Collections and focus

Have you discovered relevant trends and signals in scouting?

If you save trends or future fields, you have the option of marking them for later evaluation under the Focus menu item and/or saving them in a collection for specific topics:

• Mark for evaluation: Save macro trends or future fields that are to be evaluated. These are displayed in the Focus menu item and visualized accordingly in the trend radar after an evaluation.
• Save in Collections: Use Collections to store all important discoveries, such as macro trends, future fields and signals, centrally and clearly. This makes it easier to access and organize your collected information on a topic.

What can collections be used for

1. Strategic innovation and search fields: Store relevant trends and signals to centralize new strategic opportunities and technologies for future fields.
2. Team or department-specific topics: Use Collections to collect relevant data for departmental or team-internal projects and topics.
3. Collection of existing solutions for current projects: Store micro-trends, relevant companies, patents and other essential data that can directly help support and enrich ongoing projects.

How are collections created?

Collections can be created in two ways:

1. Directly when saving a trend or signal: Is there no or no suitable collection for a trend or signal? Click on the bookmark icon and select "Create collection". Describe it and save the selected content directly in it.
2. In the Collections menu item: Click on "Create collection".

Can content be saved in multiple collections?

Yes, a signal or trend can appear in several collections. By clicking on the bookmark icon, you can see in which collections the content has already been saved. By clicking on"save", the content is saved in an existing collection, by clicking on "saved" , the content can be removed from the collections again.

What happens to content that I have already saved before Collections existed? 

Trends and signals that you have already saved before the release of the collections are assigned to the automatically created Findings collection. From there, you can distribute the content to your own collections.

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Further information: 

• Create AI-Scout
• Scouting tips