Ideawake

What is Ideawake?

Ideas management and innovation software

Collect, evaluate and implement the top 5% of ideas that will generate 95% of new business results.

Idealize and collaborate

Collect ideas about targeted from your team or the entire organization. Rate ideas and collaborate in real time.

Evaluate and refine

Use employee knowledge to automatically bring up the best ideas and gather information needed to evaluate ROI.

Implement and measure

Decision makers can easily review business cases, further classify ideas, and design teams for them to happen.

How collective innovation works

Invite your employees, customers, or suppliers to collaborate and resolve your toughest issues.

1. Post a challenge and send invitations

Identify areas you'd like to innovate in and post a new challenge to collect targeted ideas and solutions with just clicks.

Control participation

Limit the visibility and access of each challenge topic posted by department, customer list, or vendor type.

Open and closed innovation

Reach the general public for ideas or limit access to your innovation management platform internally.

Ideawake Stages

Customize the steps that ideas go from collection to implementation to match your current processes.

Automated email notifications

Participants are automatically notified when a challenge is posted to maximize engagement.

2. Collect and refine ideas

Invited participants submit ideas and solutions for their challenge. Rate entries, provide feedback on posted solutions, and collaborate with participants in real time.

Collect Additional Fields

Assign user groups to refine ideas, evaluate deployment time, and determine roi potential.

Real-time chat

Collaborate with participants on real-time published solutions to iterate quickly and efficiently.

Crowd voting

Save decision makers time by harnessing the wisdom of respondents to bring up valuable ideas automatically

Gamificação

Encourage participation by giving users points for completing value-added activities to help move ideas forward.

3. Evaluate and filter ideas

The tools of management and evaluation of ideas the decision makers filter the signal of noise to reach the desired solution more successfully.

Compare the ROI of the idea

Easily compare ideas based on value, cost, and deployment time to make resource allocation decisions easier.

Assign review groups

Assign specific groups of users to evaluate an idea based on custom scorecard criteria.

Various types of evaluation

Assess the feasibility of ideas based on collective voting or customizable scorecards.

Create custom scorecards

Customize the assessment criteria to match organizational goals and processes.

Selected and award-winning solutions

After reviewing and choosing the best solutions, prize winning entries with cash or non-cash prizes.

Customizable prize types

Offer a wide variety of incentives to participate in your challenges. Examples include gift cards for employees or granting a proposal to a vendor.

We're here to help

Helping you identify the best prizes to offer participants based on your organization's goals and the challenge being presented.

5. Prioritize and implement ideas

Continue collaboration on the best solutions presented for your challenge with internal or external participants.

Sharing files and images

Collaborate seamlessly around ideas and incorporate powerpoints, files, and images to continue developing ideas.

Real-time chat

Collaborate with participants on real-time published solutions to iterate quickly and efficiently to get to the solution you want.

Follow the life cycle of the idea

Track how long it takes for an idea to complete each stage of your process to determine how long it takes to go through your innovation lifecycle.

System requirements:

CPU: 1.8 GHz dual core processor

RAM: 2 GB

HDD / SSD: 50 GB of free space on the main drive

Operating system: Microsoft Windows 10, Microsoft Windows 8 32-bit, Microsoft Windows 7 32-bit and Microsoft Windows Vista 32-bit

Resolution: 1024 × 768

Supported operating systems

Mac OS X 10.5 x (Leopard), Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard), Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion), Mac OS X 10.7 (Mountain Lion), OS X 10.9 (Mavericks) and Mac OS X 10.10 (Yosemite)

Hardware requirements

Memory - 1 GB of RAM and more

Free disk space - 50 MB

System type - 32-bit and 64-bit OS