As innovation activity increased across operations and digital initiatives, this global energy company found that traditional project management tools weren’t designed to govern pilots. By adopting purpose-built pilot portfolio management, the organization gained portfolio-level visibility, transparent decision gates, and greater confidence in which innovation pilots to scale.

This global pharma company used Traction to run structured open innovation challenges, manage startup applications, support venture-style evaluations, host demo days, and transition winning startups into pilots with internal business units — all within a single platform.

Facing a growing volume of employee ideas, this enterprise used Traction AI to reduce duplication, surface lessons learned, validate ideas with objective market research, and accelerate the path from idea submission to high-confidence pilot programs.

This industrial manufacturer needed a better way to capture employee ideas, evaluate emerging technologies, and align innovation efforts to strategic priorities. Using Traction, the innovation team standardized evaluations, improved visibility, and moved promising initiatives into structured pilots.

This national pizza chain used Traction to identify and evaluate emerging technologies — from operations to autonomous delivery — enabling competitive innovation across the business while maintaining governance and execution discipline.

Global firms struggle with fragmented tech discovery as they scale. Using Traction, a 65,000-consultant firm systematically scouts, pilots, and catalogs solutions for clients.