Both demand and supply are growing for technologies in all facets of innovation. Idea Management, New Product Development and many other specialist innovation software packages exist and contribute to innovation.

Managing ideas, IP and knowledge however is not just about software and processes. Managing ideas successfully is reliant upon people. With people comes a plethora of issues such as: trust, leadership, involvement, participation and of course culture. Staff will need to be engaged and need to want to be involved for ideas to be entered, captured, categorised and evaluated for potential commercialisation

There are many software solutions available to assist innovation systems. There is also the opportunity to use existing software systems or to design and build new ones. However the critical thing is that the software decisions are put in context. In innovation the order of events is usually best when structured as; People, culture, business processes, and then software to match. Choosing software first or building software early can create problems or can damage innovation capability building projects.

We help you design your own innovation system. Systems that fit with your culture and your people.

i2B Performer, is owned and manged by Ideas Accelerator Limited and is an intranet/internet platform that enables idea and opportunity capture, categorisation, evaluation, development and launch. It holds a set of easily customisable innovation and evaluation templates and reports more>>