline progress, and resource availability—along with any custom metrics and indicators you choose.

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Optimize for anything

Set your own targets and constraints to optimize for, and link every activity to the OKRs it supports. With Accolade, you can define the optimal portfolio, forecast and compare different possible scenarios, and choose actions that align best with your strategy.

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Facilitate anything

Build your own governance into your innovation management platform. Accolade's automated workflows keep your activities compliant with your organization's procedures and policies for project process, approvals, reviews, and more.

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ACCOLAde Innovation Management capability

Visualize anything

Custom dashboards, labels, and KPIs. Inter-portfolio roadmaps. Filtered views. Accolade opens up your innovation portfolio, giving every stakeholder access to the information they need, when they need it.

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ACCOLAde Innovation Management capability

Anticipate anything

Catch snags before they become major issues, forecast resource needs, mitigate bottlenecks, and more. Accolade's forecasting and scenario modeling engine lets you plan for the future and prepare for the unexpected as you orchestrate your portfolio.

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ACCOLAde Innovation Management capability

Document anything

Break down information silos. Accolade creates an audit trail for innovation activities, and allows you to tag and label portfolios, roadmaps, projects, and initiatives with institutional knowledge documents, so everyone has access to the cross-functional insights they need.

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ACCOLAde Innovation Management capability

Connect everything

Innovation doesn't happen in a vacuum. Accolade links strategic initiatives, ideas, development projects, and product performance together, refreshing data automatically so that the right information gets to the right place on time every time.

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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.

Accolade integrates with your whole tech stack

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The Growth Innovation Leadership Manifesto

Enterprises are in desperate need of a new approach to innovation that facilitates predictable, organic growth. This approach needs to align strategies across your strategic portfolio, tear down the silos that keep teams inefficient, and unify innovation data so it’s accessible to everyone who needs it.

In our free ebook, The Growth Innovation Leadership Manifesto, we offer 10 resolutions to help crack open the black box that keeps innovation processes mysterious so you can regain some forward momentum from innovation.

Everything you need to Manage Innovation for Growth

Accolade is a modular growth innovation management platform. Customers use a custom mix of solution modules built on the core engine, so you only pay for the features you need. (And you can always add more modules later.)

Your Accolade setup will be unique to your enterprise, but every installment uses some mix of the following modules.

Accolade Core

A single, dynamic source of truth

The Accolade Core’s advanced tagging and linking solution allows you to manifest all your innovation management data in ways that reflect how you already run your operations. Accolade Core connects every moving piece of your innovation ecosystem together, and dynamically refreshes data in real time. Every roadmap, project, program, and dashboard are connected, so when one data point changes, Accolade automatically updates the rest of your portfolio.

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Strategic portfolio management modules

Optimize for your own targets and constraints

Define success, then optimize for it. Accolade’s strategic innovation management modules allow you to set your own targets, constraints, and KPIs across your innovation ecosystem, and scenario modeling tools let you assess different courses of action against your strategy, then choose the right move.

Strategic Planning

Revenue Stream Planning

Sustainability

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Innovation process management modules

Streamline your pipeline

Orchestrate your innovation portfolio with elegance. In Accolade, you create a digital representation of your innovation management methodologies, so your pipeline reflects and enforces your processes for all kinds of projects: new product development, idea management, manufacturing, and more.

New Product Development

CAPEX Management

Manufacturing Innovation

Technology Innovation

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Integrated roadmapping

Visualize your innovation operations

Accolade creates Gantt charts for any collection of innovation activities—so you can track progress from the portfolio level down to individual projects. Quickly locate pinch points and see how every project’s progress affects the rest of your portfolio with built-in dependency management tools and advanced roadmapping capabilities.

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Resource planning

Mobilize people and assets for success

Put the right people on the right projects at the right time. Enterprises use Accolade to track resource skill development, search their workforces by skill, experience, and other custom labels, and manage workflows to avoid bottlenecks and burnout.

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Backed by Innovation Experts

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

But our consulting services go beyond that: we’ll help you convert your innovation pipeline into a machine for predictable enterprise growth.

Implementing growth innovation best practices is a change management project, and our team of seasoned industry experts is available to help you structure and execute the process of transitioning not just to a new innovation management solution, but to a whole new innovation management philosophy.

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Innovation Management Software That Drives Growth

Accolade’s collaboration tools and data visibility 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.