Best Innovation Software

Miro

Keep your team's minds in sync with Miro (formerly RealtimeBoard and AWW app). A virtual whiteboard and remote collaboration tool, Miro helps cross-functional teams work more efficiently together to build great things. The platform allows teams to ideate, visualize, and share ideas without any boundaries. It comes with over 200 pre-made templates for capturing and visualizing ideas, collaboration tools such as comments, chat, screen sharing, and video chat, and integrations with popular business tools. Miro AI. You and your team, supercharged. You're here to create the next big thing and we're here to help. Unlock the power of your ideas with Miro AI – your new launchpad for creativity, collaboration, and productivity.

18,954 Ratings

Starting Price: $8 per month

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innosabi

The innosabi Software Suite offers all the necessary tools to cover innovation end-to-end: It lets you spot relevant market developments or exciting new startups in your field. It allows you to engage your employees in innovation challenges and run co-creation projects with customers to get their feedback. It connects your network of trusted partners and suppliers to work collaboratively on new solutions. And it provides a place for all your technological knowledge and expertise to be shared and found whenever needed. innosabi Insight Access the latest patents, competitor intel, and publications in your field to know what is happening in the industry at a glance. innosabi Idea Use challenges and internal collaboration to leverage your employees’ ideas, knowledge, and expertise for innovation. innosabi Community Establish an online community for your customers and target group to get their feedback and suggestions for new products.

Starting Price: 10k$/year

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HYPE Boards

HYPE Innovation

HYPE Boards is an agile innovation tool designed to decentralize and accelerate innovation across your organization. Built for agility and intuitive use, HYPE Boards empowers teams to innovate at the speed of change. Our platform streamlines idea collection, automates workflows, and supports the validation of hypotheses, all within one user-friendly interface. Whether you're hosting brainstorming sessions, running workshops, working on incremental improvements or want to iterate on your next big idea by testing assumptions, HYPE Boards equips your team to drive innovation faster and more effectively. HYPE Boards shines in its ability to support bottom-up innovation, making it perfect for organizations eager to speed up their innovation processes. HYPE Boards breaks down silos and creates a dynamic, transparent environment where every team member can contribute to meaningful innovation, no matter their role or location, shaping a true culture of innovation.

5 Ratings

Starting Price: Free

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Aha!

Aha! Labs

Aha! is the world's #1 product development software. We help more than 1 million product builders go from discovery to delivery and bring their strategy to life. Our suite of tools includes Aha! Roadmaps, Aha! Discovery, Aha! Ideas, Aha! Whiteboards, Aha! Knowledge, Aha! Teamwork, and Aha! Develop. Aha! Roadmaps Set plans based on strategy, resources, and what customers value most. Aha! Discovery Jump-start customer interviews and discover key product insights. Aha! Ideas Engage with customers more deeply to better understand what they will pay for. Aha! Whiteboards Product teams deserve a whiteboarding tool that is tailored to their needs. Aha! Knowledge Centralize product information so that internal teams and customers can easily access the resources they need. Aha! Teamwork Manage projects your way while staying aligned with key objectives. Aha! Develop Connect to the roadmap, optimize your workload, and streamline development workflows.

3 Ratings

Starting Price: $59 per user per month

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Qmarkets

Managing innovation at a large company is never easy. You have an endless list of stakeholders to engage, countless data points to consider, and plenty of landmines to avoid. But it doesn’t have to be so difficult. With the right tools, you can bring all of these elements together to find clear insights that help you make the decisions that matter. That’s where we come in. With the AI-enhanced Qmarkets platform you can easily define and manage intelligent crowdsourcing processes to identify, review, and implement the most relevant ideas, trends, or insights, and deliver immediate ROI for your organization. With renowned clients like Ford, Intel, Coca-Cola, and UBS, we have a wealth of best-practices to help you achieve your goals. Whichever path you choose, we are obsessed with your success, and will be with you at every step of your innovation journey.

2 Ratings

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Ideanote

#1 Idea- and Innovation Management Platform. Collect, develop, and implement the greatest ideas from workers and customers. Ideanote leads to more successful innovation, business success, engaged workers, and happy customers. Instantly create idea collections, manage ideas better, and track innovation impact. Businesses of all sizes - from Roche to Pleo - trust Ideanote to accelerate their innovation. COLLECT IDEAS. Launch goal-driven idea collections where you solve challenges together. ENGAGE PEOPLE. With Ideanote, you can be where your people are and make innovation simple and engaging or everyone. MANAGE IDEAS. Prioritize incoming ideas and take the best to action faster with a fully stacked end-to-end idea management suite. top innovators, track your impact, and easily communicate your innovation success with a platform that tracks your performance from day one. AUTOMATE INNOVATION. Seamlessly automate your innovation with 100+ integrations and custom workflows.

