- Online submission of ideas from employees - anytime, anywhere
- Easily attach documents, pictures and spreadsheets to ideas for greater impact
- Ideas can be kept in draft form until ready for submission
- Track ideas with automated email notification and follow-up timeframes
- Simple, timesaving evaluation form for supervisors
- Award management system tracks each user's ideas and accumulated points
- You decide point values and awards
- Ideas can be audited to verify their actual savings over time
- Program costs can be tracked and compared to estimated and audited savings
- IdeasCount provides you with continuous updates on your programs ROI
- User defined business areas and departments enable flexible reporting that matches your organization's structure
- Track ideas/savings by user defined categories such as safety, quality, sales, customer service etc.
- News and FAQ pages allow you to update the details of your idea program
- Advanced SSL encription secures your ideas and data
- Plus much more !
- Unique - IdeasCount is modeled after the highly successful idea systems used by Toyota, Dana, GM and others. Our approach is all about engaging employees and their supervisors in working together to quickly implement improvements in the work they know best - their own. IC enables organizations to capture the creativity of every employee without big cash prizes, review committees or the other traditional elements that caused the old style suggestion programs to fail.
- Affordable - The cost of IC is based upon the number of users. You can use IC as long as you like without any contracts or long-term commitment.
- Technology - Our software is designed for access via the standard web browsers, allowing for almost instant deployment. The system is hosted on our secure server and is available worldwide 24 / 7.
- Flexible - Companies can configure IC in order to match their business needs. Configurable options in the setup include point values, follow-up reminders, business areas, company specific news and FAQ's, and other options and settings.
- Email messaging - IdeasCount generates email messages that notify employees and supervisors of key events as the system is used.
- Reports - IdeasCount helps to assess the success of engaging your workforce with reports that show participation by business area, department and supervisor. Implemented ideas, cost savings, program costs and ROI are all available using the standard system reports.