Now you can be certain the products you develop
are the products your customers want.

Product management executives rely on Accept to ensure alignment between product and company strategy, improve team productivity, and consistently reduce time to market. Accept can help you:

• Combine business objectives and market intelligence to establish winning technology and product strategies
• Keep ahead of the competition by staying on top of changing market forces and evolving technology
• Feed your new product pipeline and enhance existing products
• Implement and enforce one common innovation process that provides consistency in approach and reporting
• Reconcile top-down and bottom-up planning, and optimize resources, budgets, and schedules

Combine business objectives and market intelligence to establish winning technology and product strategies

Accept enables you to optimize your R&D investments to meet your business objectives, and focus on the projects and products that count.

• Develop technology and product strategies consistent with business objectives
• Measure and track alignment between product roadmaps and plans and higher-level strategies
• Perform what-if and trade-off analyses to determine optimal plans
• Shift product portfolio investments to more value- and differentiation-producing tasks

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

Use Accept to make fully-informed product decisions and build a sustainable competitive advantage. You can:

• Monitor the competitive landscape to measure strengths and weaknesses and drive competitive strategy
• Maximize idea velocity and reduce time-to-market to beat the competition to the market
• Gain deep understanding of market dynamics and needs

Feed your new product pipeline and enhance
existing products

Harvest ideas from employees and the broader market universe. Always possess enough innovative products in the pipeline to fuel growth and competitiveness. Accept enables you to:

• Integrate an innovation value chain from idea to product
• Perform portfolio planning to set investment targets
• Maintain a central idea repository
• Measure projected payoff for innovation investments
• Assess brand impact when constructing and evaluating product plans
• Capture direct and indirect feedback from customers through Voice of the Market capability

Implement and enforce one common innovation process that provides consistency in approach and reporting

Implement and enforce one consistent process that leverages both internal and industry best practices. Manage projects and resources to consistently meet commitments, and ensure projects deliver their intended value. You can:

• Manage interdependencies between projects and requirements
• Perform what-if and trade-off analyses to optimize plans before a project starts and later during development as changes impact plans
• Manage requirements across their entire lifecycle from point of origin through product planning and into product development
• Track project health metrics
• Use full audit history and trails to demonstrate compliance and change control

Reconcile top-down and bottom-up planning, and optimize resources, budgets, and schedules

Align your product team priorities with corporate strategy, and concentrate resources on the highest-value tasks. Accept enables you to:

• Weigh strategy criteria to develop alternate approaches that balance new product development and enhancements to existing products
• Get a consolidated view of strategic demand (large initiatives) and tactical demand (small daily tasks) to be able to make priority decisions
• Maintain a single system of record for innovation, with real-time visibility and reporting at every stage of the innovation process

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