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Brightidea

Brightidea

Founded 1999

Collect, evaluate, and track employee innovation ideas across an entire enterprise

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★ People love it

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Quick Setup (< 1 hour)

You can use Brightidea to crowdsource creative ideas from your workforce, run company hackathons, and track business initiatives from concept to execution. The system lets global teams set up business challenges, collect submissions, collaborate on virtual whiteboards, and vote on potential projects. Decision makers can evaluate submissions against organizational criteria, manage innovation labs or accelerators, and measure financial impact and ROI to turn staff concepts into measurable business outcomes.

What Brightidea does

Launch company-wide innovation challenges for specific business problemsCollect idea submissions from employees across global officesScore and rank submitted concepts using custom evaluation metricsOrganize collaborative digital whiteboard workshopsCoordinate schedule, judging, and team signups for internal hackathonsTrack financial returns and implementation milestones for approved initiativesDigital whiteboards for collaborative brainstorming sessionsIdea boxes to gather unstructured employee suggestions anytimeHackathon management modules to organize internal competitionsChallenge setup to target specific strategic business problemsScoring scorecards to evaluate concepts against objective business criteriaPortfolio tracking dashboards to monitor project execution and financial ROIEnterprise accelerator pipelines to incubate and test experimental programs

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Frequently asked

Slack, Microsoft Teams, Jira, ServiceNow, Asana, Monday.com, Salesforce, Zapier, Jira (Project tracking), Microsoft Teams (Collaboration), Slack (Notifications), Salesforce (CRM data), ServiceNow (ITSM), Asana (Task management), Monday.com (Work OS), Zapier (Automation), Microsoft Teams (Native), Slack (Native), Jira (Bi-directional), ServiceNow (ITSM Sync), Salesforce (CRM), Power BI (Reporting), Azure Active Directory, Airtable

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