Tour Switchboard

Develop Ideas.

Get from 10,000 ideas to 500... to 50... to 5!

Collaborative online brainstorming with WebStorm is an essential ingredient to increasing your company's potential to innovate. But it also could prove overwhelming if no structure or process is in place to manage the information that you collect. Crowdsourcing ideas from large numbers of employees, customers, and groups provides an initial prioritization and community feedback forum that can offer valuable insight, but rarely is it enough to make real business decisions and allocate capital. Innovation success largely depends on what you do with ideas once collected, and the ability to process and organize vast amounts of information from various sources quickly while eliminating "noise" early, can make all the difference in driving execution.

By transitioning ideas into proposals, Switchboard lets businesses use familiar guidelines and project-level thoroughness to gauge opportunity and manage potential. Proposals outline opportunity and risk, so that the right ones can turn into funded projects with allocated budgets and resources. Switchboard automates the routing and refinement of proposals across silos and geographies to cross functional teams, ensuring proposals are fully vetted and turn into actionable projects that keep the innovation pipeline full.

Easy to Set Up. Easy to Use.

Switchboard is easy to set up and boasts an intuitive interface that users will find instantly familiar.
Administrators can:

Turn ideas into proposals. Organize using collection folders and proposal portfolios. Link/tag related ideas. Set up automated reminders. Keep senior-level executives up-to-date and informed on progress.	Identify and invite key decision makers. Form proposal specific evaluation teams. Motivate participation through private team collaboration. Get subject matter experts involved at the right time with flexible routing & workflows.
Design custom scorecards using a self-service widget. Distribute evaluation tasks and make requests. Set up, track and compare multiple evaluation rounds.	Extract reporting data from every step of proposal development & evaluation. Utilize real-time reporting and track vital metrics.

Switchboard is an effective tool because it saves time, promotes concentrated collaboration among stakeholders, and increases your chances of identifying potential earlier, saving time, resources, and money on crucial early stage idea development.