Technologies for Innovation

Idea Constituency	How IT Can Help	Vendors
Customers	Surveys Online validation of prototypes Mining of customer complaints and suggestions	Active Decisions, Affinnova, Agile, E.piphany, IBM, Intelliseek, Questra, SAS, Spotfire
General employees	Identifying internal subject-matter experts Collecting and analyzing ideas	Akiva, BrainBank, IBM, Imaginatik, Knowledge Systems, Microsoft, Mindjet, OAS, Tacit
Academics and freelance inventors	Screening independent inventors Listing technologies Matching buyers and sellers	Arizona Technology, Enterprises, InnoCentives, IP2IPO, NineSigma, UVentures, yet2.com
Project managers	Reprioritizing innovation projects Reallocating innovation resources dynamically Fixing scientific bottlenecks Collecting and sharing experiences from past projects Supporting design-for-manufacturability and design-for-serviceability	AspenTech, Formation Systems, Gensym, IBM, IDe, Invention Machine, Microsoft, NinaTek, SAP, Sopheon, Spotfire, UGS PLM
Top executives	Analyzing patents Predicting technology lifecycles and financial impact of market disruptions Identifying risky projects	Capgemini, Evalueserve, Icosystem, Invention Machine, NuTech Solutions, SAP
SOURCE: Forrester Research and CIO reporting

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