Crowdicity is an idea management solution that integrates within existing organizational practice, leveraging familiar social tools for engaging people. Businesses can seamlessly gather the ideas, thoughts and feedback of anyone at any level, at any time with a view to improving services. Set certain questions to provoke a barrage of solutions or advice on key decisions, using Crowdicity’s unique challenge management feature. Sift, sort and evaluate responses in real time, while providing collaborative capabilities for a truly crowd sourced approach to connecting everybody. Run multiple challenges assigned to different business owners, set inducement competitions to capture top concepts and raise timed challenges targeting custom user groups.
The innovation stage manager serves challenges through a number of “stages” and “gates”, customizable and easily aligned to existing processes, to assist with capture, shortlisting and evaluation. Simple public or private voting rules including thumbs up/down and star ratings can be applied to grade feedback and push the best ideas to the top. Crowdicity also adds various anti-spamming and monitoring measures to maintain integrity, while certain filters and status flags ensure idea favorites are effectively shared back into the community.
Pros
The team: The people we've worked with, from leadership to support staff have all been massively helpful and responsive to our needs - it's our number on criteria when choosing a partner.
The ability to brand, design, and customize: One of the reasons we picked the site is because we could make it feel totally our own. Our designers could brand it, we could strip the functionality right back and make it super simple for users to interact with.
Feeding into the development of features: Crowdicity is always seeking feedback on their features and how the platform can improve and meet our needs in the future.
Cons
Nothing to report!
I have used Crowdicity for two Horizons - NHS England projects and have seen the platform built for Dorset Healthcare. The platform was intuitive and easy to use. There was impressive support from the Crowdicity team especially Amy who responded to our needs and suggested alternative ways we could engage our international participants. Both projects were a major success and fun to do.
Pros
Everything. I am sure there is much more that would be discovered if I was working with the platform and team for a longer period.
Cons
Did not find any problems with the software. If I was unsure of anything a quick call with the team resolved the issue and provided a range of options to build extra engagement with the platform.
I have used Crowdicity for a number of initiatives / projects over the past four years, all within the NHS (both local NHS Foundation Trust and national NHS Improving Quality work) and have continually been impressed and inspired both by the software's functionality and the wider support and care package that comes with the Crowdicity team.
The pros:
- a vibrant and social interface that makes you want to get stuck in
- fully customisable so you feel like it's your own platform, not something 'off the shelf' (something that is vital if you're to engage your crowd)
- this software is bursting with functionality and I think I've only ever scraped the surface of what it can help me achieve
- (ref: previous bullet point) it might be packed with features and capability, but it's so easy and intuitive to use (not often you get that balance right!)
- the Crowdicity team are undoubtable guru's in this field of international crowdsourcing and getting people engaged to have their say
- ongoing developments to the software mean that you get the latest features, thanks to the team who are constantly striving for improvement, quality and excellence
The cons:
- I really can't think of any other than I'd like to use it a whole lot more and wish all my work could be crowdsourced in this way! We're only just starting to realise the benefits of this kind of software in the NHS
The Crowdicity software has provided us with an intuitive, easy to access (desktop, mobile) and therefore easy to implement platform to bring otherwise isolated individuals and teams together to share challenges and ideas. Many of its features are flexible and therefore can be tailored to fit in with your business/innovation processes or to suit the requirements of a particular challenge you are launching across your community.
We have used the platform to identify key needs and challenges, asked staff to share their thoughts and ideas in response to specific challenges and to generally bring together staff across numerous hospital and community sites online. Being able to manage activity via tailored functions and groups has been key to this.
Our end to end experience of using this software has been excellent. On first approaching Crowdicity to understand more about their product through to rolling it for use across our organisation, we have been supported with helpful insight, appropriate training and responsive customer service.
Crowdicity regularly add new features and updates to keep the platform current and its functionality relevant.
The Crowdicity team have great depth of knowledge, not only of the fuctionality of their software but of the whole area of ideation, effective communication online and harnessing the power of the crowd.
We've hosted three open innovation competitions on Crowdicity's platform. I can say that I've only had positive experiences with both the Crowdicity team and software. I've rarely experienced any bugs, and in case I have any issues or questions, I can always reach out for help to the Crowdicity team.
Crowdicity offers a great user interface and encourages people to co-create online. During our latest projects we've noticed a high degree of interaction between community members, thanks to the clear design and well-thought-out-system of Crowdicity.
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Below are some frequently asked questions for Crowdicity.
Crowdicity offers the following pricing plans:
Pricing model: Subscription
Free Trial: Not Available
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Crowdicity offers the following features:
Crowdicity has the following typical customers:
Mid Size Business, Public Administrations
Crowdicity supports the following languages:
English
Crowdicity has the following pricing plans:
Subscription
We do not have any information about what devices Crowdicity supports
We do not have any information about what integrations Crowdicity has
Crowdicity offers the following support options:
Online Support, Phone Support
At C Space, we used the platform to build a collaboration platform for Omnicom called SHAPE. It's a place where people who work in agencies all over the holding company can collaborate and contribute ideas to client challenges. Working with Crowdicity has been a pleasure and we chose it both because of its functional ability, and because of the team behind it. They're collaborative, open to feedback and implement changes quickly, and give our team support whenever we require it.