Introducing the Innovation Portfolio Management Playbook
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Dynamic Continuous Improvement Software
Operate at your maximum potential. Embed a streamlined process to continuously discover opportunities for improvement and operational excellence across your business.
Why Continuous Improvement Software?
OngoingAccumulative ROI
Continuously optimize your products, processes, and services to save bottom line revenue
Spread BestPractice Adoption
Track, manage, and encourage cross department best-practice sharing
Create an AI EnhancedImprovement Process
Save time through streamlined evaluation & implementation
Advanced Reporting& Analytics
Increase efficiency by quantifying everything that can impact the performance of your program
How Does it Work?
Challenge
Suggest
Screen
Implement
Measure & Reward
Challenge
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Challenge
Launch an improvement challenge to gather suggestions 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, and segment them however you like. Want to include customers or partners? No problem. The more the merrier!
- Customize the submission form to ensure your users are focused on what matters. Feel free to use your own methodology or framework
- 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.
Suggest
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Suggest
Your users submit their suggestions, collaborate, and vote for the ones they think are best.
- Easily allow your users to submit suggestions to improve your company’s products, services, or processes
- Suggestions are automatically scanned to identify duplicates before submission
- You can use engaging collaboration methods, including crowd voting, gamification and social functions to build better ideas together
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Screen
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Screen
Automatically progress suggestions to relevant experts to assess against predefined criteria and KPIs.
- Ideas are automatically routed to the right evaluators through AI, or based on the idea’s category and your organizational structure
- Experts evaluate custom criteria using advanced features including score cards, token voting, and much more
- 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
Manage implementation of promising ideas through built-in project tracking or 3rd party integration.
- Deliver your continuous improvement projects by creating tasks and assigning resources
- Progress ideas through your workflow stages effortlessly using our Kanban functionality
- Automate your implementation process by integrating with your PPLM tools of choice
- Track the implementation of your continuous improvement initiatives using our specific ‘adoption’ feature
Measure & Reward
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Measure & Reward
Use powerful analytics to measure results and compensate idea owners accordingly.
- Measure the ROI of each solution, and compare it across business units, functions, and categories
- Use our rich analytics dashboards and reports to track all the important KPIs which will make your process a success
- Automatically calculate the optional reward to be received by the solution owner and team where relevant
Successful, Together
With Qmarkets you are never alone. Your very own Customer Success Expert is always there to share best practices, offer friendly advice, and help you take full advantage of the platform. As part of every project, we help map out your requirements against our features, before tailoring the platform and workflow to your unique needs. You will even be supported by your peers from leading organizations around the world as part of the Qmarkets Community.
Optimization Features at Your Fingertips
My Hub
Allow users to view and manage open tasks or innovation solutions, all in one place
AI Expert Finder
Our smart AI recommends experts and team members based on previous experience and profile criteria
ROI Calculation
Compare implementation costs and revenue over time, and share with key stakeholders across the business
Alerts, Reminders, & Escalations
A variety of automated communication tools to notify users regarding any relevant action, update, or activity
Advanced Permissions Control
Define which users or teams can access which content to a precise degree
Token VotingCompetition
Distribute tokens among your users and allow them to vote for the solutions they like best
Best Practice Adoption
Track the impact of your solutions by allowing users to indicate once they have been implemented
Reward Calculation
Custom reports to automatically track the rewards earned by your users when relevant
Anonymous Submission
Reduce fear of failure by allowing users to make submissions without revealing their identity
Essential Continuous Improvement Software Integrations
Essential Continuous Improvement Software Integrations
Authentication & User Provisioning
Make it as quick and easy as possible for your whole workforce to access your system through seamless integration with your legacy employee portal or database and SSO. Import any employee data point that you see as relevant for the system.
Portfolio & Project Management
Progress ideas into projects with ease using intelligent automations to export to your preferred project management platforms.
What is Continuous Improvement?
Continuous improvement is the part of innovation management focused on consistently delivering improvements to an organization’s products, services, or processes. ‘Process improvement’ and ‘operational excellence’ are often mistakenly conflated with the term, but continuous improvement is a process that covers both all of the various approaches to incremental innovation and optimization.
Your Own Innovation Ecosystem
Unlock your organization’s full potential with software that powers all of your innovation management activities. Gather and manage trends, technologies, ideas and more, and develop them into a portfolio of innovations that deliver real ROI for your business. Start small and scale up if, how, and when you choose.
Trend Management
Trend Management
Keep your place at the cutting edge. Build a collaborative trend knowledge base to pinpoint the innovations that can have an exponential impact on your company bottom-line.
Technology Scouting
Technology Scouting
Leverage unlimited innovation intel. Tap into a global network of endless growth opportunities and collaborate with key stakeholders to manage an intelligent deal-flow process involving start-ups, experts, academia, partners, and more.
Idea Management
Idea Management
Don’t just talk about innovation, make sure it happens. Nurture a culture of collaboration to gather, evaluate, and implement impactful ideas that deliver ongoing value for your organization.
Continuous Improvement
Continuous Improvement
Operate at your maximum potential. Embed a streamlined process to continuously discover opportunities for improvement and operational excellence across your business.
Innovation Portfolio Management
Innovation Portfolio Management
Step into your personal innovation cockpit. Ensure your innovations translate into impact by tracking your whole innovation portfolio and measuring the value it delivers over time.
Trend Management
Trend Management
Keep your place at the cutting edge. Build a collaborative trend knowledge base to pinpoint the innovations that can have an exponential impact on your company bottom-line.
Technology Scouting
Technology Scouting
Leverage unlimited innovation intel. Tap into a global network of endless growth opportunities and collaborate with key stakeholders to manage an intelligent deal-flow process involving start-ups, experts, academia, partners, and more.
Idea Management
Idea Management
Don’t just talk about innovation, make sure it happens. Nurture a culture of collaboration to gather, evaluate, and implement impactful ideas that deliver ongoing value for your organization.
Continuous Improvement
Continuous Improvement
Operate at your maximum potential. Embed a streamlined process to continuously discover opportunities for improvement and operational excellence across your business.
Innovation Portfolio Management
Innovation Portfolio Management
Step into your personal innovation cockpit. Ensure your innovations translate into impact by tracking your whole innovation portfolio and measuring the value it delivers over time.
Help Your Organization
Reach its Full Potential Today
Get in touch with our team of innovation experts to see how we can help unlock your innovation potential.