Co-create solutions with customers, partners or suppliers with Ideanote's collaborative Open Innovation platform.
What if the next big idea isn't in your team but from a customer?
A hands-off approach of just waiting for ideas left at your doorstep won't work. If your companies remains closed to external innovation it will grow slower and will be overtaken by competitors.
Today's consumers are smart and creative and they expect you to listen to their opinions - instead of being left behind.
If your company is not listening to the needs of the market you end up building products and service that aren't needed.
Without outside influence your teams focus on just one product line for too long without reimagining what's possible.
"Ideanote enables us to actively engage with our members in real time, while contributing to a better understanding of their wants and needs"
Go from creativity from the few towards towards systematic creativity from the many and give your company a culture of openness.
Involving external audiences helps your company stay ahead of competitors, survive new threats and ride the wave of emerging trends.
Go from succeeding together towards succeeding more together with more people. Build a bridge between people who are not domain experts but have radical and creative ideas and the experts that can turn them into a reality.
If you’re looking for the recipe for success, then this is the secret sauce right here. Ideanote is not your everyday innovation management software but an entirely new standard of launching goal-driven idea collections within a playful and easy-to-use platform. Ideanote’s formula has been battle-tested to perfection by some of the world’s most innovative companies, and you can launch your first goal-driven idea collection with Ideanote today.
Anonymous means that a person's name or identity will not been revealed or given or has been withheld. It can be useful to collect anonymous ideas to make sure that ideas are rated fairly and that people are not judged for their ideas.
Anonymity is a big deal these days. The Internet has become a place where people can share their ideas without fear of reprisal.
Anonymity is a huge topic in today’s society. People are constantly worried about being tracked online or having their personal information stolen. They want to remain private, even though they often don’t realize that anonymity isn't always a good thing.
When you have a company suggestion box for ideas some people might feel more comfortable coming forward with important ideas if they can submit ideas anonymously.
The benefits of using an anonymous idea suggestion box for your company are many:
With Ideanote you can decide if people should be allowed to submit anonymously and to what degree. You can enforce anonymity or let people submit partly anonymous ideas that management can see. You can even let people change their ideas from anonymous back to identifiable ideas that are tied to their names at a later point if relevant.
People who submit ideas will always be able to edit their ideas but their ideas are safe from being identified. Anonymous ideas are not counted in summaries that could identify the owner, they are not shown on the profile of a user and the identity of the submitter is not revealed in the API and integrations either.
Ideas can be submitted by anyone and are stored for as long as you want. Even better, Ideanote comes with an entire idea funnel so you can also prioritize and develop ideas.
Anonymous idea submission is a great way to get employee feedback. But it's important to make sure that the right people can access this tool. For example, managers shouldn't be able to view all ideas submitted by their subordinates. If you allow anonymous idea submissions, you need to put safeguards in place so that no one gets hurt.
If you use Ideanote, you can easily add anonymous idea submission to your website. You can then choose whether users should be able to submit ideas anonymously or not.
You can also implement anonymous idea submission through other methods such as emailing your employees, posting on social media sites or creating a survey.
Ideanote is a free tool that makes it easy to create an anonymous idea submission system. It doesn't matter how old or new your site is; Ideanote works perfectly well with any website, intranet or as a standalone web app.
Enjoy a sleek and modern responsive mobile experience that is simple and fun to use, but still packs a punch with cutting-edge innovation technology right at the tips of your fingers. With our PWA you get the best of all worlds in a no-comprise app experience that is both opinionated about how to share ideas online, but also puts you in the driver's seat to create a custom experience for your audience.
If you want to involve people in innovation in today’s privacy-conscious world, you will need a platform that complies with modern data and privacy regulation. Ideanote follows privacy and security by design principles and handles personal identifiable information with the necessary care. We provide a Data Processing Agreement for our EU customers.
Use your crowd to react faster and launch better and longer lasting solutions.
Product life cycles are getting shorter and competition is right around the corner. Open Innovation with Ideanote lets you speed up your innovation by involving partners and end-users while making sure you are building towards actual customer needs.
Use Custom Phases to build a workflow that fits your needs. There’s no wrong way to use Ideanote, and every idea collection can support different formats, processes, and journeys for your ideas to travel through. Custom Phases make it easy to experiment as you go and optimize your workflow over time. Need a hidden phase to review ideas? Check. How about multiple evaluation phases for different groups of experts? Easy. Maybe a phase to display completed ideas and measure their impact? No problem. You can add it all at the click of a button.
Let the AI algorithm shower you with valuable insights about on-going trends, new opportunities, and potential collaborations - all on a global level and across multiple languages. Match similar ideas with each other and let people share ownership as they grow an idea together, or create clusters of multiple ideas for better knowledge-sharing and more effective project management.
Create value through innovation instead of squeezing costs harder than the competition.
Open Innovation with Ideanote empowers you to identify and design the solutions your customers need the most.
Co-create with customers and become more customer centric with a platform that lets you build your own thriving Open Innovation community.
Ideanote's Open Innovation solution lets you get a fast turnaround from launching challenge to identifying winning solutions.
