Launch an open innovation website, with a direct link from your corporate or business website Define strategic arenas for each of your businesses, and identify search themes or challenges for each strategic arena Broadcast challenges through the open innovation website and through targeted emails to your open innovation subscribers, customer and supplier lists and inventor networks Define straightforward workflows and alerts for how different types of idea will be captured, developed and evaluated Enable open innovation participants to submit insights and ideas related to challenges Support collaborative development of ideas and communication between innovation internal participants Capture structured idea and technology proposal information and unstructured information (comments, expert advice, documents, links, etc.) as the idea develops | Retain all ideation information in an Ideation Bank, used for automated correlation and clustering as well as manual search Automatically identify and connect employees who share common areas of interest and similar insights and ideas Automatically cluster proposals by correlated content to further develop ideas and technologies Evaluate proposals using pre-defined business criteria and weighted scoring Keep open innovation participants informed of the status of their submissions, and facilitate communications between submitter and evaluator Generate performance metrics and dashboards to evaluate the effectiveness and efficiency of the approach Integrate the open innovation process and system seamlessly with your new product development process | 
