Agile Innovation Process Management using SharePoint

Creating, driving, and managing an innovation process is a challenge all organizations face.  What is the right process?  Will my organization adopt the process and tools?  How will we create visibility and accountability?  How will we learn from our experience and institutionalize our learning?

For organizations that have standardized on SharePoint as an enterprise platform, InnovaGate is the answer.  InnovaGate is a configurable innovation process management tool that is developed on top of the SharePoint platform.  InnovaGate supports ideation, idea management, innovation process management, and phase-gate methodologies.

Benefits

• Adaptable to your innovation processes using administrative configuration screens
• Quick time to benefit – up in a matter of days for well-defined processes
• Insures process quality and provides consistency of tasks, deliverables, and ratings
• Insures schedules are met by creating visibility at all levels of the organization
• Increases process and tool adoption with reduced organizational friction
• Supports learning and continuous improvement

Key Features

Phase-Gate Innovation Process Management Collaborative innovation sites are created which include team members, roles, tasks, and deliverables Innovators perform their daily work in the innovation sites Flexible innovation evaluation and scoring by phase Gate reviews with enforceable business rules for dispositions Intelligent process control with integrated navigation and insights Process views by category, function, and person Flexible reporting

Challenge Management  Enables business leaders to identify, develop, and publish innovation challenges in support of organizational strategy and initiatives Challenge listings for innovators to find published challenges and supporting information Submission of new ideas for specific challenges Collaboration for challenge leaders to view ideas and engage with innovators

Innovation Sites Stakeholders perform their daily work  in innovation sites Task management Deliverable management Collaboration Disposition

Dashboards Management views Process Category Function Personal

Configurability Processes Data collection elements Phases Site Content Roles, team, security, and task assignment by phase Idea and Project Routing

Deliverables Scoring and evaluation Alerts Dispositions Categories and functions Connectivity to other systems such as ERP, IP, and Project Management