Create an innovation community and an innovation brain with a network of resources inside and outside your company.
Get a full cycle platform from launching challenges to managing submission, evaluation, feedback and KPI tracking.
We believe that things that are created with, for, and by a community are more successful – they’re loved more. And it’s just a better way of working.
When it comes to customer experience, companies are stuck in the past. Customers expect to be part of creating their own experiences around your brand. Delivering on those expectations is a constant challenge but every step closer is worth a lot both on the bottom-line and in goodwill. Ideanote represents a whole new approach to making open innovation more simple, fun and efficient for everyone. So you have the freedom to build the best customer experiences.
Open innovation is a cornerstone in any sound innovation strategy, yet getting started can be a daunting task. Ideanote is rated the easiest innovation platform to implement and helps you drive your open innovation with ease. With Ideanote your department can set up idea collections on demand and the crowd helps you develop and prioritize ideas. It gives you the agility to innovate and the power to scale.
Ideanote is easy-to-use and engaging and lets you adopt an Open Innovation culture capable of reimagining markets, technologies and more with ease.
Reach out to an audience, build your community and find solutions to internal and external challenges fast. With Ideanote your department can set up idea collections on demand and the crowd helps you develop and prioritize ideas. It gives you the agility to innovate and the power to scale.
Power your Open Innovation with a platform that is flexible and fully customizable and that offers a transparent process that leads to results and keeps people engaged.
Open innovation is the paradigm that businesses should connect with outside sources of creativity to benefit from a mix of external and internal ideas, technologies or paths to market.
Open innovation brings the best of the internal and external resources together. It allows for mutually beneficial connections of diverse groups that stimulate new ways thinking, create more effective collaborations, and disrupt markets.
Open Innovation benefits companies by harnessing the innovation of others and having more clarity on where their company, consumers nd the market is going. Collaborating together with other stakeholders creates better, faster outcomes.
With Open Innovation an idea that is created to improve a company’s product and service can come from anywhere. The ideas that a company collects and evaluates can help reduce costs and risk and time to markets as the ideas come straight from the source - partners, consumers or customers.
Often, employees may have negative attitudes around open innovation because they don’t understand the positive impact it can have on their company. While not all ideas will be high quality, utilizing the ideas of others can legitimately expose your company to new solutions that work better and represent market trends better than anything you could have created internally. It only needs one good idea among a hundred to make it worth the effort.
If your organization feels skeptical of open innovation, try sharing stories of other companies that have found successful solutions or developed new products with the help of Open Innovation. If other bigger companies are successfully implementing these processes, why would you have a hard time in your own company? Spread the good things that Open Innovation can bring, as well as the pitfalls.
Regardless of which aspect of new open innovation project you are working on, you need to be mindful of your participants' legal rights and obligations. Having a legal best practice like terms and conditions for participations set in place before beginning an open innovation effort is vital.
Intellectual property law intends to ensure an inventor is credited while also allowing them to profit from their ideas. With open innovation, however, it is possible that the innovator will need to rescind their rights to an idea.
Companies or individuals submitting solutions must be sure that the process is fair and transparent and that the legal bases and ownership terms are covered.
If you want to change your audience’s behavior, incentivize them for innovation. Consider whether your rewards reflect the customer experience you are trying to instill in your team and the values of your customers.
Rewards can entice engagement, increase productivity and encourage participation in the program. For example, a company might reward their ideators with holidays and cash to help improve participation rates. However, this can create less cohesion as people only saw value in submitting ideas, instead of crafting them or collaborating with others.
As with rewards, sometimes incentives can be a double edged sword. When motivating people to sustain a project, avoid the use of extrinsic rewards and focus instead on favoring intrinsic motivations such as an idea collection driven by a higher purpose or the chance of self development. Sometimes it is enough to simply just recognize contributors with light praise and appreciation as well as celebrating successes.
Often, the person submitting the idea will already have some valuable opinions and knowledge about how to proceed. They are most likely eager to discuss their ideas, as they have made time to research it. This can be highly rewarding for you and the participant.
In summary extrinsic monetary rewards are best for menial tasks (e.g. rating ideas) not creative tasks (formulating ideas). Introducing extrinsic rewards can spike activity but undermine long-term motivation and engagement.
There are many things that can make a good idea. A good idea is one that solves a problem, creates something new or improves an existing solution. They are often unique and can in the best cases be expressed in simple understandable terms. A good idea is not just original but also simple and practical to implement. It should be well researched so the implementation process goes smoothly. A good idea often has a clear goal which makes it easier for others to understand what's being suggested. Ideas that are important can make a significant positive impact on society and can improve the lives of people. When trying to come up with good ideas, think about how it will impact people and our nature.
What separates a bad idea from a great idea is also it context and timing. Inventions such as the car, computer, and television were considered radical ideas when they first appeared because they were new but that did not make them bad ideas. Suggesting to invent the TV now would be be a little late - just as it would be hopeless to suggest drinking more water to solve thirst, if there is no water around.
In the end, the power of a good idea is dependent on the execution. A great idea in your head or on paper means much less if it is never carried out in the real world.
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