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Categories/HR & Recruiting/Sideways 6
Sideways 6

Sideways 6

Founded 2014

Collect, evaluate, and implement employee ideas directly inside Microsoft Teams and business intranets

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You can use Sideways 6 to collect, evaluate, and act on employee suggestions across your organization. It connects directly with workplace tools like Microsoft Teams and company intranets so employees can share improvement ideas without creating new accounts. Machine learning algorithms automatically detect duplicate submissions, group related trends, and highlight high-potential cost-saving initiatives. Review teams can organize voting, assign expert evaluations, track implementation progress, and quantify financial savings, turning frontline operational feedback into continuous business improvement across departments and remote job sites.

What Sideways 6 does

Capture employee ideas via Microsoft TeamsDetect and merge duplicate employee submissionsAssign innovation proposals to subject matter expertsRun targeted cost-saving idea campaignsTrack implementation stages of approved proposalsMeasure financial return and hours saved from adopted ideasReview and shortlist frontline operational suggestionsIntegrates idea capture directly into Microsoft Teams and intranet portalsUses automated algorithms to find duplicate submissions and cluster trendsEnriches and scores idea submissions automatically to improve proposal qualityAssigns specialist reviewers and workflows to evaluate business casesMonitors implementation stages from concept approval to rolloutCalculates cost savings, hours saved, and ROI for realized ideasRuns structured employee crowdsourcing challenges and continuous feedback campaigns

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