Idea Center
Benefits
Benefits at organizational level
Corporate capability
- Provides important innovation capability
- Creates a portfolio of ideas
- Enables cross-pollination of ideas and multidisciplinary collaboration
- Unlocks tacit knowledge
- Provides a tool to manage your corporate front-end of the innovation through KPIs, reports and statistics
Culture
- Fosters a culture that encourages innovation
- Gives your people the trust, space and freedom to be creative
- Creates an innovation corporate community
- Encourages employees to operationalize their market-oriented behaviors
Human resources
- Ideas and creative individuals get organization wide exposure
- Identify creative talents inside an organization
- Stimulates creative competition and maximizes the creative potential of employees
Cost
- Reduces front-end innovation process costs
Benefits for your innovation process
Structures your front-end innovation process
- Gain a structured and systematized collaborative process for stimulating, capturing at all levels, evaluating and selecting best ideas for your organization, from inside and outside
- Selectively engage your employees through periodic idea contests and challenges with a specific organizational objective (eg. Cost reduction, Stocks reduction, Operational efficiency increase, Product improvement, Customer satisfaction ideas, New products, Product names, etc.)
- Clear evaluation procedure for each idea type and domain (product, service, process and organizational idea)
Creates a dynamic innovation pipeline
- Ideas move from hard drives and emails to a dedicated innovation space
- Measure and optimize innovation process performance through detailed analytics
Improve front-end innovation process efficiency
- Accelerated concept to implementation cycle
- Increase the number of ideas in the funnel