Planbox’s AI/ML capabilities will enable the Portuguese Navy to capitalize on emerging trends and technologies
Portsmouth, United Kingdom — Planbox, a pioneer in Agile Innovation Management solutions, has been selected to implement a system and culture of innovation across all units of the oldest continuously serving navy in the world, and to manage co-creation projects with internal and external communities including the Portuguese Navy Academy, Industry, and its partners.
“With Planbox, the Portuguese Navy is now equipped to firmly anchor their culture within innovation, and harness the collective knowledge and creativity of more than 10,000 individuals to seize on the best opportunities amid a sea of transformative ideas,” said Nathan Jacob, EMEA General Manager at Planbox.
The Portuguese Navy will also leverage Planbox’s Microsoft Teams integration to empower users to share and collaborate on their ideas and challenges directly from Microsoft’s leading communication and collaboration tool, as well as to facilitate co-creation activities between ecosystem stakeholders, both inside and outside the organization.
“As the oldest continuously serving naval force in the world, the Portuguese Navy has a fearless mindset steeped in growth. Navigating through transformations, like navigating treacherous waters, is second nature to them. The Planbox platform will support them in building a resilient culture of collaboration that will allow them to do just that in a sustainable and continuous manner,” said Jacob.
As the top-ranked platform in the Forrester Wave: Innovation Management Platforms, Q1 2020, Planbox’s robust solution — which was also selected to be the crowdsourcing system of the Royal Canadian Navy — was chosen by the Portuguese Navy for its advanced artificial intelligence and machine learning capabilities in idea creation and evaluation, which will support the navy’s mission in accelerating concept development across the five distinct innovation activities, these being targeting, ideation, incubation, planning and commercialization.
“To speed up access to emerging technologies and potentially disruptive research, the Portuguese Navy identified Innovation as one of its major priorities. The process of supporting innovation and incorporating new technologies needs to be robust and use the right tools to capture all ideas and seize on the best opportunities. Planbox is the kind of platform that we want with us on a daily basis, providing us with the necessary resources and tools to achieve our goals and further develop our innovation program,” said Pedro Mendes, Head of Innovation Division, Portuguese Naval Staff.
The Portuguese Navy innovation program is spearheaded by the recently created Innovation Division and will use the Navy Operational Experimentation Centre facilities at Troia, where the Robotics Experimentation and Prototyping – Maritime Unmanned Systems exercise – REP(MUS)21 – will take place this year from 8 to 24 September.
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Planbox is the pioneering agile innovation management platform software provider for full lifecycle Innovation Portfolio Management, Emerging Tech Empowerment and Ecosystem Enablement. Planbox is also recognized by Forrester as the top-ranking innovation management platform in the marketplace, having received the highest score in strategy and current offering in the Forrester Wave: Innovation Management Platforms, Q1 2020.
As the most robust and scalable platform on the market, we empower our clients to discover, collaborate and capitalize on the best strategically aligned concepts with their ecosystem of employees, customers, suppliers, partners, startups, academia, government and the general public to pursue breakthrough innovations, create a sustainable continuous improvement program, build a framework for corporate venturing and action on consumer insights.
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