Accolade Streamline the Pipeline with Accolade New Product Development Software
Accolade NPD software enables enterprises to accelerate launches for market-leading products. It’s a centralized platform that streamlines collaboration, mitigates risk, and enables data-driven decision-making.
Unlock the potential of your entire project portfolio with reliable roadmaps, automated workflows, and dependable resource allocation.
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Accolade New Product Development Capabilities
Drive successful new product development. Accolade helps keep your pipeline moving from idea to market on time and aligned with your strategy.
Facilitate any methodology
Stage-Gate enablement | Custom workflows
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.
Accolade originated as a purpose-built Stage-Gate facilitation tool, and today it enables every major NPD methodology at scale. You can set up textbook reviews and processes in Accolade, or create custom modified processes that mirror the way your organization works. Accolade makes sure the right people are alerted with the right information at the right time, and uses automation to enforce your process policies.
Accelerate the pipeline
Process automation | Predictive alerts
Automate your workflows and governance at every stage of product development. Accolade monitors your processes to ensure consistent compliance, actively mitigating obstacles and alerting you to potential hurdles before they derail your progress.
Maintain strategic alignment
Custom OKRs | Strategy-execution tracking
Accolade allows you to define your own targets and link activities to them, so you can always audit your portfolio for alignment with strategy and adjust to stay on track.
Track what matters
Integrated roadmaps | Custom KPIs
Manage timelines and dependencies with fully integrated roadmaps. Track standard metrics, or create your own. Accolade allows you to translate your organization's indices, frameworks, and indicators into dashboards, reports, and views for the stakeholders you choose.
Break down silos
Monitor your NPD pipeline with custom dashboards and reports, giving every stakeholder access to the information they need, when they need it. 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.
Connect everything
Product development doesn't happen in a vacuum. Accolade links strategic initiatives, ideas, projects, and product performance together, refreshing data automatically so that the right information gets to the right place on time every time.
Accolade integrates with your whole tech stack
Accolade Core
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
Accolade Projects
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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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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Source and validate ideas strategically
Tie your idea management processes to strategic OKRs and market performance. Enterprises use Accolade’s customizable intake and evaluation tools to collect, sort, and vet ideas for innovation projects. And because By connecting ideas to resource, roadmap, and historical performance data, managers can quickly identify what kind of new ideas the portfolio needs, expedite business cases, and move promising ideas from concept to commercialization.