1 Rating

Starting Price: Free Plan Available

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Accept Mission

Accept Mission is the fastest growing innovation software in the market. This attractive and innovative software helps organisations to become successful with innovation with powerful tools. Key elements include gamification to stimulate user engagement and creativity, tools integrated in one platform, and dashboards to measure and optimise innovation success. Accept Mission is already being used widely by global customers like Microsoft, Ebay, Heineken, Rabobank, and many more. Best for medium to large enterprises operating in various industries, looking to drive/boost innovation with smart use of idea management and innovation management software. 

1 Rating

Starting Price: €0

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Brightidea

With over 2 million users worldwide and $15+ Billion in net benefits recorded to date, Brightidea is the #1 Idea Management Platform on the market. Engage your employees at scale, collaborate on novel solutions, and foster a culture of innovation within your company. Wherever you're at in your innovation journey, our platform & people will help you get to the next level.

1 Rating

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Rever

Activate your Frontline Teams with the Power to Take Action. Rever's SaaS platform lets you align, empower, and recognize your frontline teams to drive continuous improvement and operational performance. It’s about much more than cost savings. Activating Rever taps into the creativity and intelligence of the frontline’s human capital. - Safety: Make it everyone’s responsibility. - Quality: Identify and address issues at the source. - Delivery: Keep a constant eye on avoiding slowdowns. - People: Drive employee engagement across teams. Elevate operational performance across your organization. Start today, your frontline is waiting. Assign the right people to collaborate. Share learnings across the company. Gamification to recognize and reward. Campaigns to align everyone.

Starting Price: $5000 per month

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DirectSuggest

DirectSuggest's award-winning employee suggestion box app streamlines the employee feedback process so employees can be easily heard and their company can effectively leverage their collective knowledge. We make it simple for employees to make suggestions on any device surrounding company created categories with the assurance they automatically arrive to the proper decision-maker. Every employee can also collaborate on suggestions via voting and commenting to enhance the quality of ideas. DirectSuggest only costs $0.50 per employee per month, and we have incredibly high ROI/Savings potential with an average 33X return on investment. The implementation process is also quite easy, and normally upon being committed and properly prepared to do so, setting up DirectSuggest from start to finish can be completed in as quickly as a week or less.

Starting Price: $0.50 per employee per month

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Sideways 6

Drive business success through employee ideas with Sideways 6, the revolutionary idea management software native to Microsoft Teams, Viva Engage, Interact and Workplace by Meta. Running ideas programs at scale can be difficult to execute with impact. Our solution makes it easy for companies to gather and organize employee ideas ensuring that no great idea goes unnoticed. Our platform allows companies to quickly and easily assess the potential of each idea and make informed decisions for maximum impact whilst engaging employees. By using Sideways 6, businesses experience a significant increase in resource efficiency (£12m saved and 101k hours saved by Balfour Beatty in 2022 alone), productivity (Nestle ideated 155 new products to take to market), and engagement (16% increase in employee engagement at DXC). Find out why the likes of Rio Tinto, British Airways, Vodafone and Marks and Spencer trust the Sideways 6 approach.

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NanoNotion

IntraLearn Software

First of its kind, born on Azure SaaS application. Azure AD, Azure SQL, Microsoft Graph, API’s, App Services. Maximizes Azure’s infrastructure and scalability. Azure Tenant Management allows for configurable preferences. Azure portal admins can manage organization-wide permissions. Azure AD and Office 365 users and groups, role access. Azure cloud reduces barriers to adoption. Enhance the value of your Microsoft Office and Office 365 application and services investment with the addition of NanoNotion. Create Notions from a variety of Office 365 document types, including Word, PowerPoint, and Excel. Easily insert links that support a Notion from materials located on OneDrive for Business and SharePoint. Use Microsoft Teams to socialize Notions, which helps to surface valuable knowledge. Once knowledge has value, use Teams to help transform knowledge into products and services.

Starting Price: $250 per month

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Praxie

Praxie (formerly upBOARD) offers out-of-the box solutions, templates & apps for everything. Get going instantly with a collaborative software solutions configured to your exact needs. Plans, Process, and Progress Dashboards all in one place. Mix & match best practices from industry experts. Instantly transform your work process. Build your business strategy using best practice processes for driving strategic differentiation and and competitive advantage. Execute strategy by cascading objectives and managing & measuring performance. Lead your innovation process to create opportunity portfolios and pipelines that drive business growth. Drive team collaboration with dashboards and tools for operations excellence.

