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Explore Idea Drop's core features

At Idea Drop, we understand the power of fusing world-class technology with best-in-class implementation, consultancy and support.
 
It’s this unique and proven combination of people, process and technology that drives the execution and delivery of innovation programmes that transform our clients’ organisations.
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Crowdsourcing Ideas

Innovation Challenges

Open up your operational, strategic or cultural challenges to the whole organisation and then watch as the ideas and solutions roll in.

Idea Capture

With Idea Drop it is easy to capture the best ideas from everyone, everywhere. On web, iOS and Android.

Idea Cloaking

Let your colleagues hit a ‘cloak’ button when dropping an idea to hide their identity. When the idea gains traction, they can hit ‘uncloak’.

Adding links, videos and attachments

Enrich ideas, challenges and bulletins by adding links, videos and attachments for even deeper staff engagement.

Intelligent duplicate check

Our intelligent pattern recognition technology flags up similar ideas, inviting colleagues to collaborate on existing ideas before posting a new one. This prevents duplication and drives up collaboration.

Gamification

Rewards

Add rewards to challenges and increase motivation to participate.

Innovation scores

Real-time innovation scores are applied to every individual enabling you to run gamification programmes and innovation leaderboards.

Deadlines

Timebox your challenges to create urgency and drive even higher engagement.

Collaboration

@ mentions

Bring other people into the conversation to develop and evolve ideas with the help of cross-department collaboration.

Trending hashtags

Track trending hashtags and find out what topics your colleagues care about the most at the moment.

Comments

Leave comments and interact with your colleagues by providing timely, specific and frequent feedback.

Favourites

Quickly favourite an idea to let your colleagues know that you approve it and would love to see it move forward.

Communication

Real-time notifications

Alert your colleagues in real time about status changes to their ideas and other important interactions.

Email notifications

Stay up to date with what’s happening on Idea Drop with regular and on-demand email notifications.

Feedback

Close the feedback loop by providing feedback every time idea progresses towards execution.

Following individual users

Follow users and stay up to date with their ideas and latest activities on Idea Drop.

Idea Evaluation

Idea score

Every idea has a real-time score which is automatically given by our algorithm based on social interactions and is visible across your community.

Smart search

Idea Drop quickly transforms into a valuable internal knowledge base via powerful and smart search functionality.

Advanced filtering tools

Use advanced filters to sort your feed, cut and slice the data to access the most important data in seconds.

Categories

Categorise ideas so they can easily reach the best person to review and progress it.

Actioning ideas

Pipeline

Our kanban-style workflow board gives every user a visual overview of the status of every idea. Quickly see what stage
of your innovation process an idea is at, and move them seamlessly through phases of development.

Bulletins

Quickly post updates to your colleagues when ideas have been actioned or implemented. It is a great way to drive deeper engagement on ongoing platform use.

Idea statuses

Keep everyone in tune with what’s happening with their ideas via one-click status changes, enabling you to move ideas through a structured process of evaluation, refinement and review.

Measuring and reporting

Dashboard

Idea Drop’s dashboard allows admins to get a real-time snapshot on what’s happening across the platform, easily identify the best ideas, discover the most innovative team members and customise the platform so it aligns perfectly with your business objectives.

Reports

We’ll work with you to design exportable reports and analytics that are meaningful and help track the ongoing success of the programme and identify areas for improvement.

Team management

Groups and their owners

Create groups that mirror the internal structure of your business and assign owners responsible for making sure submitted ideas get the attention they need.

Admins

Assign super users who have the control over managing users, creating categories and groups, posting challenges, running reports and much more.

Moderators

Moderators have the possibility to publish ideas, challenges and bulletins on the platform and are generally viewed as Idea Drop platform managers.

Users

Users can submit ideas and interact with their colleagues’ ideas.

User profiles

Every colleague has their own profile, making it easy to discover new people and connections in different teams.

Customisation

Unique workflow

Define your innovation workflow and replicate it on Idea Drop’s Pipeline view.

Bespoke idea evaluation metrics

Define idea evaluation metrics that are important to you and embed them into Idea Drop’s platform.

Branding

With the help of our design team make Idea Drop look and feel more of your own. Add your logo and brand colours.

Accessibility

Web browser

The Idea Drop platform is available and accessible via web browser on laptop and desktop.

iOs & Android

Make ideation effortless by downloading Idea Drop’s stunning native mobile app on your phone.

Integration

Yammer

Cross-share ideas and challenges on Idea Drop via our integration with Microsoft Yammer.

SSO

SSO integration reduces login friction for your users, makes it fast and easy to mirror your organisational structure and reduces the administrative burden on new starters and leavers, as everything dynamically syncs in real-time. Learn more.

Microsoft teams integration

Microsoft Teams

You can instantly publish your Innovation Challenge on Microsoft Teams and let your employees know that you’d like their input. Simply broadcast your Challenge to MS Teams and watch all the great ideas rolling in.

slack integration

Slack

Our Slack integration allows you to trigger a message to be sent to a slack channel once your challenge has been posted on Idea Drop.

Customer Success

Implementation & support

Benefit from our best-in-class implementation, consultancy and support services to accelerate the rollout and adoption of Idea Drop across your organisation.

Webinars

Live and pre-recorded webinars to onboard and train new Idea Drop users and moderators.

Online chat

Our team of product and innovation experts are standing by to help. Just send us message via in-app chat whenever you have a question or would like to share your feedback with us.

Help Centre

Access our video guides and step-by-step articles to get the most of Idea Drop.

Ready to see Idea Drop in action?

Request a demo today and our team of enterprise innovation experts will be in touch straight away to set up a one-to-one discovery session and demo.

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