How it works
Users submit ideas and their peers vote, comment and share. The most favorable ideas are funneled through a configurable workflow. Ideas that are favorable then get support for validation and have a chance to be chosen for implementation. Innovation for the best, at its best.
Idea Collection
Your ideas are great when you are the only person evaluating them. Ideas gain value when you bounce them off other people and real-world variables. Innovation Station gives everyone a voice to share ideas anonymously through a mobile-friendly interface. People share ideas to positively change their world, the comfort of anonymity enables more truth and less bias, and most organizations have perk$ for users who submit top ideas.
Saving Millions
Lynden Tennison, Union Pacific Chief Information Officer, implemented Innovation Station to spur innovation in a 150-year-old Fortune 200 railroad. Information Technology employees post their innovative ideas anonymously for peer evaluation. If their idea gets 80% 'up' votes they get $3,000 and 120 hours of work time to create a prototype. They also get an 'idea coach', who is a randomly assigned executive of Union Pacific to assist with idea validation. The innovative employee then presents their idea and prototype to senior leaders who help move the idea to full implementation. The $10 million Tennison estimates in annual benefit from Innovation Station comes mostly from one idea, which fixed an error in a rail wayside tracking system that was causing trains to needlessly stop.
Interactive Workflow
Ideas flow naturally through collection to validation to implementation. This intuitive workflow allows flexibility to configure and manage each stage of the innovation process. Innovation customized and made simple.
Reporting & Analytics
Data is beautiful. Innovation Station provides all the graphs, charts, and exportable tables you need to direct innovation in your organization. The dashboard provides insight on overall performance of the innovation pipeline. With social analytics it is easy to manage trends, community behavior, and actionable data.
Branding
We want you to feel at home which is why Innovation Station can be branded to display your organization's logo, colors, and email templates.
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