Capture and action the best ideas from your people.
4.6/5 (27 reviews)Idea Drop is a lightweight yet powerful online idea management solution deployable within the cloud and supported by native mobile apps. Leveraging familiar social media tools and techniques, the platform enables businesses to crowdsource ideas, comment and feedback on innovative suggestions from their employees. Organisations and teams can stimulate engagement in collaborative problem solving by setting challenges and inviting groups or individuals to respond. Ideas can then be “dropped” from any device at anytime, meeting set deadlines and even being rewarded with prizes if deemed among the best.
With support of push notifications and custom email alerts, Idea Drop also makes it easier to broadcast challenges and drive engagement with your innovation programme. From an intuitive dashboard UI, curators can keep track of ideas feed featuring automatic ranking and real-time scoring based on social signals from the community. Filtering tools then facilitate idea analysis to interrogate the data around the collected feedback, discover trends and develop effective strategies for taking business forward. Extensive admin options enable Idea Drop to be customised to meet specific corporate requirements, while reports can be exported to csv for rapid sharing.
Pros
Fast to onboard team members; very low training costs; highly intuitive design and user experience. The mobile apps are a big plus for us too as a number of our team members are rarely at their desk. Particularly like the status tool, which enables us to align our workflow with ideas and keep everyone in tune with what we're doing with the ideas they share. Cloaking is popular too enabling staff to hide their identities when sharing ideas.
Cons
Would love to see wider integrations with other elements of our tech stack such as Slack and Office 365.
Positive experience and the staff are really helpful even after post launch. Turnaround on issues is resolved in good time
Pros
Easy to use and fit for purpose. Optimized for mobile. The score system is great
Cons
There are a few restrictions on reports, manually having to request monthly innovation score reports. Branding is restricted. Doesn't allow you to upload videos. You don't get notified every time a new idea comes through unless you follow that person, difficult with on a huge scale.
Dear Roxanne,
Thank you so much for taking the time to submit a review.
We are very glad to hear you enjoy using Idea Drop and that you find it well optimised for purpose which is to effectively drive innovation in Microgaming.
Just wanted to clarify that even though we don't support native videos yet, it is possible to add Youtube and Vimeo videos to enrich your ideas and challenges.
Thank you once again for your feedback. We are constantly improving our platform as well as adding new features. An improved reporting possibilities and notification system is already in our roadmap and will be available for you to use very soon.
Best wishes,
Idea Drop team
Expert network connection and input to technical issues
Pros
Being able to connect to people I don't know
Ability to create challenges to get inputs and ideas submitted to specific problems
Ability to see other challenges and contribute ideas to them
Interaction with global network over different time zones
Removes organisational hierarchy barriers
Cons
Could be more intuitive in user interface - minor point
Software is web based so is not loaded as part of daily pc start-up - needs positive action to engage
Pros
- Modern and intuitive user interface and user experience.
- Social features facilitate communication around ideas.
- Transparency for everyone in the organisation.
- Accompanying ideas from origination until its implementation.
Cons
Currently it is the performance. Due to the amount of ideas we experience long page loads within the main functionalities. Also there is some space for user interface optimisation.
Fantastic experience. Idea Drop is vested in our success!
Pros
Idea Drop is very intuitive and easy to use. The features and functionality are robust and allow one to post ideas, challenges, share results and access the best ideas via dashboards and reports. There is a lot of collaboration and application for Idea Drop in our healthcare organization.
The Idea Drop team is phenomenal and has helped us every step of the way. Idea Drop provides great planning and training tools/resources and is customizable.
Cons
We love Idea Drop and the Idea Drop team. We would like if Idea Drop had more robust capabilities to link multiple departments and employees together (for posting challenges/ideas). Other than this, everything is great!
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Idea Drop offers the following pricing plans:
Pricing model: Subscription
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Idea Drop has the following typical customers:
Large Enterprises, Mid Size Business, Public Administrations
Idea Drop supports the following languages:
English, French, Spanish
Idea Drop has the following pricing plans:
Subscription
Idea Drop supports the following devices:
Android, iPhone, iPad
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Idea Drop offers the following support options:
Knowledge Base, Online Support, Phone Support, Video Tutorials
We quickly saw the benefits of Idea Drop as teams throughout the business began collaborating, communicating and sharing ideas in ways we hadn't seen before with our existing tech stack. Idea Drop's fresh interface and intuitive social features made it quick to onboard our teams and we now rely on it to capture, enrich and action new ideas across the business on an ongoing basis.