Accelerate

Every time you spin the Flywheel, your organization should get better at running efficient, frictionless innovation.

Innovation systems should minimize overhead, not add to it. They're there to support the entire business and save valuable time, which can be spent identifying and acting on valuable opportunities.

Our approach also aims to empower teams and organizations that do not have a full-time innovation department by freeing up time anywhere in the process.

From automation to bulk actions to fast onboarding and AI. So you and your team can concentrate on the real work of innovating.

Embed

Identify opportunities to collect ideas where your audience is instead of asking your audience to go where your home for ideas is.

With Ideanote, you can embed widgets on your intranet, website, or from within Microsoft Teams. You can even let people submit ideas from their mobile devices by sending them a link or printing posters with QR codes.

Integrate

Once you've planned the Flywheel, identify opportunities to reduce manual data entry or context switching.

Does your SSO solution include information on department and language that you would like to filter your data by? If so, integrate it.

Do you work with selected projects using your project management tools? Establish a two-way sync so ideas can be pushed there with a click, and ROI results land inside your home for ideas.

Automate

Set workflow automation for your innovation process so your ideas keep moving forward. This can include thank-you emails to contributors, the automatic moving of ideas across phases based on specific conditions, and more.

Make sure you're hitting a sensible balance where setting up the automation is not becoming more complex than the time you'll save.

Start small, with 1-2 automation, and add more for your second or third Flywheel as your system starts working for you, not the other way around.

AI

Use the power of artificial intelligence to enrich your data and get inspired. Link up similar ideas, use automatic translations, or get automatic categorization and sentiment analysis.

Anything that gives you a more enriched and faster way to take action on ideas.

Templates

Once you've found a process that works for you, publish it as a time-saving template that you and others across your organization can reuse.

Learn and Repeat

Summarize learnings with the Initiator, looking at what went well and what did not.

Build out your playbooks. Our innovation flywheel is a great starting point, but you might adapt it over time. Add your processes, failsafe, and best practice tips in a central document you build over time.

Once you feel ready, launch your next Flywheel with purpose.