BrightSpark Idea Management

Component Workshop Limited
Executive Summary

Agenda
About Component Workshop
Our Core Team
What is BrightSpark Idea Management?
Why BrightSpark
Idea Cycle
The BrightSpark Advantage
The BrightSpark Look
Demo

About Us
Component Workshop provides IT consultancy and software development services
Our highly experienced in house development team can solve complicated business problems with innovative software solutions
With over 10 years of experience in a broad range of sectors

Core Team
Our team includes
Management Team
Development Team
Marketing & Sales
Our senior management are represented as:
Kerry Browne
Business Development
Clair Andrews
Operations Officer
Adrian O’Connor
CTO
Floyd Price
CEO

What is BrightSpark Idea Management?
BrightSpark is an idea management system facilitating direct engagement from employees and customers.
BrightSpark is a tool that enables individuals innovative ideas and constructive feedback to be real and visible.
All Ideas, solutions, feedback and votes are all tracked, ensuring details are not lost and allowing appropriate reporting.
BrightSpark allows transparency to ideas giving the creator visible recognition.
A variety of reporting options allow companies to evaluate ideas.
Cost effective, timeline, relevance, impact.
BrightSpark enables you to leverage your most valuable assetYour employees, to encourage creativity and innovation.

Why BrightSpark?
A cost effective, technology driven approach enabling virtual collaboration across, teams, departments and companies.
Complete customisation allows you to embed your business values into every idea ensuring that new ideas are aligned to your business mission.
BrightSpark can run multiple idea campaigns across the business as well as restricted campaigns.
It's finding those innovative ideas that can set you apart from your competitors and deliver a quick return on investment.
In today’s climate a competitive edge has never meant more.
With an idea management system great ideas will organically rise to the top.
BrightSpark promotes the sharing of ideas in a corporate environment.

Idea Cycle

The BrightSpark idea cycle consists of a simple 4 step approach.
PlantSubmit your idea
CultivateShare, Grow & Develop your ideas
EvaluateAssessment of idea and conclusion determined
ActionImplementation plan

Idea Cycle

Alignment to business strategy
Automated submission process
Focused categories
Impact & required action

Idea:
“Why don’t we partner our brands for marketing?”
For example:
Bisto Gravy
&
Paxo Stuffing

Encourage participation to the idea:
Vote/ Rate
Feedback
Help promote and develop an idea into a real concept
Share your idea with a specific audience

Idea Cycle
Good cost savings idea, 2 for the price of 1 in terms of marketing, albeit a bit more effort.
Sounds good in principle, but a logistical nightmare getting the brands to agree.
“Great idea, why haven’t we done this sooner”.

Integrated into internal processes
Project Groups
Steering Committees
Business Forum
Scorecard evaluation
Benefit assessment
Cost considerations
Sign off levels
Risk assessment
Average voting
Improvement or innovation

Idea Cycle
A lot of ideas create good ideas!

Implementation Plan
Communication
Recognition
Project update
Idea bank

Idea Cycle
The greatest source of competitive
advantage is creativity!

The brightSpark Advantage
Idea Management Systems will greatly improve your ability to encourage creative and innovative ideas from all areas of your business.
BrightSpark stands above the rest by leveraging the expertise that we at Component Workshop have for Idea management and targeted idea campaigns.
When you enter into a relationship with Component Workshop you not only get a great software package, but access to a proactive team of UK based Idea Management Consultants and Software Developers that will assist your company in getting the most out of your investment.
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