# For innovation teams | Envisioning

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# For innovation teams

Test more opportunities and scale the ones that prove useful.

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## Where things get stuck

Innovation teams often sense possibilities faster than the organization can test them or make a successful experiment part of the portfolio. The recurring constraints are experimentation and scaling.

These are the three blockers that come up in almost every conversation we have with innovation teams.

-   Pattern 01
    
    You can see many possibilities, but there is no cheap way to test which ones deserve attention.
    
-   Pattern 02
    
    Experiments stay in discovery because the move from a promising prototype to a funded initiative has no clear owner.
    
-   Pattern 03
    
    Leadership asks what to scale and when, while the evidence is split across teams and projects.
    

## What you get

What innovation teams typically end up with.

-   Result 01
    
    Test more ideas cheaply, with a shared way to record what the team learned.
    
-   Result 02
    
    Give leadership a short list of opportunities with evidence and a clear next decision.
    
-   Result 03
    
    Move the experiments that work into the portfolio, with a reason to keep funding them.
    

## Relevant use cases

The situations innovation teams bring us most often, with the client work behind each one.

## [Innovation mapping](/services/use-cases?function=innovation-teams#innovation-opportunity-mapping)

Innovation teams use the tool during scoping and ideation to surface potential innovation spaces quickly, then shape them into actionable opportunity directions without waiting for long external research cycles.

Related impact cases

Future-proofing the European Manufacturing Ecosystem

A tech radar for EIT Manufacturing showing where European manufacturing is heading, built for the partner organizations that have to prepare for it.

2022

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Mapping the Future of Investment Technologies with Nubank

Collaborating with Nubank to develop a comprehensive technology radar that explores the future of global investment technologies, moving beyond cryptocurrencies and into broader financial innovations.

2022

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## [Technology roadmapping](/services/use-cases?function=innovation-teams#technology-roadmapping)

Strategy and innovation teams use the Signals Session, Signals, and radar views to structure technology bets, sequence investments, and align stakeholders around a shared execution path that remains reusable over time.

Related impact cases

Multiple Visualizations of Emerging Tech in a Multi-year Collaboration

A 5 year long research partnership with armasuisse, through DEFTECH (Defense Future Technologies), exploring the impact of emerging technologies with several open-source radar installations.

2015

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Charting the Energy Transition

In partnership with IEEE, we turned the PES Technical Roadmap into a comparative foresight tool their teams use internally, to weigh decisions about the energy transition toward net zero by 2050.

2026

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## Build capability

Your team sees for itself what AI can build today, and picks up a way to prototype an idea in a half day. Build Sessions take non-technical teams from idea to working prototype in a half day.

[Explore Build Sessions](/services/build-sessions)

The Envisioning team have added scientific rigour to technological foresight in a distinctive and compelling way.

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CEO

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## Where to start

How innovation teams usually work with us.

Innovation teams usually start with Signals Session, €7,500 per session.

[Start with a Signals Session](/services/research-sessions)[Scale with Signals](/signals)

Not sure which one? [Compare the service models](/services/how).