Open Innovation

OPEN INNOVATION SOFTWARE

The Brightest Minds Are Outside Your Four Walls

Engage your customers, startups, or the public at large to solve your biggest problems and create the future. 

“An organization should have effective idea generation and development processes to create new offerings, both by generating a broad and diverse set of ideas and by converting these ideas into profitable business concepts.”

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HOW IT WORKS

Software Designed to Save Time and Maximize Engagement

An easy-to-use platform that supports your employee ideation program from idea collection to measured results.

Collect Ideas from One Team or Your Entire Company

Invited participants submit ideas and solutions. Easily upload files, images, and video and collaborate in real time. 

  • Duplicate Idea Detection

    Automatically detect and display similar ideas while a user is posting their solution to avoid duplicates and improve collaboration. 

  • Real Time Chat

    Collaborate with participants on posted ideas in real time to iterate quickly and efficiently.

  • Customizable Submission Form

    Customize the fields that are collected on the submission of new ideas, solutions, or projects. 

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Automatically Route Ideas to Owners and Evaluate Ideas on Custom Criteria

Automatically route ideas to the right stakeholders inside of your organization based on information provided during submission. 

  • Smart Routing

    Automatically route ideas and assign ownership based on department, location, or category. 

  • Action Item Notifications

    Automatically notify owners, submitters, and other relevant stakeholders when they've been assigned to perform actions on ideas. 

  • Past Due Reminders

    Hold owners accountable by automatically sending them reminders for past due evaluations and reviews.

Track and Implement Ideas While Measuring the Metrics that Matter

Understand your organizations current innovation health, activity, and impact in under 30 seconds.

  • ROI and Outcome Analytics

    Easily compare solutions based on value, cost, and time to implement to see the real time projected versus actual performance of your program.

  • Engagement Metrics

    Track the percentage of your community who are actively participating in your community and automatically prompt them to engage.

  • Custom Report Builder

    Create custom reports to visualize the metrics that matter to your program.

Analytics on Employee Ideation Programs

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FEATURES AND FUNCTIONALITY

Designed to Save Time and Maximize Impact

Workflows and Stages

Customize the steps and approvals ideas go through from collection to implementation.

Challenges to Target Feedback

Capture targeted feedback around specific topics related to organizational goals.

Annoucements and Notifications

Automatically notify submitters and relevant stakeholders on updates and progress. 

Custom Scorecards

Create scorecards with custom criteria and automatically assign judges to evaluate submissions.

Gamification and Prizes

Incentivize participation with gamification, a leaderboard, and prizes for participation.

Participation Analytics

Track participations and activity in your hackathon by group and location.

"I was pleasantly surprised at how easy it was to use. We're all busy and don't need something that's cumbersome."

Vanessa Taylor

Vanessa Taylor

Medical Home Manager at Sanford

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ROI Calculator

Calculate Ideawake's value from time savings, increased engagement, and more implemented ideas.
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Build vs. Buy Calculator

Does buying a dedicated solution make sense, or would it be better to build it ourselves? Use our build vs. buy calculator to find out.

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