Scouting results

Depending on individual use cases and topics, AI-Scout results can be used in a variety of ways:

• Evaluation & relevance: Summary, rating and visualization of the most important results on a topic or technology.
• Trend scouting: Recognition of industry, topic and technology-related trends.
• Signal scouting: Identification of existing solutions, companies, research or news on a topic or technology.
• Monitoring: Continuous updates and notification of new, relevant signals by e-mail.

Evaluation & relevance of a topic

The importance, progress and growth of a topic can be quickly and easily identified using three options in AnyIdea:

Summary

The most important results on a topic in just a few sentences: The AI assistant automatically summarizes identified results and the most important findings on your topic for you.

Rating of maturity & urgency

Do you want to know how mature and advanced a topic or a specific technology is in your industry?

The AI assistant calculates a "maturity level" and "urgency" based on the underlying data. Specific or technology-related scouting topics such as "AI in agriculture" or "Power-to-X" are ideal for this.

Urgency: The urgency of a technology or topic with regard to an industry is determined by the increasing number of current signals in certain signal categories and their composition. These provide information about increasing market pressure, regulatory requirements or increasing competition. (1 - not urgent, 10 - very urgent)

Maturity level: The maturity level determines the extent to which a technology or topic is already in practical use and established in an industry. (1 - low degree of maturity, 10 - high degree of maturity)

Distribution and growth of signals

The emergence of signals in different data categories and their growth show how data and the "interest" in a topic or technology has developed in recent years. The visualization for this can be found in the Signal View in AI-Scouts. The data is calculated and displayed up to 10 years in the past to show, for example, when a topic or technology became more interesting and relevant.

Distribution: If the graph shows that more and more companies, news or micro-trends are growing in comparison to research or patents, this can be an indication that a topic or technology is being put into practice and is beginning to reach the market. If primarily scientific data and information and research are available, such as scientific papers, research projects or patents, this may indicate that topics or technologies are "in their infancy", are currently being researched and, in terms of time, are still further away from practical applications on the market.

Growth: The growth of the signals shows when a topic or technology has gained or is gaining interest and relevance and to what extent.

Trend Scouting

AI-Scouts identify trends and developments specific to a topic or technology for you. The most relevant trend clusters are visualized accordingly and show how important and "big" individual trend clusters are. The larger a trend bubble is, the more relevant the trend cluster is according to the AI prioritization.

The trends are also clearly displayed in the grid and list view below. The most important trends are always displayed at the top (sorted according to AI prioritization). This allows you to see the most relevant trends at first glance.

Click on a trend in the bubble or grid view to access the trend details. Here you can also view the data on which the trend is based in a comprehensible and transparent manner. Trends can then be saved, evaluated and managed in the trend portfolio.

Further information:

• What trends does AnyIdea work with?
• AnyIdea AI and AI Prio Score
• Save trends
• Evaluate trends

Signal Scouting

If you are looking specifically for relevant signals such as micro-trends, start-ups, research projects or patents on a topic or technology, you can do this in the signal view of an AI-Scout. The results are clearly structured according to data categories, and the most important signals are always displayed at the top (sorted according to AI prioritization). This means you can always see the most relevant results at first glance. This saves you a lot of time and important resources in scouting and research and significantly reduces your workload.

Further information: 

• Data and categories
• What data does AnyIdea use?
• AI-Prio score and calculation
• Tips for better scouting results

Monitoring

Always stay up to date! AnyIdea scouts and aggregates new data sources and data 24/7. Our AI-Scouts automatically process this data for you on a weekly basis and calculate new AI priorities. If there are new relevant signals with an AI priority of over 75%, you will be informed by email. This means you can keep an eye on everything and won't miss anything.

Further information: 

How often is the data updated?

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