IbO free

Features included in IbO free

IbO free manages ideas from their generation up to put them in operation and lets you obtain your first results from innovation.

See below in more detail what can the included features offer:

SET INNOVATION GOALS AND MULTIPLY THE IDEAS IN YOUR COMPANY

Goals
innovation targets, to get more focused results and a greater commitment

Make sure from the beginning that the ideas will drive you where your company wants to go. The quality of the Innovation increases when we know where we want to come with it. With IbO you will be able to communicate concrete goals with which the persons can identify. This way will obtain more focused ideas, more focused results and a greater commitment to the innovation.

Can set your objectives both in economic terms and in the success indicators of your choice.

Goals includes monitors of the objectives allocation and tracking of results. In two clicks and ever up to date.

Taskforces & Challenges
get a large continuous flow of focused innovations

Multiply the ideas in your organization. With Taskforces & Challenges you will have three ways to obtaining ideas:

1. Taskforces: innovation teams formed to one only purpose, reaching a target by means of focused innovations. With IbO you will be able to manage them, since its setting up to the putting in operation of the innovations.
2. Challenges: launched to the organization and where all the members are invited to contribute. A Challenge is a target that the company wants to achieve with the people support, for which asks them to contribute their ideas.
3. You can also use the Suggestions Box to capture and manage the ideas spontaneously arisen. Easy and very effective.

Includes detailed tracking monitors of each Tarkforce and Challenge, as well as of the Suggestions Box. Are ever updated so you always know their performance and the quantified results that deliver.

This feature is limited in this free version and allows you to have up to 2 taskforces and 2 challenges active simultaneously, although the total number is unlimited including those inactive or already finished. Furthermore, in contrast to the paid versions you cannot increase the number of simultaneous active taskforces and challenges.

MAKE INNOVATION EASIER FOR PEOPLE AND OBTAIN INNOVATORS

Contextual video-tutorials
advices and best practices in two clicks just when you need it

 This feature includes an extensive collection of contextual video tutorials that you can access just when you need them, depending on what you are doing at IbO and your user profile. This way IbO helps to acquire best practices, optimize the innovation management and solve any question that could arise.

This feature is coming soon (not yet available). Request now and enjoy the video tutorials as they become available.

Features common to all IbO packages

Innovation focused on results

Obviously generating ideas it's not enough. It's necessary to manage them properly so that they turn into innovations capable of offering quantifiable profit. IbO includes a stage-gate process to check step-by-step whether each idea:

• ♦  it's capable of producing real results (in enough quantity and in the wished direction)
• ♦  it's suitable economically
• ♦  it's feasible technically
• ♦  exists an exploitable opportunity or need
• ♦  the risks have been properly managed
• ♦  and so on…

In this way the company can choose which ideas deserve to continue. The stage-gate process consist of several phases of maturation and development of each idea, since it's generated or captured until is ready for putting in operation.

Streamline the innovation budget

Another main function of this stage-gate process is to streamline the innovation budget, since the budget allocated to each idea is progressive and proportional to its potential. Only the most promising ideas obtain relevant budgets, and do it gradually.

Open Innovation

Much of successful innovations emerge from collaborations with external elements to the company. With IbO you may also include the Open Innovation in your system to boost the innovation outcomes.

Have a flexible and effective tool with which you can easily establish when you want close collaborations with partners, suppliers, customers, consumers, institutions, universities, consultants and any external agent you want to invite.

You can seek the cooperation of these elements at any level: punctual or continuous, in the whole system or just in certain innovation projects, just for contributing ideas or for taking part in its development by means of mixed innovation teams (internal and external).

Make the most of the features that IbO offers to manage these collaborations with persons and companies around the world with the same efficacy as if they were meeting in their own facilities.

On the Cloud

IbO is a service 'on the cloud' (safe private cloud), thus you incur no hardware costs or maintenance. Also avoid software installations, even the updates since it will be permanently updated automatically. We take charge. This way you can focus all your attention and resources on innovation.

Furthermore, it has some additional financial advantages: given that your company buys a subscription to the service, this will renew only if obtains suitable returns. Therefore, investment in innovation management turns into a variable cost.

Scalable

IbO adapts itself to the application environment that you decide, since a department up to the whole company, since a SME up to a big company. Many companies prefer to begin with a nearby environment and under control, extending then the system of innovation management to the rest of the company. With IbO can do it, and when you need to extend the system of innovation IbO will adapt itself automatically.

Furthermore, IbO manages innovations all over the line, since radical innovations up to incremental improvements. And along the company, since any business function up to the strategy.

For adding new extensions to your IbO system you need to turn your free license into a paid one. This doesn't require any installation or data migration on your part. We take care to activate the new IbO license and deliver it ready to use. Next, you can also add further extensions if you want.

Multilingual

IbO may be used in English and Spanish, depending on the preferences of each user.
Would you like some another specific language? Contact us.

Operational requirements

For the proper functioning of the system you need:

• ♦  Internet connection.
• ♦  Browsers (many others are suitable too):
        - Windows: Internet Explorer 8+, Firefox 3.6
        - Mac: Safari 5+, Firefox 3.6
        - Linux: Firefox 3.6, Chrome 8+
• ♦  The user experience is better with monitor resolution: 1024×768 or higher.

Restrictions in the free version

IbO free is a limited version and can't be expanded with extensions. For example, its number of users is limited to 100 and the amount of simultaneous active Taskforces and Challenges is limited to two respectively, and cannot be expanded.

Nevertheless, you can turn your free license into any of the pay licenses whenever you want. This way you are able to add the features that better fit your company and expand your innovation system to achieve more profitable and focused innovations.