Fall 2024: Drive the Process

There is no sugar-coating it: the world is changing faster than ever. Depending on your perspective, this moment represents either the biggest threat or the greatest opportunity of our lifetimes. Embrace the new, and untold riches are up for grabs. Cling to the old for too long, and you may find yourself stuck in neutral, as the others speed past. It’s time to look beyond ideas. It’s time to DRIVE THE PROCESS all the way from insight to productivity and profits. With Brightidea by your side, you won’t just survive this period of disruption—you will accelerate bravely into the future, leaving the competition in the dust.


Introducing Brightidea Innovation Cloud 4.0, with features designed to empower Innovation teams to drive a more structured approach to managing their innovation pipelines. From enhanced collaboration tools to cutting-edge AI capabilities, we’ve got everything you need to put the pedal down and win.

Deep Support for Demanding Innovation Workflows

The Stage Gate process is a proven, linear methodology that helps organizations prioritize, allocate resources, and de-risk projects. With this addition, we’re empowering you to make data-driven decisions and increase your chances of project success.

This core platform update is available, by default, on several apps within our app families to support the diverse use cases. This includes a new app as part of our Idea Box family, Innovation Process, Incubate from Lab, Venture within the Ecosystem family, and lastly, Transform from the Transformation family.

Now Available In These Apps

 
This powerful tool will revolutionize how you manage your projects, from inception to launch. By automating project room creation and enabling seamless scoring against predefined gates, you can now focus on what truly matters – driving large innovative concepts to market.

Features include:

• Customized and Pre-configured App: The mentioned apps have updated core workflows to support the new action items and models a Stage Gate process creating a more efficient build out.
• Stage Action Item: Introduces a new action item that pulls together all the assets and activities teams need to support the phase of the project the concept is currently within, allowing the team to collaboratively work toward the next gate approval.
• Gate Approval Action Item: Customizable scorecard, with the ability for evaluators to complete their evaluation directly in line within the Project Room, tracking progress and managing final scores.
• Customizable Project Room Templates: Ability to set-up a Project Room, per initiative, automatically creating the room on the record. We have generated default project rooms to support the top use cases that can also be used out of the box.
• Connective Tissue Within the Entire Platform: Utilize cutting edge and competitive tools like Whiteboard, Memo, Business Impact tracking, etc.

Core Platform Enhancements for Maximum Efficiency

To help you work smarter, not harder, we’ve introduced several key updates to our platform:

• View Idea 3 for All: After an extended Beta period, we’re rolling out our advanced idea management tool, View Idea 3, to all apps by default. This means richer idea capture, better collaboration, and improved decision-making across your organization. With this rollout we also updated our tag subscription functionality!
• Enhanced Rules Engine: Our upgraded Rules Engine delivers greater flexibility and control over your workflow automation, saving you time and reducing errors.
• Scheduler Improvements: We’ve made it easier to visualize and manage your events with our enhanced Scheduler, including synching the work with front end site design components, like the Phase Widget.
• Quicker Idea Intake: Addition of an enhanced Quick Add to all app solutions for administrators and evaluators to quickly add ideas, bypassing submission form, but capturing key notes, categories, etc.
• Cleared our Backlog: Closed over 200 customer related bugs and issues within this last release cycle.

User Experience and Collaboration Boost

We’re committed to making your experience as seamless and enjoyable as possible. That’s why we’ve introduced:

• Centralized View of all Ideas: End users can now access and view all ideas they have permission to see in one convenient location to better source, track, and find ideas across initiatives.
• Team Size Management: Introduction of hard caps on team size, limiting submission and growth at a specific admin determined size.
• Group Management: Improved UI experience in creating and managing groups and a rollout of the beta feature for group, evaluator assignment.

Foundational Whiteboard Enhancements

Our Whiteboard tool continues to be a core capability to grow, evolve and capture your team’s thinking and processes, in a boundless manner. Some core updates for you include:

• Bi-Directional Syncing: Ensure data consistency between your platform and Whiteboard with our enhanced bi-directional sync, which will update data within your platform and the stickies on your board.
• Updates to our Default Templates: UI updates to all our Brightidea system templates, and reminder, users can customize and set system templates for all users in their innovation platform to utilize.
• Micro Interaction Improvements: Updates to our line width customization, object scaling, and hotkeys all to improve efficiency within the tool.
• Performance Upgrades: Updated our core Whiteboard infrastructure helping with improved speed and performance when working with our core components.

Innovating at the Frontier of Collective and Artificial Intelligence

Our AI capabilities continue to evolve. With the latest version of frontier models, our AI engine is smarter and more powerful than ever, so don’t forget to utilize our core features to ensure your innovation process is more efficient and accelerated.

• Suggested for You: Get customized platform updates and user activity within your Userhome, filtered based on similar activities that you have completed in the tool.
• Brainstorm Brilliantly: Our Whiteboard tool’s AI-powered brainstorming feature helps you generate fresh ideas and explore new possibilities to kickoff a session or power through a stall.
• Idea Acceleration: Our AI can assist you in developing and maturing idea descriptions and details within the submission and View Idea 3 processes.
• Idea Development: Within our Memo tool, use AI as an outside source to help you validate and expound on a business case and/or idea positioning.
• Scout Smarter: Our Scout app uses AI to identify potential vendors and automatically imports them into your pipeline, saving you valuable time.

The Winner’s Circle

As business leaders we must cultivate an “innovation mindset” within our teams and throughout our organizations. Right now you now have unique and deeply-integrated capabilities to support the complex Innovation Processes within your organization. These tools enable you to achieve the essential balance between velocity and control. With the right mindset, the best tools, and an engaged team you can achieve extraordinary things.

So, fire up those engines and take this baby for a test drive. We can’t wait to see the amazing things you will do with BIC4.

Stay bright ☀️
Brightidea team