Use Case | Ideation Portal

Background

Within your firm or in-house department, the proper collection, validation, and prioritization of ideas and solutions is vital. Digitizing the ideation process fosters an internal ideation culture, encouraging those experiencing issues or running into problems to be proactive in coming up with solutions. This establishes an environment in which business users are empowered and supported in the first step of the application development cycle: developing ideas.

With an ideation portal, your employees are encouraged to turn their issues and experiences into digital solutions. Users can ‘spark’ a new idea with a button, and create a post by pitching an idea. Users can then engage with one another’s posts by upvoting, downvoting, or commenting, thus creating a digitized and instant validation process. Further functionality allows users to subscribe to a discussion flow, enable email notifications, search posts according to keywords, or filter according to tags. Meanwhile, insight functionality demonstrates the trending tags, the top innovators, and the most popular ideas. Provide your management with back-end capabilities to view analytics on the ideation portal engagement, and see the trending topics, themes, and discussions. In some cases, the application can be shared with a customer base to provide customer feedback.

Using the Betty Blocks platform, legal firms and departments can fully customize an Ideation Portal which digitizes, streamlines, and encourages a crucial internal process. Provide your workforce with a tool that stimulates innovation and participation, streamlines the validation process, and optimizes the investment of time and resources through one digitized, customizable, fully integrated LCNC platform.

Innovative and empowering

Foster, facilitate, and support innovation throughout your firm by enabling employees to participate in the ideation process.
Drive an internal ideation culture throughout your organization, improving your rapid application development process.

Empower those experiencing issues or problems to come up with and pitch the solutions, consistently tackling the most pressing issues.
Improve employee satisfaction and commitment within your firm by providing your organization with the tools and means to fix its own issues.
Identify the top issues, themes, solutions, and innovators at your organization.

Digitized and efficient

Optimize the collection, validation, and ranking of ideas and solutions through a digital application.
Ensure that the most pressing and important initiatives and ideas are consistently and automatically pitched and validated.

Invest time and resources into developing applications that match the exact needs and problems of your organization.
Simplify the ideation process through a streamlined and standardized method for pitching ideas.
Validate ideas quickly and easily according to the engagement, reactions, and votes on the platform.

Bespoke and secure

Create a fully customized, user-friendly, secured self-serve solution specific to the needs of your organization.
Provide users with a user-friendly, encouraging, and fully bespoke application encouraging participation and engagement.

Track all ideas, pitches, and conversations in one secure, cloud-based application.
Enable back-end access to analytics on the ideation portal engagement for management.
Integrate the ideation tool with your existing technology, infrastructure, and applications to digitize the process end-to-end.

1. Plan

The first stage: understanding what needs to be built and what the initial steps to a successful application are.

The Betty Blocks Platform empowers new types of (citizen) developers. This gives everybody access to join the process. Join a workshop or our online academy and learn how to create your first workflow and wireframe in hours.

2. Build

The most exciting part: the moment when everyone can contribute.

Through Betty Block’s simple drag and drop functionality, you can create your interfaces. Without writing a single line of code you can configure workflows, visually define how you want to store your data and customize your application.

3. Release

Once you’ve built something it is time to delight your audience.

By running tests in various sandboxes people are encouraged to play around without having a fear of breaking things. Everyone satisfied? Great! Release to production and instantly share your work with the world.