Benefits of using IdeasTracker

IdeasTracker can help your company regardless of size and industry. IdeasTracker:

• Focuses on making and saving your company money through capturing innovative ideas, subjecting them to peer review, then tracking their implementation across different branches, and tallying ROI - you gain a competitive advantage by being able to maximise innovation in your company
• Improves communication between departments and branches
• Reduces the time spent reinventing processes, especially in different geographic locations
• Reduces the time spent regenerating knowledge which already exists
• Minimises the effect of staff churn as new employees can learn quickly, and departing employees have passed on some of their knowledge
• Provides a platform to spread best practises, cost saving ideas, safety protocols and other information throughout your company
• Provides a channel for you to engage your customers as well as your staff
• Allows you to store all kinds of information such as online training, Word documents, media, etc - it can also function as an out-of-the-box intranet/knowledge management system if you don't already have one, or link it to your existing intranet for added functionality.

What problems is IdeasTracker designed to solve or alleviate?

• Low moral and sense of powerlessness amongst staff
• High staff turnover leading to loss of knowledge and associated recruitment and training costs
• Inequitable rewards system which can only reward a certain group of staff due to their company role rather than their creative input
• Lack of motivation
• Lack of communication between departments
• Stagnation of innovation
• Reinvention of processes, particularly in different geographical locations
• Regeneration of existing knowledge
• The company has a problem attracting and retaining talented people due to the workplace being unrewarding, or the culture not conducive to nurturing talent or having a 'purpose.'
• Staff frustration at disorganised knowledge or inaccessible knowledge
• No mechanism for tracking the implementation stage of ideas, or where they are implemented
• No understanding by management of the return on investment available via innovation
• An insular protective corporate culture with fiefdoms, abuse of power through knowledge hoarding, backstabbing and political manoeuvring
• No mechanism for collaborating with other employees or sourcing other employees with specific knowledge
• Loss of knowledge through redundancy
• Training not easily available
• Management not capitalising on opportunities or keeping up with general business innovation
• Low level of interdepartmental communication
• No recognition of talented employees
• A large number of mobile employees or employees working from home who could potentially feel isolated from the general business of the company
• Lack of documentation of a company's intellectual capital
• Problems resulting from lack of awareness of procedures, such as ISO standards, safety standards, etc, resulting in costly errors or litigation against the company
• Lagging, underdeveloped or undeveloped intellectual capital compared to competitors
• Management objectives, goals and vision not completely understood by staff.

Use the menu on the left to view real world examples of how IdeasTracker might be able to help your company. If you're using IdeasTracker in a unique way, email us and let us know. Because IdeasTracker is so versatile, it may pay to have a look at a number of the examples - they're bound to be relevant to your company in some way.

Brainstorming sessions can be made more productive with IdeasTracker. After the sessions are finished, make all the ideas available as Topics and you'll have the collective creative power of your entire company at your disposal. You can even track the implementation of successful ideas, measuring ROI.