Strategy & Innovation Enabling Technology

Ideas are a dime a dozen. That's one reason why strategy and innovation enabling software is increasingly important to organisations of all sizes.

This technology is not new, but it has come a long way. Now, it is without question an essential tool for every business that runs a strategic planning, innovation and/or continuous improvement programme. In other words, everyone.

The right software, implemented and managed in the right way, can ensure that your team's best ideas are rapidly captured, validated, pivoted or killed off. Ideas that are not right for the times, are not forever forgotten, but their weaknesses identified for resolution as soon as a solution becomes available and viable.

With the right metrics and criteria, the reporting can feed back critical information for continuous improvement and innovation of your innovation and continuous improvement programmes themselves! By analysing your team's ideas you can see where your strategy, innovation and continuous improvement strengths and weaknesses are. Analysing your ideas may show you have a team that is great at process improvement, but weak at human centred design. Or they may be great at new product ideation, but horrible at business modelling and commercialisation. Without tools, systems and frameworks to manage and analyse your efforts, you're working in the dark.

But beware the young player! We've seen large businesses with teams that should know better, being swamped with overwhelming numbers of ideas, poorly generated and poorly managed, having to basically nuke their programmes and start again.

IdeaScale is an innovation management platform that facilitates crowdsourcing, stage gating, expert review panels using customised value, cost and risk assessment criteria and much more. It helps businesses to get a handle on and manage their innovation pipeline. It helps find and develop your next big new products, services, businesses, markets and more. And it can equally be used to manage pipeline of continuous improvements in operational efficiency.

It has an impressive client base that includes NASA and the White House, countless City and State Governments and Universities and businesses, including Sydney University, the Queensland Education Dept, the Board of Taxation and the WA Police to mention just a few.

That's why Blue Ocean Strategy Australia is delighted to be an IdeaScale Gold Partner. We have found it to be a fantastic platform for ideation and collaboration, and for enabling the tracking of the Eliminate, Reduce, Raise and Create initiatives on our clients' Blue Ocean strategy canvasses.

For any business improvement and change programme to work well, needs People, Process and Platform. IdeaScale is the world's largest cloud-based innovation software platform with more than 25,000 customers and 4.5 million users. And Blue Ocean Strategy, written by Professors W. Chan Kim and Renée Mauborgne, is a bestseller across five continents, has been read by millions of people, and published in a record-breaking 44 languages. It challenges everything you thought you knew about competitive strategy. They work well together.

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