Accept has a track record of improving companies’ ratio of R&D hits to misses, and enabling them to leverage their innovation processes for robust growth and a sustainable competitive advantage. Accept enables organizational leaders to:

• Meet or exceed revenue targets
• Establish innovation as a core business process to fuel growth
• Keep ahead of the competition by staying on top of changing market forces and evolving technology
• Anticipate and mitigate risk of product failure

Meet or exceed revenue targets

Avoid revenue shortfalls that result from delayed products or products that don’t match market and customer needs. Optimize your R&D investments, and ensure your corporate strategy is aligned with product strategy. Use Accept to:

• Track performance to plan of product initiatives
• Rapidly respond to change through instant visibility into strategy, product plans, and project execution
• Focus R&D investment in areas of highest strategic value and financial return with complete portfolio visibility
• Tie corporate strategies through to products and underlying capabilities to ensure products, R&D investments, and resources are aligned

Establish innovation as a core business process to
fuel growth

Ensure there are enough innovative products in the pipeline to fuel robust, sustainable growth. Instill a “culture of innovation” throughout your organization, and enhance company performance and brand value. Accept helps you to:

• Establish an integrated innovation value chain from idea to product execution
• Set investment targets to help ensure a balanced portfolio that feeds enough new products/services into the pipeline
• Assess brand impact when constructing and evaluating product plans
• Capture direct and indirect feedback from customers and others in your market universe through Voice-of-the-Market capabilities
• Include in the innovation process your global network of innovation and go-to-market partners

Keep ahead of the competition by staying on top of changing market forces and evolving technology

Obtain the right balance between reactive work and proactive strategy. Accept enables your product teams to build a sustainable competitive advantage, and:

• Maximize idea velocity and reduce time-to-market to beat the competition to the market
• Understand market dynamics and needs
• Proactively solicit customer input into ideas and product plans
• Foster deeper, more intimate customer relationships

Anticipate and mitigate risk of product failure

Prevent product flops, avoid missing market windows, and better meet market needs. With Accept, you can develop products predictably and with confidence, yet also respond quickly and smartly to change. Accept gives you the ability to:

• Manage innovation investment as a portfolio
• Capture, manage, and mitigate risks attributable to areas of competitive differentiation
• Understand the impact of changing priorities before making any course corrections

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