Liberate the untapped creativity in your organization and Innovate!

Many leading corporations in fields as diverse as Finance, Manufacturing, Healthcare, Retail, Government, Utilities, Defense ...  use active idea programs automated with PrIsM ideas management software to liberate the untapped creativity and innovation in their organization.

They know that our next generation idea management software can provide a route to cost reduction and additional income generation, but they also recognize that an active ideas management program offers many other improvements to the way their organization performs by:

• Fostering an environment of change and continuous improvement

• Improving customer satisfaction, and driving  the ability to respond to the marketplace using idea management software

• Increasing employee participation and innovation

• Providing an unfiltered channel providing feed-back on changes to policy and process.

• Intelligence gathering and idea management

• Identifying training needs

Don't perptuate that failed old Ideas Box on the wall  ...

We all know that employee ideas management systems  or idea programs are nothing new. We also remember those failed "idea boxes on the wall" of yesteryear - how can you avoid repeating this mistake in the form of a poorly designed idea management system? ISDE's Prism idea software taps into the benefits latent in the organization by avoiding the following common pitfalls:

• Lack of Top Management support - no visibility of what the idea management program achieves

• Poor automation overloading the committed resource, and unable to track idea progress over lengthy lifetimes.

• Poor Employee motivation, because ideas get lost under Administrator overload and don't get implemented

• Poor communication about progress to the Suggestor

• Failure to manage the evaluation of ideas

• Failure to recognize the contribution for ideas

Six reasons to use the world's best software for ideas management ... Your idea management program deserves the best idea management software

1. PrIsM is tailored to YOUR process

Each idea program has process features that make it unique - that's why PrIsM has been designed for rapid, affordable tailoring.
No off the shelf package can hope to cope effectively with the range of process variations in ideas management without costly and inefficient work-arounds, or worse still force you to change your process.  PrIsM is easy-to-use, because it implements your process.

2. Full lifecycle coverage.

A tailored PrIsM package has everything you need to run a successful ideas program from capturing ideas from your intranet or on paper form to handling all your automated communications to producing detailed management information at the touch of a button.

3. Evaluator Support Package (ESP).

By supporting the evaluation of ideas with ESP we have made evaluating ideas as simple as opening an email and filling out a web form.  Evaluators have their own evaluation data space to perform multi-phase evaluations, store partially complete evaluations and review previous returns. More details here

4. Capitalize on your intranet.

PrIsM is designed to make the best use of intranet technology and maximize the availability of information to your employees. More details here

5. PrIsM is tried and tested.

PrIsM ideas management software is currently managing ideas for organizations across all sectors of the economy - government, manufacturing, financial services, retail, police services and more. PrIsM is highly scalable - some of our customers have over 50,000 employees and are handling hundreds of ideas each week.

6. Happy Customers.

Most importantly - the people who use our ideas management software in their idea program . We pride ourselves on having customers who are happy with what we and PrIsM provide for their idea program and are glad to have made the decision to purchase. We have several detailed case studies available and many more customers who are willing to recommend PrIsM to you.

PrIsM is much more than just a database ...

Any database can store your ideas, but an idea system ,  powered by PrIsM ideas management software will effectively automate the repetitive, non-value adding activities in your process , giving you more time to manage what matters in your idea program.

You need more than just a database to manage your ideas. Does your database do the following for you?

• Keep track of many ideas through complex lifecycle over long timescales ?

• Provide audit trail?

• Automatically update suggestors on the progress of ideas?

• Handle personalized communication to employees with and without email?

• Handle duplicate ideas efficiently?

• Ensure evaluations are accepted by the evaluator within and agreed time or returned for reallocation?

• Automatically chase evaluators and suggestors when ideas are overdue?

• Allow knowledge sharing through on-line searches?

• Manage your reward process?

• Handle submissions when not all employees have access to PCs?

• Have an integrated report package to quickly provide text and graphical management reporting?

PrIsM's tailorability

There are many online packages on the market at the moment, but few have the power of PrIsM's tailorability.

• The process is YOUR process

• The system knows the process and prompts the next step automatically

• Submission forms customized especially for your organization
  

• View the progress of ideas online as well as receiving automated updates via personalized communication and/or email
  

• Optional online management reporting component to allow anyone to see your reports at the touch of a button
  

More details here

 
ISDE can help you plan the introduction of ideas management.

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Easy creation of ad-hoc management reports

Both PrIsM and ESP systems come with advanced reporting functions which are also simple to use. 

Reports types encompass:

• text based reports and powerful customizable charts
• counts within a date period
• breakdown by field value

   

Graphical and textual reports created at the touch of a button

Reports usually come in two different types. The ones you know that are needed month on month ...
	... and those you've never dreamt of  ... that are needed five minutes ago!

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