Software for Innovation Excellence

Idea Management
While most organizations have trouble innovating, more and more internally generated product and service ideas
disappear every day without having been shared, enriched, evaluated or even simply pro-actively stored for the future. IFT's Idea Management System focuses on capturing ideas from your employees, customers and business partners, and providing collaboration means to ensure ideas are shared and enriched by your team members before being analyzed and evaluated for implementation.
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The IFT offering is the only software solution to provide in one single integrated solution "best in class" Idea Capture & Management practices and functionality:       
 
1.  Voice of customer driven Ideas:
our technology enables you to connect to customer feed-back databases and extract new customer insights on which your staff can generate ideas
 
2. Collaboration and Process: 
 We believe that the value of an idea comes first from its co-development and review from different parts of the organization. Our solution provides both collaboration and process flow to drive each idea to a formal evaluation and portfolio analysis path, once nurturing and maturation has taken place.
  

3. Correlation and clustering engine: our patented technology ensures that ideas submitted from many people using different terminology to describe their ideas, can be automatically clustered into related themes. Your Idea Teams can then get to the essential essence of each idea theme, and propose solutions to commercialize entire groups of ideas with better, more differentiated, products and services.
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The IFT solution automates the complete process, allowing ideas to be collected, documented, shared and evaluated up to the business case level, at which the most valuable ideas will be transformed in actual projects and products.
Its key capabilities include :
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n      a centralized and configurable Idea Bank for all type of ideas: product, process, etc.
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n       fully configurable idea enhancement and evaluation processes: key data gathering, collaboration, peer review, expert call-ins, responsibilities, decision steps, etc.
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n       simple & sophisticated scoring criteria: financial (ROI, NPV, IRR), market, risks, etc..
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n       vizualization of the idea portfolio according to multiple dimensions and dash-board types: funnel, matrix, scorecards, etc.
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n       collaboration: document management, correlation & search engine, alerts
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.n       configurable roles and flexible definition of security rules




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