Use case

Innovation Portfolio Management That Proves ROI

Innovation teams shouldn’t have to justify their existence.
 
With Yumana, you gain full visibility, objective prioritization, and reporting your leadership can rely on.
Innovation portfolio Kanban view. Project workflow from ideation to POC validation.
When leadership asks where innovation is creating value, and you don’t have the answer…
It’s time to regain control.

Yumana gives innovation leaders a single source of truth to track every initiative, align resources with strategy, and prove the ROI of innovation across the organization.

Organizations using Yumana achieve 100% portfolio visibility and boost project conversion by up to 25%.

From global enterprises to public institutions, innovation teams finally manage all portfolios, evaluate projects with data-driven confidence, and report measurable ROI, all in one place.

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portfolio visibility, up to

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Why innovation leaders choose Yumana

Innovation workflow board tracking initiatives from discovery to deployed solutions for SaaS collaboration.

A Single Source of Truth.

Managing multiple portfolios shouldn’t mean juggling multiple tools.
Yumana lets you oversee all innovation portfolios in one place, each following its own workflow.

Track progress against business cases, generate project review reports, and export ready-to-use PowerPoint slides in one click, so you can brief leadership faster and keep your innovation pipeline aligned with business priorities.

SaaS magic quadrant tool for pilotage and strategic evaluation of innovation projects with data-driven KPIs.

Data-Driven Portfolio Management.

Portfolio decisions shouldn’t rely on intuition.
Yumana provides smart data visualizations that reveal patterns, performance, and risks across your innovation ecosystem.

With evolving scorecards and the Darwin Innovation Potential Index, you can assess each project’s value, reprioritize in real time, and make smarter investment choices.

Built-in KPIs, including innovation velocity, help you measure process efficiency and continuously optimize your innovation cycle.

Integrated innovation dashboard with real-time KPIs, user engagement metrics, and custom reports options.

Show Results. Earn Buy-In.

Innovation earns credibility when it proves results.
Yumana gives you standardized dashboards to track outcomes, savings, and ROI, or custom reports built directly in-platform to fit your governance and reporting needs.

Unlike most tools that require external BI integrations, Yumana delivers actionable, presentation-ready insights that reflect your priorities and speak your company’s language.

Innovation workflow board tracking initiatives from discovery to deployed solutions for SaaS collaboration.SaaS magic quadrant tool for pilotage and strategic evaluation of innovation projects with data-driven KPIs.Integrated innovation dashboard with real-time KPIs, user engagement metrics, and custom reports options.

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What our customers say

Before Yumana, valuable initiatives were happening everywhere, but we had no way to connect the dots. Now, with 12,000 ideas scaled and €450M in value unlocked, innovation has become one of our strongest levers for performance.

Stéphane Richard

Former Managing Director
Orange

Yumana helped us build a culture where people feel seen, heard, and empowered to lead change.

Cyrille Sillans

Collaborative Innovation
Product Manager
URSSAF

Innovation Management

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Frequently asked questions

What is Innovation Portfolio Management and what are the key benefits?

Innovation Portfolio Management (IPM) is the structured process of overseeing, evaluating, and steering all innovation initiatives. From early ideas to market-ready projects, IPM ensures they collectively deliver strategic and financial value.

Rather than treating innovation as a series of isolated efforts, IPM provides governance and visibility so leaders can see where investments go, what’s performing, and what to scale or stop.

In a large organization, implementing IPM means:

  • Visibility and alignment: Centralize every initiative across business units, subsidiaries, or regions in one platform. This ensures innovation efforts support corporate priorities like digital transformation, sustainability, or diversification.
  • Control and consistency: Apply consistent evaluation criteria, workflows, and KPIs across programs while maintaining flexibility for local governance models.
  • Better decision-making: With scorecards, performance dashboards, and data analytics, innovation leaders can identify high-potential projects, eliminate redundancies, and optimize resource allocation.
  • Measurable ROI: Move beyond activity-based reporting to demonstrate tangible business impact, from new revenue streams to cost savings or time-to-market improvements.
  • Strategic agility: Continuously track innovation velocity and portfolio balance (incremental vs. disruptive) to adapt investments and stay competitive in a fast-changing environment.