Starting Price: $99/month/user

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ITONICS

ITONICS is the leading operating system to drive innovation from strategy to execution and generate predictable results at scale. Unlike traditional innovation management software, the ITONICS Innovation OS connects foresight and ideation activities to your strategic goals and portfolio execution in an all-in-one solution. Trusted by more than 500 companies worldwide, ITONICS is the only innovation management software in the world to be recognized by Gartner in 4 different innovation categories in their 2024 Hype Cycle for Innovation Practices. With more than 150 employees worldwide, we support innovation leaders such as adidas, Johnson & Johnson, Toyota, Mondelez, Siemens and KPMG.

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Innolytics

Innolytics GmbH

Innolytics is a software suite that allows companies to collect and evaluate ideas from employees and implement them with the help of a structured process. The software can be created online immediately. It is permanently free of charge for up to 15 users. An unlimited number of users can be added in the paid versions. Modules such as knowledge management, technology management, and digital transformation are also available.

Starting Price: Free

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Co:tunity

Kairos Future

Co:tunity by Kairos Future is a cloud-based idea management and foresight platform that helps improve enterprise innovation capabilities. Designed for all types of organizations Co:tunity offers collaboration, idea submission, review, and analytics functionalities within a powerful suite. This collaborative trendspotting and innovation platform also includes a variety of flexible and customizable features that enable users to gather, share, develop, and/or evaluate ideas and trends together with colleagues and customers. Important features of Co:tunity include competitive intelligence, role-based permissions, real-time notifications, best practices repository, trend analysis, campaign analysis, communication management, and more.

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Innovation Cloud

Innovation Cloud SARL

Innovation Cloud will assist you in connecting all dimensions of innovation, from front-end ideation, through new product development and innovation portfolio to the launch and post-launch review, with a single, integrated cross-functional software. Innovation Cloud has a proven track record in successfully developing and implementing software for end-to-end innovation management. During 12 years of experience and working with clients from various industries, we gained a better understanding of the potential challenges that companies are facing. That’s why we always tend to focus on the unique requirements of every client since every company is unique in regards of its workforce, processes, products and services, objectives and priorities.

Starting Price: $30.00/month

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OpenideaL

Linnovate

Harness ideas to improve your products, services and digital experiences. Collect and managing ideas from customers and employees. OpenideaL is an open-source platform allowing companies and organizations to collaborate with employees and customers. It is the tool for decision makers who use insights and feedback when making strategic decisions. Enable each user to have a unique experience, unlocking features like idea, challenges, and commenting. Invite your teams and employees to participate in company decisions and share their thoughts about how to improve company workflow, services and products. OpenideaL is adapted for companies & organizations interested in sharing strategic decisions, planning of future products, and services with their customers. It is a perfect tool for decision makers, analysts who need to make strategic decisions, and stakeholders who wish to expand their view of the problem.

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Planbox

Planbox is the pioneering agile innovation management platform software provider for full lifecycle Innovation Portfolio Management, Emerging Tech Empowerment and Ecosystem Enablement. Planbox is recognized by Forrester as the top-ranking innovation management platform in the marketplace, having received the highest score in strategy and current offering in the Forrester Wave: Innovation Management Platforms, Q1, 2020. As the most robust and scalable platform on the market, we empower our clients to discover, collaborate and capitalize on the best strategically aligned concepts with their ecosystem of employees, customers, suppliers, partners, startups, academia, government and the general public to pursue breakthrough innovations, create a sustainable continuous improvement program, build a framework for corporate venturing and action on consumer insights.

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FlowWright

IPS

Business Process Management Software (BPMS) & BPM Workflow Automation Tool. Companies need workflow, forms, compliance, and automation routing support. Our low-code options make creating + editing workflows simple. Our best-in-class forms capabilities, make it possible to rapidly build forms, forms logic, and workflows for forms-driven workflow processes. Companies have many existing systems in place that need to work with each other. Our business process integrations across systems are loosely-coupled + intelligently integrated. When you use FlowWright to automate your business, you gain access to standard metrics and metrics that you define. BPM analytics are a key part of any BPM workflow management software solution. FlowWright can be deployed as a cloud solution or deployed in an on-premise or .NET hosted environment (including AWS and Azure). It was built in .NET Foundation C# code and all tools are fully browser-based, requiring no plug-ins.

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smartcrowds

Most employee engagement programmes aren’t, well, very engaging. Bit of an issue given that’s supposed to be the point of them. The problem is, employee engagement is usually something that is done TO employees, they aren’t the drivers or facilitators of the engagement. The result? Employees don’t believe, or engage, in the initiatives that management work so hard to implement. We’re not gamblers here at smartcrowds towers but, if we were, we’d bet you’ve run employee engagement programmes that haven’t gotten the results you wanted. And we think it’s odds on the reason for that is because they’ve been driven by management, not employees. Thankfully, smartcrowds is designed to solve this exact problem. It’s an always on platform that captures your employees’ most pressing concerns, issues and opportunities and addresses them with crowdsourced solutions. In other words, it puts the power, control and initiative in the hands of your employees.

