Collaboration

Collaboration is the new way to work. Whether it's ideation, co-creation, crowdsourcing or on-demand expertise, Collaboration 2.0 improves quality and reduces cycle times. Idealink^TM offers some of the most advanced collaboration features for you to leverage this new work paradigm: whether by established open social media such as LinkedIn and Facebook, through more specialized communities of practice, or via internal networks. You can now have participants engage on much more immediate, relevant and connected levels to accelerate your innovation process.

Voting Value map Commenting Uploading media Vote on comments Ask an expert Championing Idea Tagging Email to a Friend

Vote on your favourite ideas. Value map enables you to solicit a qualitative score along with brute numerical score, allowing you to align quantitative criteria with popularity score. Comment on ideas to help build them. Upload images, documents and videos to ideas and comments. Vote on comments. Who has the time to read a comment more then once? Your community is full of experts, why not use them? Become the idea champion and take ownership of the idea development. By adding tags and expertise the system can send you ideas that interest you. Based on permissions, collaborate with internal and/or external users by emailing ideas to friends.

Instead of managing innovations strictly through email, Idealink provides a platform that brings the right resources around a given idea. This idea-centric approach enables idea champions to manage the development of each idea according to your process rigor — resulting in more diverse input, faster tasking, relevant expertise and better built ideas. This helps keep your next-step role players engaged by providing rich proposal instead of ideas with only a description, some comments and a vote score.

Quick Search Idea Search User Search Community Search Knowledge Search

Do a quick search using keywords. Advanced idea search allows you to drill down. Find collaborators based on job description, expertise, accreditation or past projects. Find innovation ideas, activities and people that interest you. Access idea-building information, knowledge and data from across your organization and beyond.