Innovation portfolio review
Provides a prioritised view of emerging opportunities to inform portfolio discussions. Each opportunity includes a concept sketch and evidence base, giving teams a concrete basis for comparing potential directions.
— Strategy & Research
Innovation Opportunity Scanner
Converts external market and technology signals into a prioritised innovation pipeline, each opportunity carrying a concept sketch, its evidence base and a build, partner or watch recommendation.
- Strategy & Research
- Traceable reasoning
- Runs anywhere
3–4 days → ~10 minutes
Including the external research pass
No coding required
- Input
- Market research and industry reports
- Output
- Prioritised innovation opportunity pipeline
- Runs in
- Skillsize · ChatGPT · Claude · Copilot
- Export
- SKILL.md · MCP
- Time saved
- ~3–4 days per run
— USE CASES
What people use Innovation Opportunity Scanner for
Emerging technology assessment
Connects technology developments with potential innovation concepts. Distinguishes opportunities worth building or pursuing through partners from those better kept under observation.
Market opportunity exploration
Synthesises market signals into defined opportunities for new products, services or business models. Makes the evidence behind each concept explicit, supporting focused conversations about strategic relevance.
Leadership investment discussions
Provides an evidence-backed opportunity pipeline for leadership consideration. Build, partner or watch recommendations clarify the proposed stance towards each opportunity without treating every emerging trend as an investment priority.
What it works from
- Market research and industry reports
- Technology trends and emerging developments
- Competitor activity and market announcements
- Customer needs and demand signals advisory teams have identified
What you get back
- Prioritised innovation opportunity pipeline
- Concept sketches for each opportunity
- Supporting evidence and source references
- Build, partner or watch recommendations
— HOW IT BEHAVES
How Innovation Opportunity Scanner produces its result
The mechanics behind this specific template — what it reads, what it calculates, and where a human stays in the loop.
Live research on the market being watched
Current external sources on the market being watched are researched during the run rather than recalled from training data, and every source travels with the output.
Composed as work product
Findings on the market being watched are written up as a document that reads like professional output, with each claim tied back to a signal.
Criteria-based analysis of every signal
Each signal is assessed against explicit criteria you control, so the same standard is applied across the market being watched on every run.
Why this is expensive by hand
Market and technology signals often arrive as disconnected research, competitor announcements and emerging trends, making it difficult to distinguish credible opportunities from noise. Innovation portfolio review is the typical trigger — provides a prioritised view of emerging opportunities to inform portfolio discussions. Each opportunity includes a concept sketch and evidence base, giving teams a concrete basis for comparing potential directions. Get it right and the conclusion holds up in the room; get it rushed and it gets picked apart. Either way it costs roughly 3–4 days of experienced attention.
How this Skill produces it
Here the same job runs as a Skill. Your material goes in; prioritised innovation opportunity pipeline comes out, alongside concept sketches for each opportunity. The judgement is built in — how items are broken up, what standard they are held to, and where the run stops for a human review. Net effect: 3–4 days down to ~10 minutes, no drift between runs, and every conclusion traceable back to the evidence behind it.
Who it's for
- Strategy and corporate development teams
- Consultants producing evidence-led recommendations
- Founders and executives testing new directions
- Anyone who has to cite what they claim
Run it in Skillsize — or export it anywhere
Innovation Opportunity Scanner exports as a structured SKILL.md file and is MCP-ready, so the same method runs in ChatGPT, Claude, Copilot or your own AI products. Adapt it to your methodology, and the intelligence stays yours — not locked to one vendor.
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