CAPTURE is an idea management platform designed to help organizations crowdsource, collaborate on, and manage innovative ideas to solve business challenges and identify opportunities.
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CAPTURE provides a comprehensive idea management solution that empowers organizations to engage their people and external audiences in crowdsourcing and co-creating innovative solutions. The platform facilitates the launch of engaging, time-bound innovation challenges, allowing businesses to focus ideation efforts on strategically relevant areas and align collected ideas with specific business goals. It enables cross-functional collaboration to break organizational silos, connecting individuals with diverse skills and mindsets to collectively brainstorm and refine ideas. CAPTURE supports both internal and external innovation contests, leveraging positive competition to generate new perspectives and alternative solutions. Beyond structured challenges, it offers an 'always-on' idea collection mechanism, ensuring that valuable insights and unforeseen improvement opportunities can emerge at any time. The system allows for distributed workload management, enabling different parts of an organization to manage their own idea pipelines and maintain an organized idea portfolio with custom processes for various innovation types. It enhances idea quality through next-generation collaboration tools, including feedback-based voting with an advanced scoring system to surface the most promising ideas and avoid popularity contests. Users can easily track changes and comments, while significant contributions are recognized, fostering continuous engagement. The platform also supports co-creation, allowing multiple users to team up on idea submissions.
Features & Benefits
- Challenge-Driven Innovation
- Enables the launch of compelling, time-bound innovation campaigns to gather focused ideas aligned with business goals.
- Launch visually engaging challenges in minutes
- Create custom submission forms
- Drive collaboration around what matters most
- Collaborative Idea Management & Co-creation
- Fosters higher engagement levels through multiple contribution methods, allowing teams to co-create better solutions and break organizational silos.
- Connects people with complementary skills
- Supports co-authoring of ideas
- Recognizes valuable contributions
- Always-On Idea Collection
- Provides a continuous channel for people to share ideas as they emerge, surfacing unforeseen improvement and growth opportunities.
- Allows everyone to have a voice
- Creates listening posts for insights
- Avoids tunnel vision
- Distributed Workload & Portfolio Management
- Facilitates managing innovation at scale by allowing different organizational units to manage their own idea pipelines and maintain an organized portfolio.
- Organize ideas in categories
- Design custom processes for each idea type
- Personalize submission and assessment criteria
- Idea Refinement & Quality Improvement
- Enhances the quality of ideas through next-generation collaboration tools and a unique feedback-based voting system.
- Enrich ideas with actionable feedback
- Uncover weaknesses and improvement opportunities
- Avoid unwanted popularity contests
- Engagement & Contribution Recognition
- Keeps users engaged by providing clear visibility into changes and comments, and recognizing significant contributions.
- Users can follow ideas and receive notifications
- Authors can invite followers for review
- Quality participation is recognized with badges