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DirectSuggest's award-winning employee suggestion box app streamlines the employee feedback process so employees can be easily heard and their company can effectively leverage their collective knowledge. We make it simple for employees to make suggestions on any device surrounding company created categories with the assurance they automatically arrive to the proper decision-maker. Every employee can also collaborate on suggestions via voting and commenting to enhance the quality of ideas. DirectSuggest only costs $0.50 per employee per month, and we have incredibly high ROI/Savings potential with an average 33X return on investment. The implementation process is also quite easy, and normally upon being committed and properly prepared to do so, setting up DirectSuggest from start to finish can be completed in as quickly as a week or less.

Ideawake is an easy to use, AI enabled idea management platform that makes it easy to capture, evaluate, and take action on ideas from those who know the most about your organization. Ideawake provides a one-stop platform for facilitating innovation challenges, hackathons, kaizen events, continuous improvement programs and open innovation initiatives from initial sourcing of ideas to measuring ROI. Ideawake is trusted by 100 employee startups to leading Fortune 500 companies to enable a culture of innovation, drive financial results, and increase employee engagement at scale. Our platform is currently powering innovation programs in 39 countries in 17 different industries including manufacturing, technology, healthcare, financial services, retail, hospitality, and pharmaceuticals. Some of our notable customers include US Bank, Sirius XM, Jason’s Deli, HP, Mercury Marine, and Nerolac Paints. Book a demo today to experience Ideawake in action.

HYPE Boards is an agile innovation tool designed to decentralize and accelerate innovation across your organization. Built for agility and intuitive use, HYPE Boards empowers teams to innovate at the speed of change. Our platform streamlines idea collection, automates workflows, and supports the validation of hypotheses, all within one user-friendly interface. Whether you're hosting brainstorming sessions, running workshops, working on incremental improvements or want to iterate on your next big idea by testing assumptions, HYPE Boards equips your team to drive innovation faster and more effectively. HYPE Boards shines in its ability to support bottom-up innovation, making it perfect for organizations eager to speed up their innovation processes. HYPE Boards breaks down silos and creates a dynamic, transparent environment where every team member can contribute to meaningful innovation, no matter their role or location, shaping a true culture of innovation.

Aha! is the world's #1 product management software. We help more than 1 million product builders go from discovery to delivery and bring their strategy to life. Our integrated tools empower teams to go from discovery to delivery with AI. The suite includes Aha! Roadmaps, Aha! Discovery, Aha! Ideas, Aha! Whiteboards, Aha! Builder, Aha! Develop, Aha! Teamwork, and Aha! Knowledge. Each product serves a clear purpose: Aha! Roadmaps is the complete product management solution. Aha! Discovery is the new way to manage customer interviews. Aha! Ideas is the comprehensive idea management solution. Aha! Whiteboards is the visual space for product innovation. Aha! Builder is the fastest way to create trusted business applications. Aha! Develop is the agile tool that links strategy to delivery. Aha! Teamwork is the flexible project management tool. Aha! Knowledge is the product information hub.

#1 Idea- and Innovation Management Platform. Collect, develop, and implement the greatest ideas from workers and customers. Ideanote leads to more successful innovation, business success, engaged workers, and happy customers. Instantly create idea collections, manage ideas better, and track innovation impact. Businesses of all sizes - from Roche to Pleo - trust Ideanote to accelerate their innovation. COLLECT IDEAS. Launch goal-driven idea collections where you solve challenges together. ENGAGE PEOPLE. With Ideanote, you can be where your people are and make innovation simple and engaging or everyone. MANAGE IDEAS. Prioritize incoming ideas and take the best to action faster with a fully stacked end-to-end idea management suite. top innovators, track your impact, and easily communicate your innovation success with a platform that tracks your performance from day one. AUTOMATE INNOVATION. Seamlessly automate your innovation with 100+ integrations and custom workflows.

Drive business success through employee ideas with Sideways 6, the revolutionary idea management software native to Microsoft Teams, Viva Engage, Interact and Workplace by Meta. Running ideas programs at scale can be difficult to execute with impact. Our solution makes it easy for companies to gather and organize employee ideas ensuring that no great idea goes unnoticed. Our platform allows companies to quickly and easily assess the potential of each idea and make informed decisions for maximum impact whilst engaging employees. By using Sideways 6, businesses experience a significant increase in resource efficiency (£12m saved and 101k hours saved by Balfour Beatty in 2022 alone), productivity (Nestle ideated 155 new products to take to market), and engagement (16% increase in employee engagement at DXC). Find out why the likes of Rio Tinto, British Airways, Vodafone and Marks and Spencer trust the Sideways 6 approach.

