Global Innovation Management Platforms 2021

Brightidea

At Brightidea, we’re passionate about innovation. We believe it’s the lifeblood of progress, advancing the human condition and improving the world around us. To that end, we’ve set out to accelerate the success of innovation by empowering those behind it with advanced software to facilitate and streamline the ideation process—and the collaboration it thrives on. Our mission?… To create a world where the best ideas win.
With offices in San Francisco and New York City, we’ve worked with over 300 leading global brands, including Accenture, Bayer, GE, GM, and MasterCard, to achieve billions in financial innovation impact.

https://www.brightidea.com/


HYPE Innovation

Founded as DaimlerChrysler spin-off in 2001, HYPE Innovation has grown to a leading software specialist in the fast-growing enterprise innovation software market. With its approx. 120 employees, HYPE Innovation’s offering supports customers harnessing the collective intelligence of employees, customers, and partners by supporting their innovation ecosystem from early trend scouting and road mapping all the way through to concept creation and innovation portfolio management. The company currently serves a well-diversified and global blue-chip customer base with 220+ customers across various industries.

https://www.hypeinnovation.com/


IdeaScale

IdeaScale is the largest cloud-based innovation software platform in the world with more than 25,000 customers and 4.5 million users. The software allows organizations to involve the opinions of public and private communities by collecting their ideas and giving users a platform to vote. The ideas are then evaluated, routed, and implemented, making IdeaScale the engine of crowd-powered innovation. IdeaScale’s client roster includes, the Cleveland Cavaliers, Doctors Without Borders, Freddie Mac, Marriott Vacations Worldwide, NASA, the United Way, the US Air Force, and many others.

https://www.ideascale.group/


Innosabi

innosabi develops software for agile innovation. This increases the speed and success in the innovation processes of large companies. With our solutions, the entire ecosystem can be integrated into the development of new products, services or business models. From customers and employees to suppliers and partners. Our software is used by industry leaders such as Daimler, Bayer, Postbank, Allianz, and Rehau.

Agile Innovation Software


Planbox

Founded in 1999, Planbox’s headquarters office is located in Montreal, Quebec and multiple offices located in the US and UK. Planbox is the pioneering provider of cloud-based AI-Powered Agile Work Innovation solutions. Collaborate, develop and capitalize on the best ideas from your employees, customers, partners and suppliers. Build a competitive advantage for your brand by developing creative ideas into winning projects that lead to market-beating growth and profits. Planbox is trusted by some of the world’s most respected organizations and best-recognized brands.

https://www.planbox.com/


Planview

Planview enables organizations to get the most out of their resources and achieve their goals. We are the global leader in work and resource management, with the industry’s most comprehensive portfolio of solutions for strategic planning, portfolio and resource management, product innovation, capability and technology management, and collaborative work management. Our solutions span every class of work, resource, and organization; addressing the needs of teams, departments, and entire organizations, from the mid-market to global enterprises. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, our 700 employees serve more than 3,000 enterprise customers worldwide through a culture of product leadership, deep market expertise and highly engaged customer communities

Planview


Qmarkets

Qmarkets has developed a reputation over the last 10 years for delivering one of the most comprehensive crowdsourcing software solutions in the world. Recognized by leading analysts such as Gartner, Forrester, MWD Advisors and Info-tech, Qmarkets offers unmatched technical and design flexibility to their extensive list of leading global clients; including Nestle, Ford, Lufthansa, Ab InBev, Philip Morris International, Bridgestone, and many more.
Qmarkets’ software offering extends beyond innovation management to include products focusing on process improvement, continuous improvement and operational excellence; open innovation with customers and business partners; technology scouting for enterprise M&A opportunities; and digital employee engagement.
The innovation management solutions offered by Qmarkets are completed by a commitment to customer success. This is shown by Qmarkets’ global team, and supported through best-practices, workshops, training, professional services, and more.

https://www.qmarkets.net/


Sopheon

Sopheon partners with customers to provide complete Enterprise Innovation Performance solutions including software, expertise, and best practices to achieve exceptional long-term revenue growth and profitability.
Sopheon’s Accolade® solution provides end-to-end coverage for the entire innovation management and new product development lifecycle. For the first time, businesses can access a single source of the truth across:
Strategic Innovation Planning ,Roadmapping, Idea and Concept Development, Process and Project Management,
Portfolio and In-Market Management
Sopheon’s solutions have been implemented by over 250 customers with over 60,000 users in over 50 countries.

Innovation Management


Wazoku

Wazoku’s idea management platform is your global home for all ideas, giving a voice and role to everyone in the innovation process. We are passionate about enabling organisations to engage and collaborate with their workforce, ecosystem, customers and the world – to generate new ideas as part of a wider innovation strategy.
Wazoku was founded in 2011, and is used by organisations such as Waitrose, HSBC and UK central government to help them embed innovation is a core, strategic, everyday capability and change the world one idea at a time. headquartered in London and have offices in Bristol, United Kingdom and Copenhagen, Denmark.

Wazoku – Where Innovation Works


Wellspring

Founded in 2003 as a spin-off of Carnegie Mellon University, Wellspring soon became the preeminent tech transfer solution provider for universities and research institutes. Wellspring later acquired Flintbox, the world’s largest online exchange of early-stage technologies.
As a natural extension of our involvement in open innovation, Wellspring developed purpose-built software for technology scouting, corporate venturing, sponsored research, and licensing. Today we are proud to count successful clients at leading companies, hospitals, government agencies, and universities.

https://www.wellspring.com/


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