Q-ideate

Intelligent Idea Management Software

Don’t just talk about innovation, make sure it happens. Nurture a culture of collaboration to gather, manage, and implement impactful ideas that deliver ongoing value for your organization.

Why Idea Management Software?

Embed a Culture of Innovation at Scale

Cultivate an innovator’s mindset amongst your audience and make sure everyone’s ideas are considered

Deliver
Exponential ROI

Gather and spot ideas that can
deliver incredible bottom-line results for your business

Solve Strategic
Challenges

Leverage the wisdom of crowds against your toughest challenges
and biggest opportunities

Manage Your
Innovation Portfolio

Gather and prioritize a pipeline of innovative ideas for sustainable business growth

How Does it Work?

Challenge
Brainstorm
Evaluate
Implement
Track
Challenge
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Challenge

Launch an ideation challenge to gather ideas around a strategic opportunity, question, or pain point.

  • Create an engaging landing page for your challenge containing all the information your audience needs to participate, including pictures, videos, challenge sponsors, and more
  • Invite any audience to join, segment them however you like, and customize the idea submission form to ensure your users are focused on what matters
  • Assign campaign managers to govern their campaign by setting specific moderation rules, defining the challenge timeframe, communicating with the campaign audience, analyzing performance and more
Brainstorm
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Brainstorm

Your users submit their ideas, refine them through collaboration, and vote for the ones they think are best.

  • Similar ideas are automatically detected during submission to prevent duplication and encourage teamwork 
  • Intuitive social functionality encourages users to develop ideas into business plans through collaboration, and they can earn ‘points’ and ‘badges’ for their contributions
  • Users rate ideas via the crowd-voting method of your choice, including thumbs up/down, star ratings, and token-voting 
Evaluate
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Evaluate

Develop a business plan for your ideas by gathering insights and data from all relevant stakeholders.

  • Ideas are automatically filtered and progressed through the workflow according to your chosen criteria, and our AI will recommend relevant experts and decision makers
  • Use advanced evaluation methods like balanced score card, idea tournament, shark tank, and token voting along the process
  • Our powerful sonar tool allows you to cross-reference dozens of data points and pinpoint the ideas with the highest potential 
Implement
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Implement

Review the final shortlist of ideas, and use the data and insights at your fingertips to decide which ones to commercialize.

  • Create tasks and assign resources to manage the implementation of your ideas companywide 
  • Intuitively move ideas between your different workflow stages with our Kanban functionality 
  • Integrate with leading PPLM tools of your choice to automate the process
Track
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Track

Use our powerful reporting functionality to understand and optimize the performance of your innovation program.

  • Use our out-of-the-box reports and dashboards, or create custom reports of your own to analyze audience engagement, efficiency, ROI, and more 
  • Measure the ROI and forecasted impact of your ideas and share them with different stakeholders across the company  
  • Identify any bottlenecks and maintain a balanced innovation portfolio over time with our funnel view 

Features At Your Fingertips

Localization
& Translation

Choose from 20+ languages with automated content translation and custom terminology

Custom Homepage & Branding

Build your own homepage and customize the platform skin to match your brand identity

Challenge
Creation Wizard

Define every aspect of your challenge with our intuitive step-by-step wizard

Audience
Segmentation

Create an audience and invite them to participate in a specific challenge

Smart Content Recommendations

Users are automatically shown content that is relevant to their interests to stimulate platform engagement

Following
& Sharing

Users can easily follow ideas to receive updates, or share ideas to reach a wider audience

Points, Badges, & Incentives

Use gamification to incentivize users to contribute to your innovation program effectively

Advanced
Crowd-Voting

Invite your users to evaluate solutions through thumbs up/down voting, star ratings, token voting, and more

Similar
Idea Recognition

AI ensures you never receive duplicate solutions by showing users similar content live from the submission form

Trusted By

Innovation Leaders

We measured a realized Annual Operating Income Contribution to Date of $262 million, with an anticipated final (risk-weighted) outcome in excess of $577 million.

We’re seeing ROI in both savings and earnings, with ideas to improve processes, existing products and services, and even new businesses and markets.

A single idea from the Qmarkets platform has resulted in almost $40 million of added value for the business.

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The Qmarkets platform has helped us to generate over 15,000 ideas, with a forecasted value of over $9.5 million.

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Start Your Idea Management Journey Today

Get in touch with our team of innovation experts to see how we can help unlock your innovation potential.