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Idealink Open is a highly configurable off-the-shelf solution for companies that want to take advantage of an open innovation workflow.
It has many of the same robust idea processing features found in Idealink Sequential, but with the added benefit of including more people in the development
of the idea's front end - as well as its validation process.
The growing empowerment of the internet has created fantastic opportunities for collaboration. Imagine having your customers, suppliers and employees collaborate on your next great product or process improvement – this isn’t fantasy; it is here and it is now. For one, more-and-more clients want to have a say in how their products and services are being developed, priced and delivered. They are ready to tell you what they want in order to part with their money. Thru experiences, cultural diversity and in some cases expertise, these people are ready to help you make things better for them.
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the serendipity of conversations spawns new ideas |
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thru voting and further collaboration ideas get refined into opportunities |
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opportunities get analyzed, justified and decided upon based on management-set thresholds |
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decisions turn into implemented projects that can be tracked throughout workflow - from idea
submission to implementation |
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implemented project results = innovations |
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The story of how Idealink OpenTM was developed
BrainBank had been providing innovation management solutions for a number of years and was looking to discover new ways of servicing its customers even better. The consensus from our the customer base was that the time to develop new ideas was increasingly hard to come by, personnel turn-over or mobility made it difficult to maintain expert continuity and resources were just stretched to the max. As a result, even the good ideas had difficulty getting developed to a point where someone in the organization was comfortable enough to take-on the risk of making a decision on their viability and/or assuming implementation ownership. Consequently, it became nearly impossible to grow innovation momentum beyond the current levels.
By using an existing version of our Idealink™ Customer technology, we reached-out to our customers, suppliers, academia and the public at large for new ways of doing things – not just ideas, but more…collaboration that brought together concept, co-creation, refinement, cost justifications, documentation, expertise and implementation vision…baked into a proposal; rather than just an idea. The minute we saw it, we all knew that it was right; communities move better, faster and more purposefully when self-organized around a specific idea and given the power of open collaboration and the support of relevant on-demand resources. The process template for Idealink Open™ was born!!
The most remarkable aspect of this discovery was the speed at which it all came together. The Genie (or genius) is out of the bottle and there is no turning back – who would want to?
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By taking things one step further and opening your process, these collaborators can help manage the front-end tasks around these new ideas – those tasks that your internal managers already have so little time for. Through self-organized participation, one can appreciate that a vast pool of self-motivated collaborators can access to much broader base of talent, resources, diversity and expertise – and with this greater resources lever, create response times and expediency that no one corporate entity could hope to match; resulting in market-ready products and accelerated time-to-market.
All the proven back-end rigor, idea processing functions, administrative features and comprehensive reporting from Idealink Sequential are integral to Idealink Open to complete the process loop.
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Ideas List 2 |
Submit a Design |
Sample Challenge |
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Geo Location Report |
Social Networks Report |
Rewards & Public Stats |
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