HYPE Innovation offers innovation management software and services, offering tools to address a range of innovation scenarios. HYPE lets organizations engage employees, customers, and partners in idea generation and collaborative problem-solving. HYPE Enterprise is presented as value creation hub, allowing innovation activities to be tracked on a unified platform.
HYPE states its client community includes global companies such as Airbus, AkzoNobel, ConocoPhillips, Deutsche Post DHL Group,…
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Planview IdeaPlace
Score 8.5 out of 10
Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
Planview IdeaPlace offers an integrated, configurable “idea-to-impact” innovation management solution to capture, evaluate, and prioritize ideas and includes: Unified Innovation Ecosystem: Unifies innovation activity into a single value delivery system keeping an organization, processes, objectives, and customers aligned. Democratized Ideation: Captures and synthesizes ideas from everyone, whether a top-down challenge or proposed by a user. …
Idea Generation campaigns aimed at solving a specific problem. Contributors can be limited to certain groups, or it can be open to the whole organization.
Open Innovation campaigns aimed at getting solutions from external sources (add-on module required).
Continuous improvement process specific to functional areas.
Processing, sorting, evaluating and scoring ideas.
If you have a community with more than 100 active users, and you're looking for ideas around operational improvements that can be acted on in a 6-12 month window, Spigit will work great, and it's one of the best options out there. If you're trying to customize the platform much, you should plan on paying Spigit's service group to do that for you, because it's not easy to do yourself. If you're looking for ideas that will take more than about a year to implement, Spigit is as good as anyone else because that's a really tough thing to do in an innovation community!
Hype Innovation allows for a full onsite implementation behind a firewall and does not need to communicate to an external server. This is a major advantage for a defense company.
Hype Innovation is easily configurable by a systems admin with very limited knowledge of the product.
Product Updates are rolled out quarterly and offered to all clients.
Hype Innovation has a specific instance of their Hype software platform that is aimed at their clients and improving Hype itself. Feedback from their management is very quick.
Acknowledges and supports the culture around the problem and market it is trying to serve. Just using the platform won't solve our problem, we need a cultural shift and Spigit has helped support that process.
Customer service - just overall amazing service. Responses are very quickly turned around, they've gone the extra mile many, many times. They are also very open to platform improvements and take feedback very seriously.
As the system administrator, I feel their platform incorporates a great balance of templates, out-of-the-box formatting, etc., and customizable content. In a nutshell, we are able to do what we want but we don't have to spend forever to do it. We can use what they have or we can add in our own design.
This rating was given because, Planview is an establish platform used within the organisation for number of years, therefore is a well known platform by the wider business community. Reusing Planview was ease due to user familiarity with the platform, so use of Planview IdeaPlace was logical and reduce the learning curve for users.
Planview IdeaPlace (IP) stacked up very well against our old product, for example Planview IdeaPlace features and integrations with Microsoft O365 products was major attraction. Our leadership also has a simplification agenda, so the reuse of Planview IdeaPlace for this capability, tick all the right boxes and help use achieved a key CIO objective.
Longstanding issues with products and services have been made visible to the wider company and many solutions have been identified.
A common idea management platform has allowed management to gauge the level of employee involvement and cross functional communication.
Safe storage and archiving of ideas has enabled the company to keep track of inputs over time and refer back to ideas that were not relevant at the time of generation.
The added workload of managing the innovation platform has meant that more money has had to be spent on the individual responsible for the platform.
I've seen ideas that could have come through existing channels but may have faced layers of barriers before getting to the right decision makers bypass all of that bureaucracy and get the level of support needed to proceed. In one case, the value of just one of those ideas created a 27x ROI over the annual expense of running the software and the supporting team. In other words, that one idea justifies the existence of the program for 2 1/2 more decades if there are no other wins.
Because the program can literally engage every employee, it tends to be the most visible and tangible innovation asset for the masses. Along side (and connected with) other innovation capabilities like internal incubators, R&D labs, design teams, lean programs, etc., it tends to be the tool that delivers on a strategy of total employee engagement for enterprise wide innovation. Employee perception of innovation has improved significantly since the inception of this program.
The software can be used in other ways beyond innovation ideation to drive corporate values, employee engagement, and employee feedback and insights. In nearly every deployment where I have been involved, we have found ways beyond ideation to engage crowds to generate other value for the business. In each case, this was engagement that could not have been delivered in any other way except for a crowd-sourcing technology like Spigit.
