Edison365

Enable bottom-up innovation and allow your employees to share their ideas at any time and any place. Employees can easily upload their ideas without any training, with idea templates pre-populated with guidance.

Set challenges aligned to the organization’s strategy for top-down innovation. These challenges can be set to focus on both incremental and disruptive change, producing benefit however you need.

If similar ideas are created without realizing, these ideas can be combined, and the idea creators can be informed. This encourages employees to collaborate on similar ideas, regardless of their background.

edison365ideas provides the ability to establish different audiences and interest areas to target content within the tool. Users may be automatically entered in an audience group or can request to join those that might be of interest to them. Ideas can also be submitted anonymously if the setting is enabled against any challenge.

Users can access the full functionality of edison365ideas within Microsoft Teams. Users can update the idea details, leave comments, rate, vote, and attach documents to an idea, whilst also leveraging all the features of Teams.

Discussions about ideas and challenges can take place using Yammer, which is fully integrated within the edison365ideas comments section.

Categorize ideas with tags to seamlessly filter ideas regarding the same or similar topics.

Documents can be attached to idea templates to standardize the process. Employees also have the option to attach their own documents to explain their idea further and support their justification.

Give your employees the opportunity to earn points for the innovation activities they perform; whether it is for adding an idea, providing a star rating to another or their idea becomes success. The number of points earned for each activity or action are configured by the super users.

Over time employees can redeem points for prizes through the edison365ideas rewards system. The rewards are decided by you and can be monetary or non-monetary, some examples might be a free coffee, lunch with the CEO, close parking for a month, all can easily be configured in the system with various point requirements.

Voting in edison365ideas supports employee engagement whilst also serving as a measure of idea popularity. Employees can be given a limited number of votes which they can then invest in the ideas they support, and want to see implemented.

To give employees transparency around their activity in the platform, edison365ideas shows their personal position in a monthly and to date leaderboard, as well as showing the top users. Users achieve medals based on certain actions in edison365ideas.

The triage feature supports leadership decision making, enabling the evaluation of individual ideas or comparison with others. Ideas are evaluated against configurable KPI’s, aligning the innovation process to the organization’s overall strategy to ensure success. Access to the ideas triage is restricted to reviewers such as innovation board members, heads of innovation and leadership.

Employees can understand the overall popularity of their ideas by looking at the star rating. These unlimited ratings represent informal feedback from other ideators that have sight of their idea within the tool.

For more formalized feedback, users can view the votes that have been made against their idea. Users have a set number of votes they can invest, making this a higher weighted form of feedback and an indicator of the idea’s potential.

Users can easily gain an immediate view of their own ideas and those they are required to triage by visiting their personal page. Individuals can also subscribe to notifications to keep updated on idea progress.

edison365ideas provides high level reporting using Microsoft Power BI. Create live reports and check real-time statistics for edison365ideas submissions and challenges, including a funnel view to recognize current stages. Measure the results from developed ideas to inform your future ideation approaches for continued innovation success.

With all edison365ideas data stored in your Microsoft 365tenant, there is complete reporting flexibility. All data can be reported on using excel or a preferred third-party solution at any time, and in any format.

Enable edison365 Open Innovation and expand your ideas economy to  include your external stakeholders. Using social authentication to login, users do not require a Microsoft 365 account to login. Decide what challenges you want to make public and gain ideas from your entire innovation ecosystem to deliver ideas that pay. The internal team can specify whether external users are able to see each other ideas or just their own.

Seamlessly justify and assess the impact of successful ideas by creating a business case. With built in integration with edison365businesscase, quickly and easily transfer idea information and produce a business case to understand its cost, benefit and resource requirements. With configurable processes and case types, benefit from a standardized and transparent method of capturing and managing business case data.

Once the business case is approved, easily transfer it into edison365projects where it can be successfully delivered, ensuring the original innovation benefits are realized. A flexible project and portfolio management solution, edison365projects is suitable for all project types with pre-populated and customizable templates.