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clu Innovation Management
Idea Management.
Disrupt the market with the ideas of your employees.
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clu Idea Management Platform
Innovation Networking for employees
Fill your innovation pipeline
Work together on ideas
Evaluate and validate ideas stepwise
Your company could need this for:
Idea development in distributed corporations, matching ideas and supporters globally in your
organization, address growing competition and start-ups with disruptive business models.
Plus: To crumble innovation barriers within your organization.
Employee and Partner-driven Innovation Management.
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Your benefits. | Break those damn innovation silos
| Have great teams find automatically
| Decide on expert’s evaluations
| Engage your employees & partners
Innovation Networking for employees
- Idea supporters will be found via skill match-
making and suggested to idea authors
- Focused networking and gamification help
on creating by cooperation and competition
Fill your innovation pipeline
- Build up a pool of ideas, on which you can
decide, what and when to implement
- Always stay in control of your innovation
management performance by reports
Work together on ideas
- Collaborate globally on ideas in real-time
with keeping all versions of an idea
- Proof of idea ownership by individual
unambiguous data and digital signage
Evaluate and validate ideas stepwise
- Instantly recognize relevant ideas, track
history and document market validation
- Gain better market insights through trend
and sentiment analysis
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Both platforms together cover a complete design thinking process to help you to
understand a) the needs of the market and b) to develop to right products.
Our platform portfolio = Idea Jam + Idea Management
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Learn what your customers want.
Create surveys, sketch ideas
Customer-driven
Innovation Management
Let your teams work on ideas.
Find the best, make them come true.
Employee- and partner-driven
Innovation Management
- Innovation Networking for employees
- Fill your innovation pipeline
- Work together on ideas
- Evaluate and validate ideas stepwise
- Understand your audience
- Brainstorm online
- Rapid ideation
- Moderated discussions and surveys
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Fill the innovation pipeline. | Combine different knowledge
| Push relevant ideas into the pipeline
| Let ideas mature through feedback
| Measure innovation performance
Employees Customers Partners
Prototyping go-to-marketEvaluation
Stage Gate Process + Monitoring via KPIs
Crowd
Collection
of ideas
Ideation Matchmaking
Feedback
Refinement Collaboration
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This is how it looks like.
Ideate
Start from from wherever you are.
Find the right collaborators via
matchmaking and let your ideas
mature together.
Prototype
An idea is only worth implementing,
if there is a market. Check your
ideas's market validation.
Evaluate
Through evaluation stages you‘re
able to track and conduct the whole
process from idea creation to
prototyping until go to market.
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We provide you the right features.
Community
- Vivid Ideation Communities
- Tagging Contents + people
- Messaging
- Task + Actions list
- Collaborate idea editing
- Skill matchmaking
- Instant commenting and replying
- Gamification and Leaderboards
- Real-time activity stream
Administration
- Ideation statistics + KPIs
- Broadcast news
- Conducting campaigns
- Focus on innovation search fields
- Stage Gate Process
- Download all ideas and reports
- Sentiment analysis and trend scouting
- Incentive Shops to reward users
- Permission model with roles and groups
| Like Facebook meets Tinder for ideas
| Build teams which would never met
| Employee loyalty can be lived
| Embrace and utilize diversity
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Phase 1 Phase 2 Phase n
Pilot with a small lead user
group. This involves
particularly open-minded
users in the company with
a closely focused task for
new ideas, close support
and success control.
Typical duration: 3 months.
Extended pilot phase with
about 3 or 5 times the initial
lead user group size. Further
opening through viral
communication within the
company and organic
inclusion of further,
complementary user groups.
Duration: Between 3 and 6
months.
Depending on the
objective, further
expansion of user
groups within the
company, across
departments and
locations.
Future
development
Let your innovation abilities grow. | We involve the people who care
| Combining on- and offline actions
| We provide the key: Acceptance
| Adapt easier to innovation needs
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Technology.
clu runs just as a secure and encrypted cloud service at T-Systems (T-Systems provides data centers
around the globe: e.g. Europe, Asia and the US). We deliver you scalability that grows with your
requirements, step-by-step. You can use clu from any actual smartphone, tablet or computers*.
clu supports webservices and integration with all industry standard applications, e.g. from Microsoft:
Sharepoint, Exchange, Active Directory. Further integration possibilites and interfaces are available
upon request.
System requirements
- OS: Windows 7/8/10, Linux, MacOS > 10.10, iOS > 7, Android > 4
- Browsers: Firefox ≥ 40, Safari ≥ 10, Chrome ≥ 50, Internet Explorer ≥ 11 and Edge
The clu name and logo are trademarks of think to innovate GmbH. All brand and product names
mentioned are trademarks of their respective owners and accordingly protected by law.
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References.
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think to innovate GmbH | ideas by clu
Michael Grundmann | Founder & CEO
+49 171 7407052
+49 6074 21516730
michael.grundmann@ideasbyclu.com
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@ideasbyclu
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think to innovate GmbH is a privately held company, located near Frankfurt am Main, Germany,
CEO: Michael Grundmann. The main objective is an ongoing development of our innovation
management cloud platforms for corporations and large scale innovation projects, in conjuncting with
adjusted innovation consulting best practices.
To provide an optimum outcome together with BearingPoint we developed an agile approach for the
implementation of innovation projects and since also jointly ongoing develop and improve our cloud-
based platforms at T-Systems, aiming to support corporate customer- and employee- / partner- centric
innovation management for corporate customers worldwide.
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@ideasbyclu
About us.
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