The imagination age is upon us. Organizations bold enough to actively embrace disruption today will define how industries work in the future.
Such organizations know that innovation is not only found through heavily funded R&D teams, rather it often lies with the dreamers in niche firms. They also know that identifying such small firms early in their evolution gives an exceptional competitive advantage – an opportunity to lead the disruption instead of being blindsided by it.
Avasant’s Tech Innovators research program is aimed at finding and highlighting such firms that use emerging digital technologies to build products and services of the future. They are pushing the boundaries for innovation by disrupting traditional business models. They bring together disruptive technologies for their chosen industry and services to enable business transformation.
TECH INNOVATORS PROGRAM
We are always on the lookout for firms that are leveraging emerging technologies to solve business challenges in never-seen-before ways. Annually, through our 600+ technology product vendor and service provider briefings, 1000+ enterprise interactions, and tech buyer insights from our panel of Distinguished Fellows, we identify a select group of firms that we believe will bring about the next phase of disruptive innovation. We then publish regular in-depth coverage of these firms to help prospective buyers identify and engage with the right innovative firms to accelerate their disruption journey.
COVERAGE AREAS
Our research shows two types of Tech Innovators – industry-specific and industry-agnostic.
Industry-specific Tech Innovators target particular industries and solve the grand challenges of those industries by using one or more new technologies.
Industry-agnostic Tech Innovators build the foundations for enterprise adoption of new technologies by converting these into enterprise-ready products and services.
Consequently, our research coverage is also aligned to these two categories:
Industry-Specific Research
- Healthcare
- Manufacturing
- Retail & CPG
- BFSI
Examples of Industry-Agnostic Research
- Holograms, AR/VR, and Digital Twins
- Quantum and Supercomputing
- Digital currencies
- Non-fungible tokens
- Advanced networks
- Biometric technology
- Connected humans
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Who can be an Avasant Tech Innovator?
We have set the following criteria for a firm to be chosen as an Avasant Tech Innovator:
- The offering could either be a product, service or product-led service
- Target market is midsize and large enterprises with at least two publicly disclosed implementations in production
- The company should have received at least one institutional round of funding
- The company revenue in most recent fiscal year should be less than USD $250 million
- The company should not have previously featured in any RadarView or RadarView Scan as this research is focused on early stage companies.
Tech Innovators can be nominated for coverage only by Avasant analysts or Avasant’s Distinguished Fellows. Our choice of coverage will be based on the potential of the offering to fundamentally disrupt or reimagine the way business is done.
Why Should Enterprises Be Interested in Avasant Tech Innovators?
Industries are changing rapidly as new technologies reach maturity and begin to get embedded into the DNA of nearly all industries. Having the right vendor or partner can mean the difference between leading the change or just being a follower. Our Tech Innovators research helps enterprises find the right firms early in their life cycle giving business leaders a competitive advantage.