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Planview IdeaPlace

Planview

Planview IdeaPlace is a leading idea management platform that enables users to crowdsource ideas for new products and markets in order to solve critical business challenges and streamline operational processes. Available globally with multi-language support, Planview IdeaPlace offers business crowdsourcing and innovation management within a suite and employs gamification strategies such as virtual currency, rewards, and game mechanics to drive user engagement. Key features include data visualization, crowd science algorithms, machine learning, automated idea graduation or processing, idea trading, and more. Join the 6M+ employees at 500+ enterprise companies that are using Planview IdeaPlace to bring the power of collective intelligence to every business challenge. Engage people around the world in moving your business forward. Planview IdeaPlace makes it easy to surface and develop ideas from employees as well as those outside your company.

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Idea Drop

Capture and action the best ideas from people with Idea Drop, a cloud-based idea management platform. Idea Drop is ideal for mid-sized businesses. Idea Drop features include campaign management, idea submission portal, collaboration tools, analytics, and idea curation. With Idea Drop's idea submission, users can capture ideas from different teams with the assistance of customizable forms. Idea Drop also enables users to launch idea campaigns depending on the business challenges.

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Patsnap

Patsnap is the leading innovation intelligence platform designed to help you identify technological opportunities that could affect the future growth and survival of your business. With the application of AI technology, Patsnap makes it possible to gain actionable intelligence from millions of global innovation data points on patents, venture capital, partnerships, journals, startups, mergers & acquisitions, technology news and more. From ideation to commercialization, Patsnap separates the signal from the noise at every step of your innovation funnel so you can make better business decisions. Our AI-powered technology connects billions of datasets and allows innovation professionals to uncover emerging trends, spot risks, and identify market opportunities. Connect disparate datapoints and drive drug discovery and development with Patsnap. Easily uncover associations between diseases, target companies, and drugs while improving R&D and accelerating time to market.

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LaunchPath

LaunchPath Innovation

LaunchPath is an innovation platform that increases organizations' innovation capacity by digitally coaching, guiding, training, and supporting innovators through the entire process of turning ideas into reality. With LaunchPath you can 10X the number of innovation projects you can support without hiring more staff. If you’ve just begun to formalize an employee innovation program, LaunchPath can easily save years of wasted effort by guiding you through the hard-earned lessons of the thousands of innovators who have preceded you. LaunchPath digitally guides, trains, and supports your aspiring innovators and entrepreneurs throughout the entire process of turning ideas into reality. LaunchPath digitizes and automates innovator support and development to enable dramatic scaling of innovation programs. 10X the number of innovators you can support and develop.

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iEnabler

Innovation Enabler

Get a Headstart with iEnabler. We are an Innovation software Platform that helps businesses create new products, build new business models, and grow and expand to newer markets. iEnabler makes Innovation outcomes predictable, repeatable, and successful. Our structured approach has think models embedded in the software that covers all facets of the innovation journey from problem discovery to market discovery and solution ideation. Enterprise Innovation to help you create new products, grow new markets by navigating Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity, and Ambiguity. Business model builder to help you ideate and structurize your business value chain and discover breakthrough business possibilities. At iEnabler, we believe in empowering Individuals by training them in the art and science of Unlocking Innovations from within. Our trained Innovation sherpas will do the Innovation heavy lifting and guide teams to undertake diverse innovation interventions.

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Wellspring for Tech Scouting

Wellspring Worldwide

The only end-to-end technology scouting software. From external search to analytical tools, Wellspring for Tech Scouting provides key insights into the emerging technologies and startups you need to know. Scout is used by top tech scouting teams to discover everything from early-stage research to start-up investment opportunities, developing a competitive landscape tailored to their needs. Wellspring software uses machine learning to intelligently stitch together thousands of data sources covering patents, SEC filings, academic research, grants, and proprietary information to create profiles of innovative people, companies, and fields of research.

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KICKBOX

rready

The KICKBOX Intrapreneurship Program is an employee-driven innovation program based on a methodology used by over 1'000 successful companies, including Adobe and 3M. The program works bottom-up by tapping into the collective knowledge of your employees and supports them to transform raw ideas into actionable solutions. Get started with a combination of a scalable online platform, a proven methodology, and access to professional services and strategic support. This will make innovation within your company measurable and transparent while engaging with your employees and educating them using gamified elements.

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