Vision Strategist from Alignent Software

Vision Strategist allows users to collaboratively enter product and technology information, and then graphically depicts it in the form of a multi-dimensional roadmap—a document that visualizes the status and dependencies of an opportunity. Within a roadmap, specific elements of an opportunity can contain supporting details and documents, allowing teams to view and report on roadmap data, link roadmaps to other planned projects, and analyze project interdependencies to make accurate planning decisions based on real-time information.

With the ability to illustrate the health of an opportunity over time, roadmaps also provide organizations with an extended view into the future and help decision-makers to assess the viability of long-range projects.

Show relationships between product plans over time.

Alignent Clients Improve Strategic Decision-Making and Resource Allocation

Using Alignent's roadmapping software, companies can anticipate, communicate and comprehend important shifts in markets, technologies and customer requirements. They can visualize different planning scenarios, or hone in on a product or program to understand associated resources, risks, dependencies, costs and projected revenues at any point in time.

Alignent Vision Strategist makes the roadmapping process easy by bringing important strategic planning information together—including market, technology, product, customer and supplier capabilities –into a single, easy-to-use system. By centralizing planning information across the organization in a clear and meaningful way, organizations can:

Improve Communication and Collaborative Decision-Making

  • Communicate meaningful planning information across distributed teams and business units
  • Gain visibility into how information is connected, what it means, and how it will change over time
  • Capitalize on information currently locked within departments, divisions and groups

Leverage Information and Visibility to Drive Increased Revenues

  • Optimize growth of important product segments
  • Make faster decisions to surpass the competition and enter new markets
  • Understand risks and opportunities related to key projects
  • Evaluate make/buy product investment decisions early in the development process
  • Speed assimilation of new technologies and supplier capabilities to bring products to market faster

Capitalize on Planning Information to Reduce Costs

  • Pinpoint critical resource needs and gaps related to products and programs early in the planning process, before they become costly to the organization
  • Identify R&D assets within the company that can be leveraged across different teams and product lines to reduce development costs
  • Eliminate R&D efforts that are not directly tied to a customer need or revenue opportunity