Employees submit their ideas for review during the ideation phase. This can be done in a simple Excel sheet or with an Ideation Portal built on the Betty Blocks platform. The point is that submitted ideas need to be thoroughly vetted by a team of stakeholders for the target group, needs, components, and business goals to determine the solution’s viability. Likewise, the solution’s scalability, complexity, and integration capabilities need to be taken into account. A tech stack compatibility assessment is also necessary to determine whether the solution is viable within the organization’s existing tech stack. Many of our customers use the Solutions Value Board as a scoring system to help them list the requirements needed to move forward to the validation phase. 

Once an innovative idea has passed the ideation phase, it is crucial to establish whether the solution is viable—this is done in the validation phase. Stakeholders will determine if the solution fits with the organization’s current tech stack and capabilities before moving forward with development. This method ensures that the end product can integrate with the company’s IT structure and not pose extra roadblocks when the deployment phase comes around. Based on the outcome of the scoring system and technological capability assessment, stakeholders are able to clearly validate the development of a new solution.