ITONICS is a modular platform for enterprise R&D, strategy, product, and innovation teams to decide which initiatives to fund, stop, or scale. It replaces spreadsheets and slide decks with one system of record for technology and trend scouting, strategic planning, idea management, project portfolio management, roadmapping, and board-ready reporting. ITONICS Prism, the platform’s agentic AI, works on governed company data: it builds technology radars from 500M+ curated signals, ranks startups by strategic fit, turns ideas into business cases, and flags projects that slip, drift from strategy, or duplicate others. Customers report measurable results: Dräxlmaier cut manual reporting by 70%, KSB reduced idea-to-implementation time by 60%, and Toyota manages 200+ R&D projects on the platform. More than 500 organizations, including adidas, Siemens, Bosch, Roche, and Thales, use ITONICS. ISO 27001 certified, SOC 2 and GDPR compliant.

Agorize is a leader in innovation management software fueled by a community of 10 million startups & innovators, and a team of experts. We’ve been awarded as a leader with ‘best-estimated RoI’ by G2 and have helped enterprise companies launch 7000+ innovation programs, turning transformational ideas into tangible outcomes. Agorize IDEA BOX: Collect, assess and develop the best ideas from your ecosystem of employees, customers, partners, and more. Agorize INNOVATION: Identify and develop innovative solutions for your business leveraging the ideas of startups, students and innovators. Agorize HACKATHONS: Engage developers across the world on important problem statements. Agorize AWARDS: Reward and celebrate innovative talent in your organization. "Instead of the usual 24 months to launch a product, we released our new product in unprecedented speed: 9 months!" - PepsiCo Global Talent Management Director

The Nosco idea and innovation management platform helps your company to ensure the continuous inflow of high-quality ideas to your innovation pipeline. Whether you start with one internal idea campaign, multiple campaigns, open innovation, hackathons or innovation challenges - the platform enables organisations to scale innovation efforts. From idea conception to investment and incubation, the Nosco platform along with experienced consultants' knowledge can be used to rally organisations around core strategic challenges.

An innovation management platform for intrapreneurship and startup accelerator programs. It enables to engage stakeholders in e-learning, idea generation, business modeling, online mentoring, and peer-collaboration. The platform is used by Google, Bayer, the United Nations, EY, Bosch, BT, etc. It hosts the largest online impact accelerator network (e.g. Yunus & Youth, Rockstart, Berkeley University, the British Council, etc.) as well as a network of 1500+ social ventures from 116 countries.

Influence and change how your business stays competitive by using the SAP Innovation Management solution to collect and validate ideas anytime and anywhere and turn the best ones into valuable assets. Research and develop local and global idea campaigns that foster innovation engagement through shared ideas and experiences. Set up an innovation office to discover and exploit the secret to innovation effectiveness with better knowledge management. Interact, collaborate, and participate in the innovation R&D processes anywhere, anytime, and with any mobile device. Single, context-aware search box for ideas, campaigns, users, and organizations. Follow the setup instructions so you can start running your SAP software quickly and confidently.

Planbox is the pioneering agile innovation management platform software provider for full lifecycle Innovation Portfolio Management, Emerging Tech Empowerment and Ecosystem Enablement. Planbox is recognized by Forrester as the top-ranking innovation management platform in the marketplace, having received the highest score in strategy and current offering in the Forrester Wave: Innovation Management Platforms, Q1, 2020. As the most robust and scalable platform on the market, we empower our clients to discover, collaborate and capitalize on the best strategically aligned concepts with their ecosystem of employees, customers, suppliers, partners, startups, academia, government and the general public to pursue breakthrough innovations, create a sustainable continuous improvement program, build a framework for corporate venturing and action on consumer insights.

rready builds sovereign enterprise software for work and innovation: from the European alternative to Jira & Confluence to AI-native innovation management - trusted by organizations including BMW, Tetra Pak, and Swisscom. rready work – sovara: A sovereign European alternative to Jira and Confluence, designed to give enterprises full control over systems, data, workflows, and the evolution of their technology landscape. Built for regulated environments, it combines predictable pricing, strong governance, and operational continuity with a future-ready architecture, without compromising stability. rready innovate: AI-native solutions for idea management, intrapreneurship, and continuous improvement. From initial concept through to measurable business impact, the platform enables structured, scalable, and secure innovation across the organization. Our mission is to give enterprises full ownership of how they manage work and drive innovation, now and in the future.