Idea Management 

Purpose

This process streamlines and structures idea creation.

You can:

·        Submit ideas

This can be done by regular employees.

·        Refine and enhance ideas

This can be done by a competent subject matter experts.

·        Approve or reject ideas

This can be done by any responsible person.

Approved ideas are unique and judged to have sufficient potential to serve as the basis for possible product definition concepts.

The key benefits of this process are as follows:

·        Good ideas are not lost, but found and made available to the appropriate people

·        Bad ideas are killed quickly

·        Idea generation workflows are structured and made more visible

Prerequisites

Users must have the required access rights.

Process Flow

This process starts when an employee gets an idea and decides that it could serve as the basis for product definition. The employee opens the idea submission user interface and enters the required information.

The process includes the following functions:

·        Submit Idea

·        Search Ideas

·        Specify Classification

·        Attach Document

·        Relate Ideas and Concepts

·        Discuss Idea

·        Dispatch Idea

·        Change Status

Result

The result of this process is an idea object that is:

·        Classified and enhanced

·        Related to other objects

Idea management is followed by Concept Development.