Audience
Companies seeking an innovation management solution that links organizations to people with ideas
About InnovationStation
Employees are able to access the Innovation Station application on any company computer smartphone or personal device. Anyone can submit an idea and, just as easily, anybody can vote and comment. This can be done anonymously. Once an idea receives a predetermined vote count, the innovator is granted permission to begin the investigation phase. In some cases, an executive may see an idea and fast-forward it without the votes. The innovator receives about 30 days and specified resources to explore and develop the idea leading to a final pitch to executives. If the investigation and review by a panel of judges for the business case are favorable, it moves to incubation for prototyping, or small scale testing, tweaking and validation. Not all ideas are going to be successful, and that’s ok. Some ideas are ahead of their time, but the homework has been done. The final stage is either implementation as a new product or process improvement, or a change in status to Pass or Perish.