IbO lite :: light innovation tool

Features included in IbO lite

IbO lite is a good alternative for companies wishing to make a first contact with innovation management. The features included enable you to manage ideas from their generation up to putting them into operation.

See below in more detail what 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 go with it. With IbO you will be able to communicate concrete goals with which the persons can identify. This way, more focused ideas, more focused results and a greater commitment to innovation will be obtained.

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

 It includes objectives allocation monitors and tracking of results. In two clicks and always 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 obtain ideas:

1. Taskforces: Innovation teams formed for one specific purpose, reaching a target through focused innovations. With IbO you will be able to manage them, from its setting up until putting the innovations into operation.
2. Challenges: That you launch to the organization and encourage all the members to contribute. A Challenge is a target that the company wants to achieve with people support and asks them to contribute their ideas.
3. You can also use the Suggestions Box to capture and manage the ideas spontaneously arising. Easy and very effective.

It includes detailed tracking monitors of each Taskforce and Challenge, as well as of the Suggestions Box. These are constantly updated so you always know their performance and the quantified results that they deliver.

This feature allows you to have up to 4 taskforces and 4 challenges active simultaneously, although the total number is unlimited including those inactive or already finished (eg: you can have 20 taskforces and challenges but only 4 simultaneously active). This is more than enough to maintain a sustained innovation in most SMEs and departments of large companies. However, if deemed appropriate you can increase the number of simultaneous active taskforces and challenges in the section Extensions.

MAKE INNOVATION EASIER FOR PEOPLE AND TURN THEM INTO INNOVATORS

Contextual video-tutorials
advice 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.

Currently just in Spanish. Coming soon in English! Request now and enjoy the video tutorials as they become available.

Features common to all IbO packages

Innovation focused on results

Obviously generating ideas is 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:

• ♦  is capable of producing real results (in sufficient quantity and in the desired direction)
• ♦  is suitable economically
• ♦  is feasible technically
• ♦  has an opportunity to exploit or a need to solve
• ♦  has been properly managed to minimize risk
• ♦  and so on…

In this way the company can choose which ideas deserve to continue. The stage-gate process consists of several steps of maturity and development of each idea, from its inception until it is ready to put into 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 are done 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 at their own facilities.

On the Cloud

IbO is a service 'on the cloud' (safe private cloud), thus you incur no hardware costs or maintenance. It also avoids software installations, even updates, as 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 suitable returns are obtained. Therefore, investment in innovation management turns into a variable cost.

Scalable

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

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

You can add new extensions to your IbO system. Simply request them from the Extensions section. This does not require any installation on your part. We take care of activating the extension in your IbO license and deliver it ready to use.

Multilingual

IbO may be used in English and Spanish, depending on the preferences of each user.
Would you like 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.