An Australian software startup continues to make waves in technology news. EarlyBirds won the honour of the Most Innovative B2B Startups Innovation Platform at the Global Excellence Awards in 2022. In both 2023 and 2024, they won the Global Open Innovation Platform of the Year too. That’s on top of a long list of accolades including mention in the Australian Business Journal and The Silicon Review.

So, what does EarlyBirds offer that sets them above the competition? Their recognition in a Startup Bubble article summarizes the reasons well – collaboration, connection, open innovation, and beneficial partnerships.

What EarlyBirds Offers

EarlyBirds is committed to innovation, collaboration, and business success on a global scale. As a result, their offerings help organisations accelerate innovation, plot a path towards change, and connect with the technologies and talent they need.

Beneficial Collaborative Partnerships

EarlyBirds’ innovation ecosystem helps innovators, Subject Matter Experts, and organisations create beneficial partnerships. These partnerships can accelerate the adoption of the latest disruptive technology.

Innovative companies find organisations that need what they offer and organisations connect with talented creators for new and advanced technologies. Both parties benefit and both grow and thrive.

Impactful Solutions

EarlyBirds actively identifies technological solutions in both the private and public sectors. Their proprietary open innovation and industry intelligence platform connects innovators and early adopters to solve problems.

New and disruptive innovations can solve problems in various operations, address difficult challenges, and shape the future of technology within organisations to ensure they remain relevant.

Innovation for Sustainable Growth

Sustainable growth is key to long-term success. It blends environmental stewardship, social responsibility, and economic wisdom. This involves creating repeatable processes and ethical decisions.

Luckily, EarlyBirds makes it easier for private and public organisations to discover and apply cutting-edge technologies that can help them create these processes. They can also help businesses monitor and maintain solid business practices, while providing transparency.

Competitive Advantages

As a software startup, EarlyBirds realizes first-hand organisations must stay ahead of their competition to stay in business. That’s why they focus on innovation as a strategic resource that can help business stay ahead.

By actively curating innovative solutions, early adopter businesses benefit from the best and most suitable solutions the tech industry has to offer.

Bridge Between Needs & Technology

All too often, organisations need cutting-edge solutions for their specific industry, but they don’t know where to look.

Fortunately, EarlyBirds’ platform offers a unique opportunity for businesses to connect and collaborate with innovators and Subject Matter Experts in various technological fields, making it possible to systematically bridge the technology gap.

Software Startup Offers a Variety of Access Methods

EarlyBirds realizes no two organisations are the same. Consequently, they offer a variety of methods to access a diverse range of advanced technologies and talent. All provide the following benefits:

• Increased productivity
• Improved operational efficiency
• Enhanced competitiveness
• Connections to the best Subject Matter Experts and innovators available
• Simplified process

EarlyBirds Skill Identification Program

The skill identification program offers potential solutions to organisation to find and retain the best in the current talent pool. The program is overseen by veterans in the industry with a high level of credibility and expertise that benefits all parties.

The program provides actionable data-driven recommendations fuelled by cutting-edge technologies, such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, and predictive analytics.

By doing a deep dive into the necessary skill sets, organisations can find those with technical and managerial expertise to take them to the next level.

EarlyBirds Innovation Ecosystem

Our award-winning Innovation Ecosystem allows both innovation and strategic thinking in all areas of a business, whatever the technical or business challenge or potential opportunity your organisation wants to explore.

We unite Innovators, Early Adopters and Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) to fuel rapid innovative adoption and business evolution. Early Adopters are leaders eager to identify new and disruptive technologies. They want to seize opportunities, solve business challenges, or create new products and services.

Our Ecosystem has a data pool of over 5.0 million global innovations across many industries with solutions that may already address your organisation’s challenges. Alternatively, organisations can list their challenges and request solutions from innovators.

EarlyBirds Ecosystem Maps

EarlyBirds offers Ecosystem Maps to help organizations address pressing issues. Each contains startups, scaleups, and mature companies involved in specific themes and sub-themes so organisations can plot a path towards innovation. The maps also track numerous daily and historical news and media articles from across the world.

EarlyBirds Explorer Program

The Explorer Program is tailored towards those who need innovation as a service to supplement existing innovation programs, or to conduct innovation projects when required. It is designed to speed up the process of technological innovation for the organisation as a service.

The Explorer Program includes several features including quarterly and monthly innovation days; regular webinars to help stimulate innovation in the organisation; a focus on types of innovations; a platform enterprise license; and a nominated SME for the business.

EarlyBirds Challenger Program

The Challenger Program focuses on a single organisational or technical challenge. It looks for the most relevant innovators that meet your organisational, technical, and risk requirements.

The program is run by an EarlyBirds’ Subject Matter Expert who identifies your key issues. The SME then searches the data pool to identify and curate options for further evaluation. The most suitable option is chosen and the SME drafts a roadmap of next steps, POC, trial, or implementation.

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Discover why EarlyBirds is such a successful startup by connecting with us. Please register at https://earlybirds.io/ or request a consultation if you are unsure of which of our offerings best suits your needs. We use an individualized approach to ensure you find the best possible solutions.

Our experience extends to the Food Industry, Retail, Healthcare, Operations & Maintenance, Manufacturing, Finance & Insurance, Energy, Education, Cybersecurity, Sovereign Nations, the Public Sector, and many other areas.

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