Yumana makes this vision operational by giving large organizations a single source of truth to manage multiple portfolios, monitor KPIs in real time, and connect innovation performance directly to strategic outcomes and ROI.

What features should I look for in an Innovation Portfolio Management software to meet the needs of innovation teams?

An effective IPM solution must deliver strategic visibility, operational control, and data-driven insights.

Look for key capabilities like:

  • Multi-portfolio management: Oversee all innovation programs (corporate, continuous improvement, intrapreneurship, etc.) in a single, centralized platform, each following its own governance and workflow.
  • Kanban & stage-gate workflows: Easily visualize project progression, manage approvals, and monitor bottlenecks to keep momentum across the innovation funnel.
  • AI-powered evaluation: Use structured scorecards and the Darwin Innovation Potential Index to objectively assess value, maturity, and risk at each stage.
  • Portfolio analytics & data visualization: Analyze your entire portfolio through magic quadrants that reveal patterns, performance, and balance (core vs. adjacent vs. transformational).
  • Budget and resource tracking: Monitor investment levels, resource allocation, and financial outcomes against the original business case.
  • Risk management tools: Identify portfolio risks early, from technology readiness to market fit, and mitigate them through structured tracking.
  • Project management capabilities: Manage milestones, tasks, deliverables, and team collaboration directly within each project workspace.
  • Reporting automation: Generate instant PowerPoint summaries for executive briefings, and export ready-to-share reports in one click.

Yumana integrates all these capabilities into one intuitive ecosystem, helping innovation teams not just track activity, but manage innovation as a measurable business portfolio.

Can Yumana adapt to our internal governance model and tools?

Yes. Yumana is designed to fit your organization, not the other way around.
Workflows can be configured to match your exact governance model and stage-gate process. Scorecards, KPIs, and decision criteria can all be aligned with your internal frameworks.

Yumana integrates through APIs with your HR systems, Microsoft 365 Suite, and other enterprise tools to synchronize users, permissions, and data while maintaining full compliance and security.

Is Yumana suitable for organizations managing multiple innovation programs or business units?

Absolutely. Yumana is built for scale.
It supports multi-entity and multi-portfolio management, enabling each business unit or region to follow its own process while contributing to a unified company-wide view.
This allows innovation leaders to compare programs, benchmark performance, and share best practices across the organization.

What kind of support does Yumana offer during implementation and rollout?

Yumana combines robust technology with expert human support to ensure success from day one.
Our Customer Success team and Innovation Strategy experts partner with you to configure the platform, align governance with your corporate goals, and help you demonstrate measurable impact.

We provide:

  • Onboarding workshops to tailor the platform to your innovation framework and KPIs.
  • Training sessions to ensure innovation managers are fully autonomous in managing portfolios and evaluating initiatives.
  • Self-serve resources and a configuration wiki so your teams can easily adjust workflows, dashboards, and reports after go-live.
  • Expert guidance to help you design or revamp your corporate innovation program, drawing on best practices from hundreds of successful deployments.
  • Continuous support and optimization to fine-tune governance, analytics, and reporting as your organization’s maturity evolves.

With Yumana, you gain more than a platform. You gain a long-term partner committed to helping your teams build a structured, measurable, and self-sustaining innovation system.

How quickly can we expect measurable results after implementation?

Most organizations see measurable improvements in visibility and governance within the first 3 months of rollout.
With Yumana’s implementation framework, innovation teams can centralize data and run their first complete portfolio review within weeks.
ROI tracking dashboards start delivering insights as soon as projects are logged, allowing leaders to prove early impact and justify continued investment.

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