About Innovation Framework Technologies

In the recent years, innovation has become one of the highest priorities of executive teams. It has become the primary business lever to deliver profitable growth now and in the longer term, as globalization and cost cutting makes innovation the key source of competitive advantage.

IFT’s mission is to help organizations transform their innovation management processes to reduce time-to-market and grow revenues, profits and market share. Our solution combines market-leading software with specialist consulting advice to deliver results quickly, sustainably and cost effectively.

IFT is dedicated to providing world-class solutions to the innovation challenges of executives and senior management responsible for R&D, marketing, engineering and operations. Unlike generic software vendors, IFT is exclusively focused on delivering Innovation and New Product Development software solutions. IFT is owned and managed by recognized business software specialists who held executive positions at Artemis International, ProSight, ABC Technologies and Changepoint Compuware. IFT' specialists have conducted in-depth evaluations of multiple software products based on their extensive experience of the market and independently selected what can be considered the best-in-class software platforms for innovation management. IFT has distributor rights to these products, in order to offer our customers a single source for the best software, best practices and implementation services for business innovation and new product development. IFT was the first vendor to obtain ‘Stage-Gate® Ready’ certification from Dr Cooper and Dr Edgett, the founders of the Stage-Gate methodology.

About our solutions
Our solutions offer clients the fastest route to innovation process excellence, due to three unique advantages:
Pre-packaged best practices from the leading experts in innovation management, such as Drs Allen and Bone for technology strategy, Clayton Christensen for customer opportunity analysis and roadmapping, and Drs Cooper and Edgett for product portfolio management and stage-gated product development. IFT was the first software vendor in the world to be certified by Cooper and Edgett as ‘Stage-Gate’ Ready. Flexible user-interface. Our web-based software must meet the demands of both industry best-practice as well as client-specific approaches. We therefore have developed a user interface that can be rapidly tailored to support the precise process needs, terminology and languages required by each business unit or division within an organization. This accelerates user adoption, reduces implementation costs and enables supported processes to easily evolve over time. Comprehensive process support. Our modular functionality covers the breadth and depth of innovation management processes; from ideation to product performance tracking and from innovation strategy to timesheets. All this is offered in a single application and database, enabling streamlined process flows, simplified user interaction, common access controls and holistic reporting and dashboards. No third party application purchases or complex interfaces between disparate software technologies are required.