Overview

Sciforma Idea and Demand Management is a comprehensive solution designed to capture, evaluate, and prioritize ideas and demands across an organization. It facilitates collaboration and transparency in the innovation pipeline by providing a structured platform to manage new initiatives from conception to approval. The solution supports organizations in optimizing their portfolio by aligning ideas and demands with strategic goals, ensuring that resources focus on the most valuable projects. It integrates easily within the broader project and portfolio management ecosystem, enabling data-driven decision-making to foster growth and innovation.

Features and Capabilities

• **Centralized idea capture platform: **Enables organization-wide submission and consolidation of innovative ideas in a structured environment.
• **Structured evaluation workflows: **Guides submitted ideas through defined assessment steps to evaluate feasibility, ROI, and strategic fit.
• **Demand management tools: **Consolidates project and initiative requests, helping teams prioritize based on urgency, value, and capacity.
• **Customizable scoring models: **Allows configuration of criteria and weightings to align idea evaluation with strategic business objectives.
• **Collaborative stakeholder engagement: **Provides built-in tools for comments, voting, and reviews to ensure broad participation in idea refinement.
• **Automated routing and approvals: **Streamlines the review and approval process with rules-based workflows to reduce delays and manual steps.
• **Real-time dashboards and reports: **Offers instant visibility into idea status, evaluation metrics, and demand pipeline health via intuitive visuals.
• **Seamless PPM integration: **Connects directly with Sciforma’s project and portfolio management capabilities for end-to-end execution.
• **Multi-source intake support: **Accepts requests from different departments, systems, or channels—unifying fragmented intake processes.
• **Audit trails and historical tracking: **Maintains complete records of submissions, decisions, and status changes for transparency and compliance.
• **Role-based access controls: **Protects sensitive data with permissions tailored to user roles and organizational hierarchy.
• **Customizable input forms and templates: **Ensures consistent data capture with configurable fields aligned to different initiative types or departments.
• **Mobile-friendly submission access: **Allows employees to capture and submit ideas from anywhere using mobile devices.
• **Automated alerts and notifications: **Keeps contributors and reviewers informed of status changes, upcoming reviews, and new submissions.