As the global leader in Innovation Management software, brightidea.com has driven more success than any other Innovation Management solution. The brightidea.com solution delivers more features, more powerful customization, easier integration, and the best overall end-user experience. And best of all, it can all be deployed immediately around the globe. Get started today!

Developed for mid-size organizations and divisions of large companies, brightidea.com is designed to assist managers in all areas of innovation with templates and workflows specifically designed for accelerating new product development, process improvement, intellectual property, information technology adoption, marketing strategy and business model Innovation. The On Demand software service is comprised of seven integrated modules that include:

Research – Secure, shared weblogs allow participants to track emerging trends, competition, and areas of opportunity. Research Blogs ensure organizations stay abreast of market developments while maintaining a permanent record of all research.

Idea Management – Highly-configurable idea ranking engine allows managers to rapidly identify the most promising innovations in an organization. Ideas are ranked by a variety of proprietary methods based on type of innovation desired. Managers can request ideas in specific areas of opportunity or collect unsolicited ideas from employees, customers, and suppliers. Idea Management accelerates identification of viable concepts while ensuring non-viable proposals are discontinued early.

Project Tracking – Flexible, phase-based tracking system for managing projects in the innovation pipeline. Gives managers visibility into all projects underway and their progress. Project tracking ensures that on-going projects are strategically aligned, properly vetted at each step, and stay on-track throughout the implementation process.

Expert Location – Easy-to-use search function allows users to locate experts for help with questions/problems. Users can search expert profiles and content in the innovation management system to locate experts, regardless of location or department in the organization.

Rewards & Recognition – End-to-end solution that tracks individual contributions to the innovation program. Points are accumulated for selected activities and achievements. Rewards & Recognition tracks redemption for gifts, awards or cash to ensure that key players in the innovation process are recognized and proper records are maintained.

Innovation Financials – Tightly integrated financials capture and summarize the net financial impact of all innovation related activities including time applied, out-of-pocket expenditures, implementation costs, rewards, cost-savings, and revenues. Innovation financials ensure that the real costs of ‘unstructured work’ are captured and that forecasted cash flows can be compared against actual cash flows.

Analytics – Intuitive metrics and analytics make the innovation process more visible and manageable. Configurable reports and activity dashboards ensure managers have the information they need to make informed decisions on managing the innovation process.

Archive – Permanent, searchable archive that stores a record of all research posts, ideas, projects, tasks and decisions. Reduces rework when staff or roles change. Useful for retracing where successful projects originated from and the decision process on why projects were discontinued.