Contributors

You know who wants to innovate and what ideas you want to collect. For your next stage, you'll scout for contributors, the people who will submit ideas.

You can designate your team, a department, the entire company, or even some of your more engaged customers, partners, or clients as contributors. It's up to you.

Define Contributors

Contributors understand how your mission works towards a purpose they identify with—and they're excited about it! This excitement drives them to submit quality ideas, explore other ways of contributing, and understand the problem at hand more deeply.

Perfect contributors are heavily invested in your company, emotionally connect with the purpose, and care about your success. You can cast a wide net or be specific, but research shows that having a diverse group of contributors makes for more exciting and better solutions.

What kind of people you ask depends on what kind of ideas you are looking for, too.Are you looking for radical new product ideas? You could ask both internal teams and external clients. Want to cut costs in the HR department? You don't need to ask your customers.

Define Access

You've added the Contributors to your mission. But how much should they be able to see? The best practice is to allow them to submit ideas, see other ideas, and like and comment on on incoming ideas.

You can be more restrictive if you have legitimate concerns about privacy, IP rights, or destructive behaviour.Access can easily be managed in the sharing setting of every idea collection and defined for individual Members, Teams, or even the entire Workspace.