Unleash the Power of Your Employees The document discusses how IdeaBox, a product from Magnet, can help businesses unleash the potential of employees through increased engagement and innovation. It provides four key capabilities of IdeaBox: 1) Crowd-sourcing ideas from employees, 2) Facilitating knowledge sharing through social learning and recognition, 3) Mobilizing workflows and information to improve productivity, and 4) Simplifying important corporate communications through high-visibility pinning of topics. Engaged employees directly contribute to business success, and IdeaBox offers a platform for ideation and expression to help democratize that process.

1. Unleash the Power of
Your Employees
4 Mobile Capabilities that Create an Agile
Workplace and Increase Employee Engagement

2. Harnessing the Power of Employees with Mobile
Your employees are your most valuable asset. Those that work with customers on a daily basis can provide valuable
feedback on product needs and competitor movements. Those that interact with partners and suppliers can share
best practices on improving business processes for greater efficiency and cost savings. The collective knowledge and
expertise of your employees is especially critical in a market that is fast moving. It drives the success of your business
and your brand.
All high performing employees feel valued if they can grow their skills and if they are provided with a platform to share
ideas. Such a platform makes them more engaged and they believe they can make an impact to the business. Engaged
employees are more likely to stay with the company and also recommend it to potential recruits as a great place to
work.
But in most organizations today, the tools to access information and share ideas openly and freely are at best archaic.
They are not only restrictive in their format (intranets, ERP, email, distribution lists) but are also not easily extended to
mobile - a huge drawback especially given the fact that millennials, employees that are 35 years old and under, are
the largest generation in the workforce today. A majority of this generation has grown up with mobile technology
and micro-interactions ranging from Instagram and 2-word emoji chats with friends to opening bank accounts
right from their phones. The challenge with tapping employee brainpower to promote an entrepreneurial culture, is
further compounded when teams are globally dispersed and both time and distance pose an additional barrier for the
effective crowdsourcing of ideas.
Creating an innovative, agile workplace with IdeaBox
IdeaBox, from Magnet, helps businesses unleash the potential of employees to create a workplace that values
innovation, drives better employee engagement and ultimately competitive advantage.
IdeaBox makes it convenient to crowdsource ideas at the right time, to share them easily and to allow them to grow
organically as is essential to the ideation process. Teams can use IdeaBox to gain insight into market trends or product
performance and encourage social learning and recognition. Organizations can also use it to mobilize workflows
and information, all in a format that users love. Below are the four-key capabilities of IdeaBox that can benefit your
organization:
The value of engaged employees
COMPANIES WITH ENGAGED
EMPLOYEES OUTPERFORM THOSE
WITHOUT BY UP TO 202%
Dale Carnegie Engaged Employee Survey
202%
$11 BILLION IS LOST ANNUALLY DUE
TO EMPLOYEE TURNOVER
Dale Carnegie Engaged Employee Survey
$11B
CULTURE AND ENGAGEMENT WAS
RATED THE MOST IMPORTANT ISSUE
OVERALL FOR HR LEADERS
Deloitte’s 2015 Global Human Capital Trends
79%

3. Crowd-source ideas
Your teams are no longer restricted to laborious aliases or distribution lists
but can now conveniently share their thoughts and updates in a free flow
fashion right from their mobile device.
With IdeaBox teams can also engage in one-one and group chats, bringing
the familiarity and ease of consumer messaging apps to the enterprise
thereby simplifying the collaboration experience.
BENEFIT 1
It takes a village to build a successful business.
IdeaBox greatly simplifies the ability to crowd-
source employee input and ideas - whether
it is feedback on a product launch, an update
about a competitor or collecting information
on new health benefits.
Tap Into Employee Brain Power

4. While new, corporate sanctioned e-learning programs are increasingly
prevalent in organizations, you cannot ignore the internal tribal knowledge
that exists within the experience of your employees. With IdeaBox,
employees can easily share short video tutorials or documents – unlocking
valuable knowledge that may otherwise be lost forever if the
person leaves the company. Other employees can then view these and
choose to “like” or provide comments, giving a more social flavor to
training and recognition. Individuals or teams can also choose to subscribe
to or follow discussion forums that may be informational or help them
acquire a new skill.
Ongoing learning and development is essential to any
organization that values an agile workforce and needs to
adapt rapidly to market disruptions.
BENEFIT
Social learning and
recognition
2
Facilitate Knowledge Sharing

5. With IdeaBox, you can now offer employees the flexibility and choice to
take care of their tasks when they want and from their preferred mobile
device, without needing to follow a prescribed sequential flow.
Teams can also collaborate on projects and keep track of their tasks more
easily. IdeaBox improves employee productivity by taking advantage of the
convenience of available mobile moments – while standing at the train
station or waiting for your coffee - to get work done.
BENEFIT 3
In most organizations, key workflows such as PTO
submission, purchase order approval etc. are locked
up behind intranets or complex ERP applications.
Mobilize information and
workflows
Get Work Done When Mobile

6. With IdeaBox, organizations such as HR or executives can share and “pin”
high priority topics – surveys, updates etc. such that they are always visible
at the top of the app. For example, the HR department can pin posts on
important health benefits updates or the executive team may post a request
for feedback that is pinned for immediate input. The ability to “pin” high
priority information means that your employees will never miss an important
communication again.
In summary, empowered employees are engaged employees and engaged
employees directly contribute to the success of your business. With IdeaBox
you can democratize ideation by offering all employees a platform on which
they can express their point of view.
BENEFIT 4
Provide high visibility to
important communication
The always-full inbox means that it is very easy to
miss out on important company communication that
may either be informational or require an action to
be taken.
Simplify Corporate Communications

7. Magnet’s mission is to help the enterprise move to mobile. We see messaging
and chat as the new development platform for companies to achieve this.
Our secure, intelligent messaging and in-app chat SDKs allow companies to
build powerful, contextual and highly engaging mobile apps to help users
(both consumers and employees) more easily connect with businesses,
and companies create more loyalty, engagement and satisfaction, one
conversation at a time.
FIND OUT MORE
www.magnet.com