The award winning IdeaNet

Scientists such as Henry Chesbrough and Jeff Howe strived to find a better way to structure the initial Idea Phase or Fuzzy Front End of Innovation. Their statements fuelled the rise of Idea Management Software and Crowdsourcing tools. Innovation Factory and its founder Han Gerrits (Professor of E-commerce and Innovation at the VU University in Amsterdam) based their original steps into this field on scientific findings, later combining them with business lessons to create IdeaNet™.

To face the innovation challenge, the award-winning IdeaNet is a constantly evolving Idea
Management Software tool, with knowledge sharing capabilities. With IdeaNet™, innovation
becomes firmly embedded into your organization, raising both the quantity and quality of
ideas and concepts. Innovation becomes a way of life.

Benefits of using IdeaNet™

  • Gather ideas, expertise and knowledge to speed up innovation
  • Motivate your employees to participate and help one another
  • Connect knowledge by easily sharing documents, files and media
  • Invite specific people and form special groups
  • Customize, design and personalize your IdeaNet™
  • Post, vote, discuss, enhance and implement ideas
  • Run Idea Challenges as many times as you like

Sources: Gartner, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, McKinsey, Forrester and others.

IdeaNet™ functionalities and specifications

  • Mobile versions of IdeaNet™ run on IPhone, Android and Blackberry
  • Manage the community effectively with CMS, coordinator settings, ambassadors and groups
  • Dashboard control lets you control all aspects of an Idea Challenge
  • Easy access to all statistics of activity on IdeaNet™
  • IdeaNet™ is a SaaS solution, making sure you benefit from best practices in usability and design, without development costs and effort
  • IdeaNet™ design is fully customizable
  • Workflow connection to your intranet (for Single Sign On and widgets)
  • Authentication via your SharePoint and Active Directory (via SAML /ADLightweight)
  • Options to sign up with LinkedIn, Facebook, OpenID and others
  • Widget enables display of all activity on any site

For a demonstration or more information, contact Innovation Factory.

Connect Ideas to Knowledge to People