Ideation is a systematic practice that helps organizations generate and refine concepts and ideas to solve pressing challenges. Through a multi-stage process consisting of phases and gates, ideas are gathered, aggregated, analyzed, developed, and evaluated. The best ideas are then resourced, prioritized, and implemented to produce new products, services, and business models. Ideation leverages the intelligence of the hive by involving employees, test users, clients, experts, suppliers, or external crowds.

Idea Management - Solutions to Develop Winning Ideas

Why idea management?

Idea management refers to the structured process of generating, evaluating, and implementing ideas that contribute to an organization’s innovation strategy and growth. It systematically transforms a multitude of ideas into impactful solutions by leveraging collective intelligence from employees, customers, and partners.

Idea management can occur through a centralized or decentralized process. Centralized idea management allows an entire organization to engage in the process, whereas decentralized idea management allows different teams or business units to manage their own ideas.

Create idea campaigns for game-changing innovation

Develop a winning innovation strategy with ITONICS as your idea management system. Use the ITONICS Radar to define strategic focus areas and uncover which trends, technologies, and risks you need to pay attention to. Use these to create ideation campaigns that address strategic topics and access collective intelligence to find your next big transformation.

Collect idea submissions from internal and external submitters with ITONICS Campaigns. Establish reliable phase-gate processes that allow you to move idea submissions through phases and select the best ideas for further development.

Get experts to help you unlock new value by rating ideas to ensure that you back the winners.

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Drive company-wide engagement and collaboration

Break down silos and strengthen cross-functional cooperation with collaborative idea campaigns. Use idea campaigns to expose "what if" and "what’s possible" ideas, then easily report back to management using ITONICS' ideation dashboards.

Activate internal teams to get involved in ideation and start fostering intrapreneurial mindsets. Encourage participation with gamification, nudging, and customized submission platforms.

Create the foundations for win-win innovation collaborations between business units as well as with external partners and startups.

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Involve startups and prioritize winning growth opportunities

Startups can be a valuable resource to help boost innovation and disrupt industries. Augment experimental and exploratory thinking by collecting ideation submissions from startups with ITONICS' idea management platform. Find synergies and move the right ideas to the next phase.

Propel competitive advantage by tapping into the collective intelligence of a wide range of people. Gather ideas about specific challenges or opportunities, proposals from startups and inventors, and input directly from customers.

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Ensure better transitions from ideas to innovation projects

Transform the right ideas into innovation projects. Use ITONICS Portfolio Features to compare, analyze, and prioritize ideas and partnerships that contribute to your company’s overall strategy. Ensure seamless idea implementation with project workflows.

Execute initiatives effectively by aligning team efforts. Establish integrated project pipelines. Streamline strategic planning to ensure excellent execution with ITONICS Roadmap and accelerate time to market.

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One solution to bring all your innovation efforts together, enrich it collaboratively and evaluate it across different views.

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Customizable criteria enable team members and external experts to rate content in a way that combines collective knowledge.

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Incentivize and motivate your whole organization to participate with leaderboards, badges, and activity points.

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Stay on top of activities with email notifications and in-system messages that encourage participation.

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Provide a shared understanding of your organization’s innovations efforts to keep everyone in the loop and enhance strategic decision-making.

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Distill vast amounts of data with advanced filtering to easily visualize and emphasize what matters.

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Implement phase-gate processes for evaluation and control in projects and ideation campaigns, to ensure efficient resource allocation and higher success rates.

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Spark and collect disruptive ideas with global submissions and effortlessly move them to implementation.

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Get quick status overviews on innovation initiatives and report on these easily.

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Incorporate external expertise from anywhere using ideation tools – for 10 or 100,000 collaborators.

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Manage work-in-progress, maximize flow, and prioritize your most valuable initiatives using interactive Kanban Board.

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Turning ideas into action with ITONICS

DISH Network Corporation uses the ITONICS Innovation OS to develop ground-breaking ideas and integrate new innovations into the company's strategy and product development. The aim is to bundle all innovation activities on a central platform to ensure consistent and efficient idea management.

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A digital and cross-site idea management system

The innovation platform at Leonhard Weiss, powered by ITONICS, has evolved into the central and company-wide place to go for everything concerning trend and tech scouting, ideation, and innovation portfolio management.

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Pioneers Camp: Intrapreneurship for new growth

In this Podcast, we welcome Dr. Ina Nordsiek, Director Intrapreneurship at the German domestic appliance manufacturer Miele. When she joined the company in 2020, Ina’s mission was to develop an intrapreneurship program from scratch. The result: the Miele Pioneers Camp that empowers people to transform their ideas into new business.

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Innovate Everywhere Challenge powered by ITONICS

The Innovate Everywhere Challenge, running on the ITONICS Innovation OS, is now a best practice for innovation management at Cisco. And around the world. Find out how Cisco engages more than 50,000 employees year after year in a competition that has spawned a company-wide startup culture.

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The THALES Design Journey

Some years ago, THALES understood that technology-driven innovation alone, could not address the full spectrum of business challenges. We learn from Didier Boulet, Chief Design Officer, how THALES addresses the growing need for human-centered innovation through design thinking to drive better solutions and competitive advantage.

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Unlock innovation with systematic idea management

Why idea management?

Create idea campaigns for game-changing innovation

Drive company-wide engagement and collaboration

Involve startups and prioritize winning growth opportunities

Ensure better transitions from ideas to innovation projects

Generate, develop, and select ideas with impact

Empower everybody to innovate. Today.

Manage ideas and innovative solutions on one single point of truth

Best-practice stories from true innovation rockstars

Turning ideas into action with ITONICS

A digital and cross-site idea management system

Pioneers Camp: Intrapreneurship for new growth

Innovate Everywhere Challenge powered by ITONICS

The THALES Design Journey

Know what's hot in innovation before others do

10 Powerful Ideation Techniques to Unleash Creativity and Innovation

From Empathizing to Implementing: How AI Is Transforming Design Thinking

Crowdsourcing Ideas Done Right: The 10 Success Factors

ITONICS Campaigns

Turning Ideas into Action at DISH

How to Rate Ideas