Your employees have a host of creative ideas in their heads – so it’s high time you tapped this valuable potential! Our innovation management software allows all employees to propose innovative ideas and drive them forward through virtual crowdfunding. This way, you promote innovation processes and leverage fresh ideas to generate real added value for your company, your employees and your customers.
Generating ideas – motivating employees
Mydea: Innovation management software to foster creativity in your company
Collaborative innovation management
Whether it’s new product features, simplified processes or ways to make day-to-day work easier, our idea management tool Mydea ensures that your team plays an active role in shaping the future of your company. Your employees can generate ideas, pitch them to your Innovation Management team and contribute to their development. Gamification, virtual crowdfunding and incentives integrate your entire workforce into this process.
This allows you to promote a lasting culture of innovation and support the digitalization of innovation management in your company. At the same time, you provide added motivation for your employees and encourage them to enjoy their work.
The benefits of our Mydea innovation management software at a glance
Mydea is an innovation management tool that can make a real impact in your company. It relies on a collaborative approach, encouraging all employees to put forward ideas and “sponsor” others’ ideas to help them reach the next stage. This enables you to transform your company’s innovation process with lasting effect, establishing innovation as an integral component of your company’s culture.
Our aim with Mydea is to ensure that valuable ideas from all employees are heard and considered. The platform ensures high transparency throughout the entire innovation process. Employees are able to see the status of their idea at all times along with the steps they need to take to drive it forward – which provides added motivation.
Innovation should be fun. As a platform for collaborative idea management, Mydea empowers your employees to drive their ideas forward. Sponsorship with a virtual currency enables ideas to qualify for the next step in the process. As employees get more involved, their motivation level grows along with their opportunities to support ideas.
Mydea is swift and straightforward to implement – without the need for time-consuming or cost-intensive adjustments. As a cloud-based app, Mydea is quickly ready for use and is easily scalable, from small-scale operations to major enterprises. This idea management software relies on simplicity and a clearly structured process to quickly generate employee enthusiasm. The web application in hosted in Microsoft Azure and can be supplemented with different Microsoft 365 products upon request.
Mydea is intuitive to use, while the innovation process is simple and streamlined. This makes it easy to introduce, as all employees can get to grips with the software quickly, so participating in innovation processes becomes an integral part of their day-to-day work.
Six-stage innovation process from challenge to review
In a six-stage process, the innovation management platform offers employees an optimal framework to contribute, share and refine innovative ideas.
If you’re looking for innovations in a specific area, you can set a business challenge in Mydea focusing on a specific topics. The crowd, i.e. your entire workforce, will then have the opportunity to submit ideas in line with pre-defined criteria. And, to avoid inhibiting or reining in innovation, employees can also submit ideas and innovations outside of challenges – similar to a company suggestion system.
This is what the six-stage innovation process looks like in detail:
1. Sponsoring
Submitted ideas initially enter the sponsoring face, when they need to generate support. They need to secure a certain level of financing to reach the next stage. This funding is generated through crowdfunding, with all employees assigned a certain amount of investment capital. Gamification and the ability to like, comment and share ideas make the innovation management process transparent and encouraging employees to get involved.
2. Screening
After overcoming the first challenge, the screening phase allows your company’s Innovation Management team to analyze all of the ideas that have achieved the defined sponsoring level. The team then decides whether each idea should proceed to the next stage: shaping.
3. Shaping
In the shaping stage, your Innovation Management team provides assistance to refine the idea and produce a project concept, perhaps in a one-day concept workshop. Once the idea is finished, it is re-assessed by the Innovation Management team.
4. Pitch
In this stage, the workshop outcomes are presented to the Innovation Board. This is made up of the Innovation Management team and members of your company’s management. The Innovation Board analyzes aspects such as the idea’s growth potential and provides advice on further development, resource requirements, and the implementation and financing plan.
5. Implementation
The person who submitted the idea assembles a team and implements the project in line with the plan and budget approved by the Innovation Board.
6. Review
The results of the implementation phase are presented to the Innovation Board. The Board then decides how to proceed – determining whether a product is now market-ready, extending the project or discontinuing its development.
The aviation industry is constantly evolving and subject to significant pressure to innovate. As a subsidiary of Lufthansa, we’re experts in innovation. We’re the ideal partner to support your company and secure its future viability by establishing an effective innovation process.
Of course, when it comes to introducing our innovation management software Mydea, we’ll be on hand to provide assistance. We can also support companies through the entire innovation process upon request and offer comprehensive consultancy services. Our goal is to position your company as effectively as possible and turn your employees into innovation experts.
We offer workshops on topics such as product development, culture, teams, strategy and social aspects to support our innovation management consultancy. We provide space for creative thinking, enabling you to develop ideas and drive forward innovations. Our workshops rely on formats including Design Thinking, Strategic Inventive Thinking (SIT), Rapid Prototyping and Design Sprints.
Our Mydea software solution can be implemented immediately. At the same time, we’re always available to work with you and implement additional functions or specific requests.
-
Innovation management: the ten most important success factors for your innovation process
pdf, 67 KB
A structured innovation process enables companies to optimally develop and exploit the creative potential of their employees. This checklist provides valuable insights and tips for what is needed to unleash the full creative power of your company.
Find out more about our innovation management software Mydea and effective innovation processes
Are you interested in Mydea? Would you like to establish a culture of innovation in your company? We would be happy to provide a personal consultation. Get in touch: