What do you like best about InspireIP?
I love new ideas. I love it when I come across one and I love it when I come up with one!
New ideas can be powerful when put to action, but in the initial moments of their inception, they themselves are volatile. If you're not careful, you'll end up forgetting most of them.
A good practice is to record a new idea as soon as you can. At a personal level, I have tried doing that both digitally (keeping Google Notes) and physically (using a idea notebook). It takes a lot of self-discipline to record all (or even most of) the ideas you have. It is much more difficult to do at a team level.
For me, InspireIP solves this problem at work. Earlier we used to do this ad-hoc and no surprise that a lot of good ideas just slipped through the cracks.
When we began using InspireIP, after about a month of getting into the habit of it, we developed a muscle memory of filing the ideas as soon as we had them.
Now we collect all kind of ideas in InspireIP. Some are tiny improvement ideas like whether we should put a painting on a wall that's bare. Some are innovative - like an initiative that can increase the team's efficiency.
We don't judge the ideas. We just file them all. Later on, if we are still excited about it, we can decide whether to share the idea with the team or the management to take it forward - or not.
This has brought a lot of streamlining. At the end of last year we also recognized people who had shared the maximum number of ideas and people who had implemented the greatest fraction of their ideas and so on.
I think InspireIP is a great tool to build a culture of innovation and ideation in teams. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.