BENEFIT | FEATURES |
Create an Innovation
Community | - Users can submit ideas and comments via the web
- Users can browse, comment on, enrich, build on, and vote on others' ideas
- Users can subscribe to topics of interest and be notified about changes
- Users are aware of others' activities and can compare themselves to others
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Run Idea Campaigns | - Innovation managers can run time-limited idea campaigns to the whole or part of the user community
- A sponsor with a high level of seniority provides the campaign's focus and drives the selection and implementation of the best ideas
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Encourage and Incentivise
Innovation
| - All contributions to an idea are logged and can be credited
- All kinds of desirable behavior (e.g., submitting or giving feedback upon an idea, completing a review in time, backing a successful idea) can be rewarded by allocating credits to a user's rewards account
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Define Evaluation Criteria
for Ideas | - Standardized sets of quantitative or qualitative rating criteria in each filtering step
- Scores can be weighed and valued differently in the end results
- Reviews, opinions and votes can be incorporated into the assessment
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Organize Idea Review Meetings | - HypeIMT generates PDF, HTML, Word, Excel, and PowerPoint presentations for use in meetings
- HypeIMT keeps track of which reviewers have filled in their reviews
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Manage Idea Portfolios | - Ideas are categorized using organization-specific classification hierarchies
- Quantitative data can be searched, clustered, and "sliced and diced"
- HypeIMT generates diagrams, charts and statistics in Excel and PNG
- HypeIMT generates tabular reports in Excel
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Systematize the
"Front End of Innovation" | - Define the sequence of process steps
- Define who is in charge at what step
- Define who can provide or access what kind of information
- Define standardized forms for every submission, review, or rating step
- Define classification hierarchies and rating criteria
- Define standard reports
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Define an Idea Management Process That Is Right for Your Organization | The extreme flexibility of HypeIMT ensures that the software will be adapted to your innovation process and not vice versa. |
Automate Tedious Tasks | Automate activities like - Creating and updating PowerPoint or Excel reports
- Notifying people via email
- Sending reminders
- Monitoring user activities
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Facilitate Adoption by Striking a Balance Between Centralism and Diversity | In HypeIMT, the sequence of process steps, the people in charge, the criteria for rating ideas, to name just a few specifics of the front-end process, can be made to be different from one department, location, or region to another. |
