In today's competitive climate, business leaders understand the importance of aligning products, markets and technology with strategic plans. Yet, for most global organisations, achieving that level of alignment has been challenging. Alignent Software has fulfilled that need with Vision Strategist, database-driven enterprise planning software that builds alignment by gathering cross-functional planning information in real time and extending product planning from technology users to business users.
What is Vision Strategist?
Vision Strategist is the first and only centralised product planning software that aligns development plans with business objectives across the enterprise. This unique solution allows users to automate the strategic planning process and visualise alternatives for breakthrough product opportunities. Vision Strategist gives decision makers visibility into the company's future direction using roadmaps, time-based representations of information that support a specific objective or decision process.
Vision Strategist allows senior management to coordinate the efforts of multiple business units for a more effective innovation management process. The result is an automated strategic planning process that provides visibility into future capabilities, ensures R&D investment decisions are linked to long-range goals and aligns the organisation's diverse stakeholders into successfully producing deliverables that maximise financial returns.
Increase in new revenue by revitalising innovation and identifying new opportunities. Innovation doesn't happen by accident. For innovation to exist, an organisation must make the search for new opportunities a structured, systematic process. Vision Strategist fuels this process by providing access to a large database of cross-organisational roadmaps stored in a common format.
Cost reduction by maximising re-use and reducing redundant technology development. By providing a framework that fosters clear and accurate communication and coordination - even between multiple business units - Vision Strategist makes it easier to find opportunities for technology re-use and assists in consolidating similar technology development taking place simultaneously.
Better alignment and synchronisation across functions and organisations. Vision Strategist allows the creation of strategic roadmaps that involve stakeholders at many different levels, including senior management, operations, program management, suppliers, marketing, sales, R&D, support functions, and in some cases, your most valuable customers.
Improve an organisation's agility by creating a strategic plan that reacts to market changes in real time. With Vision Strategist, all roadmaps are stored in a centralised database, where any individual in the enterprise can be granted permission to view or modify specific elements. When changes are made, all key stakeholders are automatically informed so they can immediately see if the new changes will impact other elements of the business unit's mission.
Maintain accountability and ownership of each individual's role in the overall strategy, and communicating those responsibilities to others. With a centralised roadmap database, Vision Strategist enforces accountability by assigning ownership to every initiative. Moreover, all initiatives can be directly linked to the organisation's overall strategic plan.
Vision Strategist can also be expanded to meet a variety of additional needs with a suite of corresponding applications and modules. Vision Synergy collects planning information through online questionnaires, converts it into roadmap format and integrates it into the database for access and reuse. Power Grid, another popular tool, displays planning data in a tabular format, allowing planners to quickly update large amounts of data, or share data with other individuals who can contribute or validate planning information.
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