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Idea Management Software

Idea Management

What is Idea Management Software?

Idea Management software is a platform for organizations to gather ideas from employees and to evaluate them to manage innovation more efficiently. The platform allows product marketers and engineers to quickly gather ideas, provide opportunities for employee collaboration, and respond to decisions around product development, marketing, or strategy.

Common Features

  • Idea Capture
  • Dashboards, Analytics and Reporting
  • Role-Based Access
  • Social Collaboration
  • Advanced Search and Filtering
  • Idea Approval Workflow
  • Mobile
  • Idea Funnel
  • Notifications
  • Idea Scoring / Evaluation
  • Idea Segmentation
  • News Feed
  • Multiple Language Support
  • Data Export and Import
  • Application Integration

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Idea Drop

Idea Drop

Composite Score
7.6 /10
CX Score
7.7 /10

Idea Drop’s powerful and intuitive idea management software helps you discover, evaluate, refine and execute the most impactful ideas from everyone, everywhere. With Idea Drop, you can supercharge revenue and market share, reduce costs, discover efficiencies, launch new products and race ahead of your competitors.

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Reliable
  • Enables Productivity
  • Trustworthy
Infinity

Infinity

Composite Score
7.4 /10
CX Score
7.6 /10

A project management software with a flexible structure which contains multiple plugins to help you organize tasks, files, data, notes and built-in chat for better team collaboration. Your project organization synced into one place. Infinity is a project management software with a flexible structure which contains multiple plugins to help you organize tasks, files, data, notes and built-in chat for better team collaboration.

Pros

  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing
  • Trustworthy
Composite Score
7.2 /10
CX Score
7.2 /10

Canny helps small to large businesses collect, analyze, prioritize and track user feedback to make informed product decisions. Feedback is captured and organized in one place so it’s easy to pull insights. Canny’s feature set includes public or private feedback boards, scoring features to see priority, public changelog, and more. Canny can be added to existing workflows using integrations like Intercom, Zendesk, Salesforce, Jira, Github, Slack, and more.

Pros

  • Helps Innovate
  • Continually Improving Product
  • Reliable
  • Performance Enhancing

Cons

  • Leverages Incumbent Status
Sideways 6 Ltd

Sideways 6

Composite Score
7.0 /10
CX Score
7.3 /10

Sideways 6 is idea and innovation management software that works alongside your collaboration tools, sparking ideas in places where they happen naturally. Sideways 6 allows you to source ideas from anywhere. It collects ideas by leveraging tools your employees already use such as Microsoft Teams, Yammer and Workplace by Facebook. With Sideways 6, turn ideas into projects and manage them all the way through to delivery.

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Pros

  • Continually Improving Product
  • Respectful
  • Transparent
  • Includes Product Enhancements

Cons

  • Under Delivered
Qmarkets

Q-ideate

Composite Score
5.9 /10
CX Score
6.0 /10

Q-ideate is intelligent idea management software to crowdsource, enhance, and execute ideas that deliver exponential ROI for your organization. Launch collaborative idea challenges around a strategic opportunity or pain point, incentivize participation, and deploy advanced evaluation methods to identify innovations with the highest potential. Then track their implementation and use our powerful reporting functionality to understand and optimize the performance of your innovation program.

Pros

  • Trustworthy
  • Saves Time
  • Fair
  • Inspires Innovation

Cons

  • Charges for Enhancements
  • Under Delivered

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Wazoku Idea Management Software is an enterprise solution for Idea Management & Open Innovation, powered by Wazoku's proprietary Challenge Driven Innovation methodology for Innovation at Scale. This modular Enterprise suite of tools provides the tools needed to power internal, external and open innovation across your global organization. It helps to engage and collaborate with the workforce, ecosystem, customers and the world – to generate new ideas as part of a wider innovation strategy.

ITONICS GmbH

ITONICS

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The ITONICS Innovation Operating System (OS) connects foresight, ideation, and portfolio activities with strategic goals in a collaborative system. It centralizes innovation intelligence, enhances information sharing, and streamlines decision-making for seamless strategy execution. Key features include environmental scanning, data visualization, customizable idea management workflows, and tools for roadmap and portfolio creation. The AI-powered platform supports innovation leaders around the world, including adidas, Johnson & Johnson, Toyota, Mondelez, Siemens, and KPMG.

InnovationCast

InnovationCast

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InnovationCast® is the collaborative innovation management software that helps companies engage people to co-create ideas and bring them to life

Medallia Inc.

Medallia Ideas

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Medallia Ideas, formerly Crowdicity, is an innovation and idea management software. This social software empowers your organisation to harness the idea and creativity of their people to discover new perspectives, insights and opportunities. With Crowdicity, foster a culture of innovation by implementing an employee facing idea platform, target challenges at everyone or a specific group, based on their expertise, interests or experience and capture ideas for new products and or services or facilitate continuous improvement.

Wellspring Worldwide

Acclaim Ideas

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Acclaim Ideas is the only idea management tool you need to find, align, test and deliver the best ideas in your organization.

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