Open Innovation
Realizing customer needs and acquiring innovative technologies through idea management software: HypeIMT for Open Innovation
Cultivate external ideas - Increase potential for innovation – Ensure competitive advantages
As a leading software solution for idea and innovation management, HypeIMT allows an easy integration of external contributors and problem solvers into the innovation process. In addition to the two central and popular concepts in the practice for opening up the innovation process, namely, Lead User Communities (integration of customers and users) and IP-licensing (involvement of external experts for problem-solving search), HypeIMT provides a flexible and extensive, customizable software solution to establish organization-specific Open Innovation strategies.
HypeIMT connects customers, partners, users and researchers to an innovation community, and gives you access to "Crowd Wisdom". Through collaborative Web 2.0 features, HypeIMT motivates your innovation community to participate in idea generation.
Cultivate external ideas!
- Identify trends and develop new products closer to real customer needs.
- Open your innovation process to the outside world without disclosing secure content.
- Publish your company-specific needs and benefit tangibly from external expert networks for problem-solving.
Increase potential for innovation!
- Meet your lead users. Listen to the "voice of the customer" and take into account customer needs in the early stages of new product development.
- Enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of your innovation pipeline. Organize idea contests for your community and generate more and better ideas through the expertise of external users.
- Connect your business with external partners, engineers, scientists and experts. HypeIMT helps you to inlicense new technologies and to acquire Intellectual Property.
Ensure competitive advantages!
- Strengthen your brands and your image as a pioneering company.
- Shorten time-to-market and get a higher market share by benefiting from first-mover advantages.
- Set technological standards and ensure the exclusive utilization of technological innovations.
Features of HypeIMT for Open Innovation
Configurable Discussion and Voting Schemes
Configurable Watchlist
Configurable Reward Allocation
- Configurable User Roles and Access Rights