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Transform Your Technology Roadmaps, R&D Strategy, and M&A.
Use the Capability Success Framework to evaluate, grade, understand and move forward on technology and service opportunities.
Technology Investment Advisors
DO YOU NEED TIA?
The TIA framework is a patented COMPREHENSIVE method for measuring, predicting and discussing TECHNOLOGY INVESTMENT decisions, adding VALUE to both Sell side and Buy side analysis.
Traditional investment / sale readiness analysis focuses on technology or finance (separately). There is no holistic measure to quantify – and rectify – all aspects of delivering a solution to the market.
Does your organization’s products/services fall short in the marketplace due to:
- Timing mismatch – technologies not ready at the right time at the right cost?
- Risk Imbalance – visionary goals not aligned to financial or technical reality?
- Technology Shortfall – Maturity, Cost, availability not able to support roadmaps?
- Employee Retention - Challenges linked to imbalanced policies and processes?
- Go-to-Market Fail – Competing stories for market strategy and distribution?
Decisions that strategically balance Vision, Mission, risk, resources, technologies (organic and partnered/licensed) are the key to success – TIA’s INVESTMENT READINESS FRAMEWORK Helps both buy side and sell side users identify areas of risk, strength and weakness
in the three domains of success
- Technology/IP,
- Market/distribution,
- Strategy/finance.
About Technology Investment Advisors
Our Expertise
We Are: An evolution of Intelligent Innovation, LLC – a globally recognized, certified innovation consultancy founded in 1994. From the Intelligent Innovation experience, we founded Technology Investment Advisors LLC – TIA uses a more holistic view of the success factors that help the best companies grow toward market leading capability offerings.
TIA comes along side our clients and puts these success factors into an easy to use, graphical model – which helps facilitate open discussions: from C-Suite to the factory floor, from the distribution channel partners to the R&D roadmap and from the service delivery personnel to the employee retention discussions.
In this patented method, every aspect of the organization is easily graded, modeled and viewed – gaps and overlaps, strengths and weaknesses are uncovered.
The 3D Technology Maturity Analysis asks and grades 16 questions in each domain providing a comprehensive and industry relative grade and graphic for discussion and decision making. BUY and SELL side both benefit from discussing our open, graphical view of Strengths and Opportunities
Our Approach
We believe in taking a customized approach to each of our clients. We work closely with you to understand your unique needs and challenges, and develop solutions that are tailored to your specific situation.
Our model uses a multi-industry functional flow down that customizes the main grading criteria and weights by 'for profit / not for profit / government ' and then further by 'service / product' and further by industry. This customization is the first step to using the Capability Success Framework.
The Framework provides structure to the analysis and discussions. By it’s nature it includes elements of Vision, Mission and Strategy and weighted risk.
•The CORE evaluator includes the remaining support elements such as Tactics and Operations
These are encapsulated in the Technology Investment Readiness Framework (TIRF). TIRF is not the ‘answer’ – but rather – it provides a visual, open data rich atmosphere to discuss R&D roadmaps, Investment Strategies and opportunities without bias.
Why use TIA?
We are impartial and our process is open and collaborative.
We look from the bottom up, and top down. Our process drives both buy side and sell side to eventually think about adjacent markets and broader implications (solutions to capabilities) of a technology. Valuations are often improved by including the contribution of adjacent markets, IP portfolios (or the lack of), etc.
Technology Investment Advisors LLC combines individuals with experience and advanced degrees in the fields of physics, optics, engineering, factory automation, AI/ML, law, IP law, technical publications, employee retention modeling, M&A, IR&D, DARPA, ARPA, DOD, MOD, A&D, Automotive, F1, Propulsion, Biomedical.
We have helped organizations develop new products and revive old product lines in diverse fields ranging from handicapped homes to industrial cooling and from race cars to hospitals. Our members hold board positions, have advised US Congress, NATO, tens of multi-national companies, schools, churches and are named on over 300 patents.
Traditional investment readiness analysis (diligence) often focuses on technology or finance (separately). There is no holistic measure to quantify – and rectify – all aspects of delivering a solution to the market.
- Traditional TRL’s are OK to measure a narrow view of technology readiness
- Most measures do not consider phase, timing, IP and other aspects of technology development and can be very misleading
- Traditional TRL’s do not include business “capability” - the ability to actually deliver a solution to the market that the market wants to consume.
Delivering a business capability (the vision component) is more profitable than delivering an individual technology (the mission component)or solution containing a technology
- A Capability, comprised of multiple delivered solutions is more ‘valuable’ to the market and investors, typically has higher margins and is a worthy 'visionary' discussion goal - TIA shows you how to incorporate these powerful theories.
The Investment Readiness Framework focuses on all three domains of a business capability, supported by a separate CORE measure – this provides a more relevant forecast of success.
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