Roadmapping and Digital Tools: A Systematic Literature Review

Roadmapping emerged in technology-based businesses to foster the alignment between strategic objectives and new products and technologies. Along with roadmapping, ICT tools, software, and data processing techniques have been used to make it more effective and efficient. Despite the advance of digital technologies, there needs to be more clarity regarding their usage and impacts on roadmapping implementation. Thus, this article aims to perform a systematic literature review focusing on these digital tools supporting the roadmapping process. It combines bibliometric and content analysis to address a sample of 61 articles. The results indicate that text mining has been widely explored in the roadmapping preparation stage, while digital tools focused on collaborative roadmapping activities have gained less prominence. This work's main contributions are mapping the roadmapping digital tools and their interaction with each activity in the process. Besides, some research topics are highlighted as a future agenda for roadmapping assisted by digital tools.