What is IdeaScale?
IdeaScale is an innovation management solution that links organizations to people with ideas. Those ideas can change the world 鈥� not just your business. Find ideas to aid in digital transformation, to face the age of automation, to fight climate change, inequality and beyond. Connect to the ideas that matter and start co-creating the future.
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88 Likeliness to Recommend
100 Plan to Renew
80 Satisfaction of Cost Relative to Value
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Emotional Footprint Overview
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+91 Net Emotional Footprint
The emotional sentiment held by end users of the software based on their experience with the vendor. Responses are captured on an eight-point scale.
How much do users love IdeaScale?
Pros
- Respectful
- Fair
- Enables Productivity
- Trustworthy
How to read the Emotional Footprint
The Net Emotional Footprint measures high-level user sentiment towards particular product offerings. It aggregates emotional response ratings for various dimensions of the vendor-client relationship and product effectiveness, creating a powerful indicator of overall user feeling toward the vendor and product.
While purchasing decisions shouldn't be based on emotion, it's valuable to know what kind of emotional response the vendor you're considering elicits from their users.
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Feature Ratings
Idea Capture
Idea Segmentation
Idea Funnel
Social Collaboration
Multiple Language Support
Advanced Search and Filtering
Application Integration
News Feed
Dashboards, Analytics and Reporting
Customizable Branding
Idea Scoring / Evaluation
Vendor Capability Ratings
Product Strategy and Rate of Improvement
Ease of Implementation
Business Value Created
Usability and Intuitiveness
Availability and Quality of Training
Quality of Features
Ease of Customization
Ease of IT Administration
Vendor Support
Breadth of Features
Ease of Data Integration
IdeaScale Reviews
Karen M.
- Role: Sales Marketing
- Industry: Not for Profit
- Involvement: End User of Application
Submitted Dec 2022
Great product - please add video capabilities
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates IdeaScale from other similar products?
Ease of use
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Support team and new templates
What do you dislike most about this product?
Lack of video capture
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
If you don't need video capture, this is your product!
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
Clara D.
- Role: Student Academic
- Industry: Not for Profit
- Involvement: Business Leader or Manager
Submitted Dec 2022
Great tool to promote social collaboration
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates IdeaScale from other similar products?
User-friendly, easy registration, gather a lot of useful features in the same platform, possibility to give different type of access
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
Customization, especially for the campaign mode when it comes to the workflow and the evaluation.
What do you dislike most about this product?
The comment section is not the most intuitive. It can look very messy when there is a lot of comment. The order of the comments is also confusing.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
Depending on their needs, I would recommend them to choose this platform if they are looking for a
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing
- Enables Productivity
Michael M.
- Role: Human Resources
- Industry: Education
- Involvement: Business Leader or Manager
Submitted Dec 2022
Easy to implement with no impact on sophistication
Likeliness to Recommend
What differentiates IdeaScale from other similar products?
The IdeaScale team provides effective technical guidance and inspirational thought partnership. Their collaborative spirit leads to helpful conversations with other peers and users of the platform.
What is your favorite aspect of this product?
The flexibility with creating different types of idea-generating campaigns. It's terrific to have ongoing campaigns that have continuous engagement and also have special time-limited campaigns that focus on a specific area or topic for more focused engagement. The mobile friendly features are fantastic and allow for real time empowerment of end users to contribute.
What do you dislike most about this product?
No major complaints! Ran into some technical issues that were more caused on my side than theirs, and they were incredibly patient and helpful.
What recommendations would you give to someone considering this product?
You will be surprised and satisfied with how quickly, thoughtfully, and effectively you get the ball rolling with IdeaScale. Be sure to consider the communication and "buy-in" strategy - in particular, how you will evaluate submitted ideas and communicate progress and updates on the work. IdeaScale makes it easy to get started and helps you think about longer-term implementation and engagement strategies.
Pros
- Helps Innovate
- Continually Improving Product
- Reliable
- Performance Enhancing