SERVICES - external innovation

TECHNOLOGY SCOUTING

Technology scouting is the process of finding, sourcing, and evaluating existing or developing science, technologies, products, services, and emerging trends.

At IOCIS we are not only your FINDERS, and we are your FILTERS!

IOCIS starts with a brief, which we can help you define, and then we make a 'first round' filter based on a good knowledge of you, your stakeholders, and your company values and culture (Technology Insight Analysis™). Through using state-of-art AI technology (IGOR^AI by FINDEST), our network, investigative expertise, and multiple data sources, including looking at other industries, we collect a comprehensive list of prioritised 'possibilities' for your assessment, which can all be performed in our technology scouting platform by you and key stakeholders. After appraisal we focus on on your prioritised list (second round), collecting the necessary information you need to make a decision! Technology Insight Analysis™ aims to make the technology selection process simple and fast!

OPEN INNOVATION

Let the outside in!

Technology scouting is one example of open innovation, where you take external science and technology into your company, but there are many other aspects to open innovation. The world is becoming an ever more complex place, and most people agree that we need to collaborate and work together to solve the world's problems! This also applies to business, where the most successful companies are the ones that embrace and share with customers, the market, suppliers, other companies. IOCIS can help you build the linkages, and develop 'openness' to give you the competitive advantage, whether through partner finding, network building,  external ideation campaigns or innovation challenges.

People talk about innovation, when it should be innovation management!

Innovation is a process, it is taking an idea and converting it into a 'valuable reality', whether that value is for the company, customers, stakeholders, the environment, or society, and hopefully all of them! At IOCIS, with our innovation partners at INNOVATION 360, your innovation management can be turned into a 'growth' machine, so you can achieve your innovation goals, faster! 

At IOCIS, we can help you build and align an innovation strategy with your business goals, using PESTLED360™, SCENERIOS360™, and InnoSurvey® tools from INNOVATION 360. We can perform assessments of your innovation capabilities, competences, culture, leadership, and structure, with benchmarking against companies in one of the most comprehensive company innovation assessment databases in the world (>5000 companies). But more importantly, we give actionable recommendations, which are deliverable with positive results, through support from IOCIS.

IOCIS offers operational services, helping you to build or improve an innovation management system, with a customised governance structure. IOCIS offers innovation tool training and procedures to fit your organisation (ideation techniques, business experiments, design thinking, and many many more), and runs Innovation events - Innovation Circle™. 

We are licensed resellers of ideation360® idea management platform, which is a tested and proven way to generate, collect, evaluate, and prioritise ideas, to make sure you take the right projects forward into development, and never lose an opportunity or idea again!

Our offerings are 80% faster, data-driven, science-based, and delivered all over the globe!

For more details on our innovation management offerings, please visit Innovation 360 and ideation360