--- title: Brightidea Innovation Management Reviews meta\_title: 'Brightidea Innovation Management Reviews 2026: Details, Pricing, & Features | G2' meta\_description: Filter 214 reviews by the users' company size, role or industry to find out how Brightidea Innovation Management works for a business like yours. aggregate\_rating: rating\_value: 4.3 review\_count: 214 scale: '5' date\_modified: '2026-08-09' parent\_category: name: Collaboration & Productivity url: https://www.g2.com/categories/collaboration-productivity --- # Brightidea Innovation Management Reviews & Product Details Claimed ###### Profile Status This profile is currently managed by Brightidea Innovation Management but has limited features. Are you part of the Brightidea Innovation Management team? [Upgrade your plan](https://my.g2.com/brightidea-innovation-management/upgrade?utm_campaign=s3&utm_medium=claim-popup&utm_source=g2) to enhance your branding and engage with visitors to your profile! With over 2 million users world wide and $15+ billion in recorded business impact, Brightidea is ranked as the #1 Idea Management Platform globally and is the market leader in innovation management and Hackathon software and services. Here at Brightidea, we believe that innovation is too important to be left to chance, and that every individual deserves an opportunity to have their voice heard. Our focus is not only giving organizations the ability to readily crowdsource ideas and build on strategic plans, but also back every idea with complex data points to help you track, manage, and prioritize ideas to ensure the best ideas always win. We are designed to fit any size, scale, or level of maturity when it comes to idea or innovation management. Brightidea helps you harness the power of ideas to help you foster a culture of innovation within the company. Most recently, we've added the Whiteboard. Brightidea Whiteboard gives your team a place to brainstorm in your own infinite space via a browser. Create stickies for new ideas, upload images, draw with dynamic pen and marker tools, emote with rich reactions, leverage smart tools like timers to keep your meetings on track, and utilize all of your favorite idea and innovation management templates. Wherever you're at in your innovation journey, our platform & people will help you get to the next level. * * * Seller [Brightidea](https://www.g2.com/sellers/brightidea) Discussions [Brightidea Innovation Management Community](https://www.g2.com/products/brightidea-innovation-management/discuss) Solution Type All-in-One Overview by Omari Starks Show More ## Value at a Glance Averages based on real user reviews. ### Time to Implement 3 months ### Return on Investment 24 months [ View More Pricing Information ](https://www.g2.com/products/brightidea-innovation-management/pricing) ## Top-Rated Alternatives [ ![Ideanote](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Ideanote") Ideanote 4.7/5(286) ](https://www.g2.com/products/ideanote/reviews) [ ![Qmarkets Impact-Driven Innovation Software](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Qmarkets Impact-Driven Innovation Software") Qmarkets Impact-Driven Innovation Software 4.5/5(43) ](https://www.g2.com/products/qmarkets-impact-driven-innovation-software/reviews) [ ![Aha!](/assets/transparent-ad5be28fbcd25b7b08d2cebe1d957125437fb5407d75ee717965ad22c8808791.gif "Aha!") 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Recommendations to others considering Brightidea Innovation Management: Ensure you educate your teams about how to get the most out of the application Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Brightidea Innovation Management solving and how is that benefiting you? BrightIdea helps the Business decide how to proceed on the optimum innovations to keep the company on the front foot in the market place Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 1/9/2023 Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: Seller invite ![Verified User in Research](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Research") AR Verified User in Research Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 4/21/2023 "Intuitive and streamlined ideation tool" 4/5 What do you like best about Brightidea Innovation Management? The very intuitive and streamlined setup to facilitate ideation. The pipeline arrangement with status and steps makes it very simple and easy to encourage and track ideas and their review and processing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Brightidea Innovation Management? While I realize that customization is going to be specific to each entity that utilizes the platform, there is a certain lack of ability to customize pipelines that can be annoying at times because of lot the ideas are very simple to implement and won't affect the general structure of the platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Brightidea Innovation Management solving and how is that benefiting you? The ability to coordinate and streamline the ideation process and maintain a full record of the process from initial conceptualization through to implementation. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite on behalf of seller ![Verified User in Airlines/Aviation](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Airlines/Aviation") AA Verified User in Airlines/Aviation Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 12/20/2022 "There are many more tools than different companies' applications" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Brightidea Innovation Management? Challenge and Trend app is my favourite. And you can assign any ideas to relevant people Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Brightidea Innovation Management? Some report tool does not provide enough data.For example ideas owners unit and sub unit is not clear Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Brightidea Innovation Management solving and how is that benefiting you? When I convey the idea to the relevant unit or person, if the evaluator does not like the idea, they can reject the proposal, but can only write a comment as a reason for rejection. I think it would be better if the admin could enter the rejection reasons into the system with certain templates and if these templates were presented to the evaluator as a list. Because when the ideas are withdrawn from the system, the reasons for rejection are different. If reasons become patterns, Reports are more make sense. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite on behalf of seller BC brigitte c. Innovation Specialist Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 7/20/2022 "IT IS NOT JUST ABOUT THE PLATFORM BUT THE SERVICE" 4/5 What do you like best about Brightidea Innovation Management? Bright Idea was challenging to manage 2 years ago, it can be quite complex and with not much flexibility on the visual side of the challenges. Nevertheless, what I have seen during the last year is a reason to believe in the product. They have been adapting quickly to clients' needs, the back end is constantly changing to make the experience more simple and intuitive. Yes, I still feel we are in the middle of changes when using the platform, but the UX has improved a lot during the last year. That paired with the level of client service that we received from Bright Idea, is enough reason for us to recommend the product and keep it as our idea management system. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Brightidea Innovation Management? The poor flexibility for the visual construction of the home of the challenges (design, colors, letters, pictures, videos). I do not enjoy how the export of data from the platform works, it is difficult to find what export is the one containing what you need. Finally, in general, the set-up of the pipeline, access, and all challenge details is still pretty complex and from different places in the platform. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Brightidea Innovation Management solving and how is that benefiting you? We are really democratizing ideas at my organization, we are finding different use cases to open opportunities for all to be part of the solution, it has increased transparency of the process and allocation of resources, as well as elevated the recognition of the employees who want to be and are part of the change and action. