A framework for innovation management

Abstract

Over the last 3 years a niche has emerged forWeb-based tools to support innovation management processes. However, these tools usually focus on a limited part of the innovationmanagement cycle.Moreover, in spite of the inherent portfolio nature of many decisions in innovation management, such tools tend to lack group decision support capabilities, except for simple mechanisms using discussion for a and voting systems. We describe a flexible framework based on collaborative decision analysis to support innovation management processes and outline a Webbased architecture implementing such framework.