Nitor Infotech helped one of its customers in implementing enterprise class Innovation management process using Microsoft SharePoint and Nintex platforms.With Nitor’s well-defined idea and innovation management solution, the customer is able to:

	Systematically collect and analyze ideas generated by its employees
	Track contribution by individuals and reward individuals for innovation
	Take into consideration all ideas and bring in transparency- thereby increase employee morale
	Improve innovation that impacts profitability, reduces costs and enhances productivity

Most organizations do not have a systematic and organized mechanism for encouraging employees to bring in new ideas and innovations at the workplace that could improve organizational productivity. In fact, many organizations struggle to bring in transparency in the process of idea generation, implementation and dissemination of rewards to individuals.

In many organizations, new ideas are routed through core committees or empowered PMO members. These members validate, evaluate and provide feedback on each idea submitted. It is often problematic to reach out to many people, seek their feedback and then implement the idea. The entire process many a times is paper based or some times in the form of electronic document that is sent to multiple people through email.

Multiple follow-ups and reminders lead to delays and in this, important and creative ideas are wasted without evaluation.

Nitor has implemented a well-structured idea and innovation management solution that is collaborative, transparent and can be rolled out at an organizational level. The idea management workflow solution collects ideas from every individual in the organization, routes the same to identified people for evaluation and shows the implementation status.

The automated electronic process saves time in idea collection and routing. Additionally, all the ideas are evaluated through a workflow with automated alerts, reminders. .

	Organized Workflow: Any employee can submit an idea through an online application. The ideas are pre-classified in various categories such as cost savings, finance, customer service improvement etc. Based on the classification, these are then routed to appropriate people in the organization for evaluation.
	Alerts and Tasks: The workflow sends automatic reminders and alerts to members for evaluating the ideas in time. This saves time for everyone involved in the system, improves process speed and brings in transparency.
	Paperless and Quick Processing: Idea collection and sorting for evaluation is completely in digital format. It also offers flexibility to individuals to attach supporting documents and evidences at the time of submitting idea. Thus, the process gets all the required information about an idea in one place.

The solution is based on SharePoint Server 2010 platform and powered by Nintex-2010 Workflow engine. The solution also follows all the user policies defined in Active Directory.