Successful Innovation is Change that Creates Value
Innovation is the collaboration between an idea and the marketplace. Successful innovation is change that creates value in that marketplace. But creating and maintaining an innovation program in today's enterprise is no simple matter. Too often, the very nature of well-run organizations can work to inhibit transformative ideas from being heard and developed. Innovation programs powered by SPARK change all that by providing easy-to-use solutions for enterprise innovation management across the full lifecycle of ideation through to incubation.
Innovation really happens when behaviors start to change. It is a process; it is not about an invention. It is an ecosystem where good ideas are captured, inventoried and reused to help them come to fruition. SPARK provides solutions for enterprise innovation programs that are just starting out with engagement through ideation, more advanced team-based concept testing and innovation tournaments, all the way through to full innovation life-cycle management.
Ideation
The keystone of the SPARK ecosystem, SPARK Ideate brings intelligent idea capture and assessment to the enterprise. Engage and unleash the creativity of your whole organization. SPARK Ideate features integrated idea peer-review, voting, discussions and user rewards.
Use the wisdom of the crowd to identify which ideas have the potential for the greatest impact and choose which ones to explore and develop further as concept tests.
Innovation
Let the experience and expertise of your people forecast the impact and value of idea submissions through parimutuel prediction market dynamics in SPARK Predict. Help solve existing business issues with SPARK Challenge to create sponsored innovation challenges focused on a specific topic.
Move beyond ideation and enter the world of multi-round innovation tournaments. Innovation tournaments enable tightly focused cross-functional project teams to develop and test product and business model concepts in a highly resource constrained competitive setting. SPARK Tournament supports concept test submission, evaluation, and runway management and is fully integrated with SPARK Ideate for idea promotion and evaluation.
Incubation
Complete the picture with enterprise innovation life-cycle management with SPARK Business Model and SPARK Portfolio Manager for larger product incubation teams above and beyond concept testing. Supporting lean-startup methodologies, including rapid iterative business model generation, and innovation project portfolio analysis, SPARK provides end-to-end reporting and analytics for your enterprise innovation management programs.
Implement ad-hoc innovation days with SPARK Hackathon to manage event logistics and team rewards. As with all SPARK products, SPARK Hackathon is integrated with the other elements of the suite to provide a seamless user experience across all products.
- SPARK Ideate
- SPARK Predict
- SPARK Challenge
- SPARK Tournament
- SPARK Hackathon
- SPARK Business Model
- SPARK Portfolio Manager