SAP Innovation Management
Digitalization influences and changes the business environment at an accelerating pace. So innovation is the key to stay competitive, and it has to come from anyone, anywhere, always. SAP Innovation Management is a solution to collect and validate ideas. It helps to manage idea campaigns from the first idea to the validated and value-generating concept.
Benefits of SAP Innovation Management
Accelerate the ideation phase – turn ideas into concepts faster.
Bridge innovation silos across functions, business units, and geographies.
Encourage employees to participate in the ideation process.
Run an Innovation Office to help evaluate and manage ideas throughout the pipeline.
Foster interdisciplinary team building for better idea development.
View, share, and discuss ideas with peers anytime, anywhere – with our mobile app.
It collects and validates ideas anytime and anywhere
and turns the best ones into new products.
Functionality overview of SAP Innovation Management.
Definition of the Campaign
Define the phases, create the landing page, invite users to participate.
Choose the evaluators and the coaches of the idea.
Presentation of Ideas
Present an idea with a clear title and assign it to a Campaign.
Describe the idea in detail.
Define the team and the contributors.
Insert links and support files to the idea.
Collaboration
Get in contact with all the Stakeholders related to an Idea.
Get Comments and likes from peers.
Integrate information outside of SAP IM by integrating widgets into a website or any corporate social media platform.
Promote employee involvement by rewarding the best employees.
Evaluation methods of avant-garde ideas
Set up flexible assessment methods based on the campaign with a "stage and gate" process.
Use predefined evaluation criteria to identify the best idea.
Find a relevant expert to evaluate ideas.
Aggregate valuations.
Turn the idea into a project…
…and then into the product to be launched for the market!
Link ideas in SAP Innovation Management and portfolio elements in SAP PPM, allow navigation and retrieval of detailed information, to increase process efficiency.
Get a complete view of the product pipeline through the portfolio features in SAP PPM.
Compare Projects and Project Ideas to invest resources in the right area.
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