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: Seller invite ![Verified User in Health, Wellness and Fitness](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Health, Wellness and Fitness") AH Verified User in Health, Wellness and Fitness Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 1/15/2023 "Great platform to jumpstart idea collection, review and tracking" 3.5/5 What do you like best about Brightidea Innovation Management? Ease for anyone to jumpstart an innovation challenge, and Zita is a great asset to support how to use the Bright Idea Platform. She gave very good pieces of advice. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Brightidea Innovation Management? The UI/UX is not so intuitive, and there is limited option to customize the color, layout, etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Brightidea Innovation Management solving and how is that benefiting you? Digital transformation to have new ideas coming in. However, we also have a problem collecting existing WIP ideas and organization of the internal symposium, which the platform is not so friendly yet. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerSource: Organic ![Verified User in Education Management](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Education Management") AE Verified User in Education Management Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 3/30/2023 "Contributes to Employee Voice and Value" 4.5/5 What do you like best about Brightidea Innovation Management? Brightidea is a one-stop shop for all innovative and creative ideas. It is a place where voices are amplified and can be seen by the right people to enact change. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Brightidea Innovation Management? Reminding people to use the site with fidelity. It is a struggle to have users continually on the platform. Is there any way Brightidea can help make the site more exciting for users? Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Brightidea Innovation Management solving and how is that benefiting you? Amplifying employee voice, encouraging collaboration across the district, providing opportunities to see others' ideas, and having students utilize the platform for different events. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Validated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite on behalf of seller ![Verified User in Architecture & Planning](/assets/icons/anonymous-avatar-purple-4ae1032bdb50ee5682003170c8184aee790d25958bd397abbd384ba52c596a7b.svg "Verified User in Architecture & Planning") AA Verified User in Architecture & Planning Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 12/20/2022 "customizable innovation platform with room for improvements" 3.5/5 What do you like best about Brightidea Innovation Management? people are very helpful and friendly, and the interface affords us the ability to easily create multiple initiatives throughout the year and deploy them. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Brightidea Innovation Management? leaves some things to be desired in terms of customizability and external users. Interface could be less bulky Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Brightidea Innovation Management solving and how is that benefiting you? Bright idea creates a solution for our programs by allowing users to put their ideas and submissions all in one place that can be easily reviewed by a jury and commented on by peers Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite on behalf of seller JP Jennifer P. Senior Technical Writer Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 9/24/2021 "Excellent Product and Outstanding Service" 5/5 What do you like best about Brightidea Innovation Management? BrightIdea is intuitive, easy to use, and best of all has helped as an organization to allow the best ideas to win. Also, I have to mention our service and support teams. I have never been disappointed in the speed with which someone has answered a question. Whether it's a question to Donny or to Brian in Service, or Veronika - we are ecstatic with the level of service at every level. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Brightidea Innovation Management? This isn't a dislike, but more of a request - I wish that the analytics were deeper. I would love even a CSV dump of selected fields in an initiative. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Brightidea Innovation Management solving and how is that benefiting you? We have solved the problem of too many administrative and overhead tasks for our twice-annual innovation sprint. We have saved approximately 40 hours in work for each innovation sprint. Additionally, we have been delighted to discover that we have a secondary use for BrightIdea as well! We have moved to SAFe Agile and are utilizing BrightIdea for our Accelerator Week every program increment. This has been an unexpected and fantastic additional return on our ROI. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More 3/24/2022 Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: G2 invite on behalf of seller JO Jordan O. Project Coordinator Enterprise (\> 1000 emp.) 3/11/2022 "I really like Brightidea, it works great for our company." 4/5 What do you like best about Brightidea Innovation Management? I like how easy it is to use. It is a pretty user friendly platform, does not take to much to get a grip on what you are doing. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Brightidea Innovation Management? I wish there was more collaboration in the team workspace. It would be really nice if you could have multiple people working in the space at the same time. Or if you could have people working in a file at the same time, similar to how you can have multiple people working in a word doc save out on Teams. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Recommendations to others considering Brightidea Innovation Management: Use all of the products that are available to you! There are so many different ways to collect information or ideas from employees Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Brightidea Innovation Management solving and how is that benefiting you? We are mainly using BI to collect innovative ideas within the company. We have recently used some of the timed forums, they have been very helpful. We have realized keeping an open "suggestion box" has allowed people to drop ideas in at any time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: Seller invite RR Reza R. Associate Industrial Engineer Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.) 5/11/2022 "Brightidea allows us to properly assign and flow ideas with visibility and traceability at all steps" 4/5 What do you like best about Brightidea Innovation Management? Allows quick and easy access for posting ideas from around the shop. Allows visibility and automatic delegation to subject matter experts in that area. It has specific steps and questions that give the flow a structured design. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What do you dislike about Brightidea Innovation Management? Lacking in customizability for the command center and reports. Action Item views are set in one aspect and can not be changed. Rules have a lot of options but could use more field completions (ex: Option A chosen from multiple choice question, then execute X, Y, Z). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. What problems is Brightidea Innovation Management solving and how is that benefiting you? We are now seeing ideas that have been aging for a while and getting priority on them. We now have proper resources and equal participation on ideas for each of the categories. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com. Show More Current UserValidated ReviewerIncentivizedSource: Seller invite ## Questions about Brightidea Innovation Management? 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