Turning ideas into action with ITONICS
DISH Network consolidates its innovation pipeline with ITONICS, ensuring a structured approach to breakthrough ideas and digital transformation.
Use caseIdea management
Better ideas, better filtered, better results
Every idea that gets built costs tooling, testing, and a production slot. That budget belongs to the strongest ideas. Filter fast, decide on criteria, and prove what each implemented idea earned.
One intake, no duplicates
Ideas arrive by email, in workshops, and through the manager who knows someone. Half are duplicates; most answer no business question.
Run all intake through campaigns tied to concrete challenges: cut scrap, replace a material, close a product gap. Duplicates get flagged. Every idea lands against a goal.
Source ideas from outside your walls
Your engineers know your product. A supplier, a university lab, or a customer knows what you cannot see from inside. Open a submission portal for external partners. Score their proposals in the same pipeline as internal ideas. The best answer wins regardless of where it came from.
Let AI do the first pass
Two hundred submissions after a campaign, and the review team has day jobs in engineering.
Prism enriches raw ideas, clusters duplicates, and pre-rates against your criteria. Reviewers start at a ranked list. The expert judgment stays human, the sorting does not.
See what's the NPV of your pipeline
The question that kills ideation budgets: what is the net present value? Track every idea from submission to implemented change, with the value attached. Cost saved, part improved, product launched. At the review, the pipeline shows its output, not its activity.
Keep the experts engaged between campaigns
The first campaign always works. The third one dies quietly, because contributors never heard what happened to round one. Show every submitter the status of their idea and the outcome of past campaigns. Engineers contribute to a process that visibly answers.
Best practices for managing ideas
Innovate Everywhere Challenge powered by ITONICS
Cisco’s Innovate Everywhere Challenge, powered by ITONICS, engages 50,000+ employees, fostering a startup mindset through competition and best-in-class corporate innovation practices.
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Why idea management teams work with ITONICS
"With a collaborative platform, we made the Innovate Everywhere Challenge a key part of our innovation strategy, fostering Cisco-wide cultural change and creating a global network of innovators."
"With a collaborative platform, we made the Innovate Everywhere Challenge a key part of our innovation strategy, fostering Cisco-wide cultural change and creating a global network of innovators."
