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Systematic Ideation Performance

Two complementary approaches can be used to leverage your internal organizational talent to uncover new customer insights and breakthrough ideas. The first is to bring together experts in your organization to focus on specific ‘innovation growth initiatives’. The second approach to leveraging internal talent is to build a systematic ideation performance process to capture insights and ideas from across your organization as a day-to-day business process.

When to use Systematic Ideation Performance

A systematic ideation performance process is particularly effective in generating a steady stream of ideas across a large set of markets, products, processes and organizations, in order to identify rapid incremental innovations to defend or expand current market share:

Your business units have a culture of innovation, and you want to provide a common ideation performance platform that each business unit can leverage to accelerate their own idea challenges and ideation pipeline

Your business units urgently need to start the flow of incremental innovation ideas to kick-start your innovation pipeline

You want to focus innovation efforts on the most strategic areas for the company

You want to involve as many people in the company as possible in the ideation process, as good ideas may come from anywhere, across any business function and you want to foster and reward a culture of innovation across the company.

Systematic ideation performance tends to deliver more incremental innovation – to defend or expand existing market share.

IFT’s Solution

IFT’s Systematic Ideation Performance solution provides a common platform across multiple business units to increase the quantity and quality of ideas captured from across the organization, correlate and develop those ideas and to quickly and efficiently evaluate these ideas to select those that represent the best candidates for commercialization. The result is a much better flow of good new ideas into your innovation pipeline, typically yielding up to 10 times more commercialization-ready ideas than traditional idea management approaches. All without incurring the high administrative effort of managing large quantities of ideas and related information.

Specifically IFT’s solution enables you to create a systematic ideation performance process to:

Define strategic arenas for specific business units

Identify ideation challenges for each strategic arena

Broadcast ideation challenges to a targeted set of employees

Define straightforward workflows and alerts for how insights and ideas should be captured, developed and evaluated

Quickly capture insights and ideas related to ideation challenges

Support collaborative development of ideas and communication between employees.

Capture structured idea information (risks, value proposition, competitive intelligence, etc.) and unstructured information (comments, expert advice, documents, links, etc.) as the idea develops

Retain all ideation information in an Ideation Bank, which can be used for manual search and automated correlation and clustering

Automatically identify and connect employees who share common areas of interest and similar insights and ideas

Automatically identify correlated insights and ideas and prompt employees with stimuli to improve creativity and idea development

Automatically cluster ideas by correlated content to further develop ideas, and consolidate ideas to make the evaluation process more efficient.

Evaluate ideas using pre-defined business criteria and weighted scoring

Enable employees to track the status of ideas submitted, and facilitate communications between submitter and evaluator.

Generate performance metrics and dashboards for employees for feedback and to enable ideation reward and recognition mechanisms

Generate performance metrics and dashboards for Ideation Challenges to evaluate their effectiveness

Integrate the FEI system seamlessly with your Stage-Gate product development process.

What are your looking for?

Example Solution Capabilities

Stimulation, collaboration and process
Our unique stimulating and collaborative environment ensures that ideas are shared and enriched by team members before being analyzed and evaluated for implementation.

Correlation Maps
The correlation map enables you to visualize useful connections between insights, ideas, commonly used terms and team members. These are represented as nodes on the map, with the intensity of correlation displayed as a series of contours. Mousing over each node displays the key connections and a description of the node itself. These correlation maps help team members identify and connect critical information and individuals to help develop and collaborate on insights and ideas.