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How Do You Show Leadership the Value of Your Innovation Program?
Your team submits hundreds of ideas each year. Some get implemented. But when executives ask what all this innovation work is worth, you need numbers.
Ideanote gives you the tools to track and report the financial impact of your innovation program. You track cost savings, hours saved, and other numerical values directly on each idea. When an idea moves from concept to implementation, the data moves with it.
Track What Leadership Cares About
Add custom fields to capture the metrics your executives want to see. Record dollar amounts saved, time recovered, or revenue generated. Attach these values to individual ideas and watch them roll up into program-wide reports.
Turn Data Into Reports
Generate impact charts that analyze your implemented ideas by status and goal. Export these reports to share with decision-makers or pull data into Power BI for deeper analysis. You control who sees which dashboards, so you give executives exactly the view they need.
Connect Ideanote with your project management tools to track ideas from submission through long-term results. This creates one record of truth for your entire innovation program. When leadership asks about ROI, you have the answer ready.
How do I track the financial impact of implemented ideas?
You add numerical fields to your ideas to capture values like dollars saved or hours saved. When ideas move to a completed status, these values feed into impact reports that show your total return on investment.
The system lets you define which metrics matter most to your organization. You choose what to track and Ideanote aggregates the data into charts you share with leadership.
What types of ROI metrics does Ideanote track?
Ideanote tracks any numerical value you define. Most organizations track cost savings in dollars, time saved in hours, or revenue generated. You decide which metrics align with your innovation goals.
Each idea holds these values as custom fields. When you mark ideas as implemented or completed, the platform calculates totals across all ideas to show your program's overall impact.
How do I show leadership the results of our innovation program?
Ideanote generates impact reports and charts that summarize the ROI from your implemented ideas. These reports show numerical totals like total dollars saved or hours reclaimed across your innovation initiatives.
You also create custom scorecard charts that break down completed ideas by innovation goal or status. Share these reports directly with executives to demonstrate how your innovation program contributes to business objectives.
How do I connect idea outcomes to our company goals or OKRs?
You organize ideas into collections aligned with specific company goals or strategic priorities. Custom scorecards then show how many ideas were completed per goal and the ROI delivered for each strategic area.
This approach gives you a clear line of sight from your overall innovation strategy through individual collections to the quantifiable impact of completed ideas. Leadership sees both the volume of innovation and the business value tied to each priority.
Does Ideanote have a field to document what happened after we implemented an idea?
Yes. You set up result fields and status workflows that capture post-implementation outcomes. When an idea reaches a completed status, your team documents what was delivered and enters the impact metrics like cost savings or time saved.
This creates an accountability loop. Every implemented idea has a record of what was done and what value resulted, giving you a complete before-and-after view of your innovation efforts.
How do I export ROI data for presentations or other tools?
Ideanote lets you export data to spreadsheets for use in presentations or board meetings. You also connect the platform to tools like Power BI if your organization prefers to build custom dashboards in those systems.
Impact charts generated inside Ideanote are designed to be leadership-ready. You share them directly or pull the underlying data into whatever format your stakeholders need.
How do I restrict ROI dashboards so only executives see them?
Ideanote has role-based access controls. You limit who sees specific reports and dashboards, so sensitive financial data or strategic impact metrics only reach the stakeholders who need them.
This means your wider team submits and develops ideas while executives access aggregated ROI reports. You control visibility at every level of your innovation program.
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