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Research

Idea Management

Project Tracking

Expert Location

Rewards & Recognition

Analytics

Innovation Financials

Archive

• Weblogs allow participants to track emerging trends, competition and areas of opportunity in a secure, shared environment
• Research Blogs ensure organizations stay abreast of market developments while maintaining a permanent record of all research

• Highly-configurable idea ranking engine allows managers to rapidly identify the most promising Innovations in an organization
• Proprietary ranking-system technology can be implemented according to managerial needs and specific areas of opportunity such as unsolicited ideas from employees, customers and suppliers
• Idea Management accelerates identification of viable concepts while ensuring non-viable proposals are discontinued early

• Flexible, phase-based tracking system enables efficient project management in the Innovation pipeline
• Provides managers with visibility into all current projects and their progress
• Project tracking ensures that on-going projects are strategically aligned, properly vetted at each step and stay on-track throughout the implementation process

• Easy-to-use Search function allows users to locate experts for assistance with questions/problems
• Users can search expert profiles and content in the Innovation Management system to locate experts, regardless of location or department within the organization

• End-to-end solution that tracks individual contributions to the innovation program
• Points are accumulated for selected activities and achievements.
• Rewards & Recognition tracks redemption for gifts, awards or cash to ensure that key players in the Innovation process are recognized and proper records are maintained

• Tightly-integrated financials capture and summarize the net financial impact of all Innovation related activities including time applied, out-of-pocket expenditures, implementation costs, rewards, cost-savings, and revenues
• Innovation financials ensure that the real costs of ‘unstructured work’ are captured and that forecasted cash flows can be compared against actual cash flows

• Intuitive metrics and analytics make the Innovation process more visible and manageable
• Configurable reports and activity dashboards ensure managers have the information they need to make informed decisions on managing the Innovation process

• Permanent, searchable archive stores a record of all research posts, ideas, projects, tasks and decisions
• Reduces re-work when staff or roles change
• Useful for locating origin of successful projects and documenting the decision process on why projects were continued/discontinued