Tools

Much more than merely a suggestion box 2.0

To facilitate Idea Management in your organisation, Innovation Factory can help you deploy IdeaNet. Unlike many other tools, this online web application enables you to create an actual Idea Community

Features

• Capture, categorise, and save all ideas in your organisation
• Review ideas by subject matter experts
• Let people from all over the organisation enrich (comments on) and rate ideas
• Define selection criteria and select the most promising ideas
• Exporting and reporting
• Have your custom design applied
• Run Idea Management Challenge-based or continuous

Because IdeaNet is a web application, it is accessible from every location worldwide via a secure Internet connection. IdeaNet can be customised to fit your situation.

Experience

Thanks to years of experience at many organisations, IdeaNet has grown into the most integral solution for Idea Management in any organisation.
We’ve been deploying it for a wide range organisations in various sectors. Without exception, our clients express their content with the ease of use compared to other solutions.

Developing an idea or concept involves contributions from several people. To facilitate this, Innovation Factory has developed Incubators; dedicated and compact environments where team members can share, communicate, and collaborate.

Incubators provide a common meeting ground for bringing together people from different disciplines, locations, departments, or companies. And, since information is accessible for everyone, new team members can easily join in and get up to speed, and project work can be easily monitored by management or clients.

Incubators are very user friendly, especially when compared to the large-scale collaboration and document management platforms currently used in many organisations. But what really sets Incubators apart is their focus on the people in the team, and motivating them by displaying activity.

In our work, it is our experience that improving the innovativeness of organisations requires significant levels of communication on the subject. Innovation is spurred not only by communication about innovation initiatives but also by exchanging ideas, news, inspiration, and knowledge between different members and units of the organisation.

In order to support these communication needs, and from our experience with various organisations, we developed the InnovationHub. The InnovationHub offers the following features:

• Social networking
• Knowledge sharing
• Forum
• Content management
• Newsletters
• Projects
• Customised design

If you wish to make innovation vibrant in your organisation, the InnovationHub can be of great help.

The InnovationQuiz measures how innovative the participants are: their Innovation Quotient. Questions are a mix of “the latest facts about innovation”, “general knowledge about innovation”, and “an innovative personality”. The participants’ answers determine their innovativeness.

Scores of all participants are shown on a special page, or projected on a large screen. Optionally, the InnovationQuiz also provides an analysis of the scores of all the participants, and insight into the speed with which your innovation virus spreads.

The InnovationQuiz is used to spread the message of innovation throughout your organisation, or as a fun element at any exhibition, fair, or party.