Strategy that grows out of your own work — not out of a bought-in trend list.
The strategy area condenses your team’s observations into an honest trend radar, turns trends into strategic moves with a vision and a target year — and connects both to the development projects actually working on them. With blind spots, calculated deadlines, and a radar that visibly fades when you neglect it.
Contribute → Condense → Align
A signal is not yet a trend. So inventMAP doesn't collect — it condenses: many small observations feed into a few well-tended trends, and only a deliberate promotion puts a point on the radar. That keeps it readable instead of turning it into wallpaper.
A few trends instead of a thousand signals
The radar shows the condensed trends and technologies that matter for your future — with time rings to market readiness, the level observed (customers, competitors, technologies), impact and your own readiness. With honesty built in: anything not confirmed for a long time visibly fades — radars die of neglect, and this one shows it.
Seeing what you are not seeing
Above the radar sit the fields of change — broad topic labels you adapt to your business. A field without a single living entry lights up as a blind spot: you are observing nothing here. With a scouting request, the strategy role calls on every member to look precisely there — the least visible gap becomes a concrete task.
Your answer to the trends
Strategic moves as bubbles in a market × technology field — with soft quadrants rather than hard boxes. Each move carries its product vision with a target year and the missing pieces on the way there: what is missing, why the vision needs it, in which time window. An empty area is a statement in itself: no initiative means no future option.
Calculated, not drawn
The roadmap knows two kinds of time: the planned one — and the REQUIRED one. Calculated backwards from the target year, every piece states by when it must be broken at the latest; where two goals share a barrier, the earlier year wins. If something is planned later than the goal allows, the delay appears in red on the bar and the goal carries a warning. And beneath each piece runs the real key project as its own bar — start, planned end, status and elapsed time, including a warning when the project ends later than the target year permits. Plans and target years stay honest.
Goals, barriers and projects as one picture
Beneath every view lies a real network: goals, barriers, trends and projects as nodes and edges. A trend that holds back division A while supporting division B is ONE node with two edges — visible across divisional boundaries instead of maintained twice in separate tables. And every barrier points through a portal to the development project that breaks it — with live status: open, in progress, solved. These key projects show up everywhere: as markers on the radar points they work on, and as a project view of their own in the portfolio.
Tomorrow's specification priorities, years earlier
The view classic radar tools don't have: a customer signal — say, the customer is electrifying its platform — shifts where the value sits in your own product — say, from unit price to installation space and weight. inventMAP records these shifts as early-detection candidates long before they appear in a specification — and passes them to the analyses of the linked projects as context.
The analyses are the test bench of the strategy
Strategy and project work feed each other: when a project hangs on a released strategic move, its foresight analyses receive the vision, the open pieces and the trends as background — as information, never as a straitjacket. And back the other way: any analysis finding can be reported to the strategy with one click. If a project contradicts an assumption, the radar marks the point visibly — rather than the strategy clinging to a well-tended opinion.
The playing field: who is filing on your fields?
Your product and technology portfolio as a playing field, competitors and customers above it, suppliers below — over time. The watchdog reports role breaks (a supplier suddenly filing in your field), technology leaps and new players, weighted by patent families. Every signal arrives as a candidate in the funnel — never unchecked on the radar. More on the patents page.
What has moved since last quarter?
One click freezes the state of the strategy as an immutable snapshot. The printable report then shows the movement: what is new, what was promoted to the radar, what has moved closer, where there was contradiction, which barrier was broken. Plus a health check with calls to action and a header carrying the seven most important points — no strategy meeting carries more.
Machines contribute too
Contributions aren't limited to humans: automatic observers scan the web around your competitors, customers and suppliers, and the patent analysis drops its findings into the same inbox — everything is reviewed like any other contribution, nothing reaches the radar unchecked. A patent particularity: filings only become visible 18 months after submission. They therefore arrive as a trailing wave of confirmation — what stands on your radar today as an assessment is, eighteen months later, either underpinned or called into question by your competitors' filings. Both are strategic information.
Strategy is secret — what is released is for everyone
The area has a strategy role of its own: drafts, assessments and the internal discussion are visible only to those entitled — enforced technically, down to the database row. Released trends and moves are visible to every account member, and anyone may contribute in any case. That creates participation without leakage.
Fed, not tended
Ready for a radar that grows by itself?
Start with the observations your team is making anyway — inventMAP turns them into strategy.