Planbox introduces new features that streamline innovation-related tasks.

Wilmington, Delaware — Planbox, the pioneering agile innovation management platform, has unveiled its latest round of Innovations & Improvements (I&I) to its top-ranking platform. This edition of I&I represents a leap forward in Planbox capabilities, with an array of exciting updates that elevate its search, challenges, and innovation dashboard features to new levels of functionality and usability.

Bring the power of Google into Planbox

Innovate At the Speed of Search

The first area of improvement is the platform’s ElasticSearch function, which has been bolstered with powerful new algorithms and intuitive search filters that make it easier than ever for users to find the information they need quickly and efficiently. Whether you’re searching for specific ideas, challenges, or contributors, Planbox’s improved search feature makes the process smoother and more effective.

Type keywords and hit enter. Optionally, select a filter from the dropdown:

Search results are then displayed in the form of neatly organized sections:

Launch challenges in a blink of an eye

Why Create When You Can Reuse?

Another key area of focus for this latest round of I&I is Planbox’s Challenge Gallery feature, which boasts a vast selection of pre-designed and configurable templates that admins and innovation advocates can launch instantly. By copying over information, form fields, business rules, and workflows from previous challenges, users can save time and resources while ensuring consistency and best practices across all challenges. What’s more, the Challenge Gallery serves as an excellent source of inspiration for users looking to launch innovation challenges to their exact specifications without having to start from scratch.

Browse an ever-growing gallery of challenge templates, select one, make adjustments, and launch your challenge:

Get a visual pulse check of all activity

Seeing Is Half the Battle

Lastly, Planbox brought updates to its Innovation Dashboard, the ultimate tool for tracking and analyzing innovation activity across the entire system. Through the use of metrics presented in the form of bar charts, pie charts, heat maps, data tables, and more, it enables innovation leaders to assess the degree of program engagement, analyze results, and compare trends over time. This quarter, Planbox expanded its dashboard with the introduction of four additional sections that capture an even broader range of metrics, offering a new level of insight into the innovation process:

  • Overview
  • Engagement
  • UsersNEW
  • Sessions
  • TasksNEW
  • LocationNEW
  • PipelineNEW

Users 

View all users’ activity, and identify the top contributors to the innovation program based on the number of points they have earned within a specific timeframe, which takes into account ideas and comments submitted, votes cast, tasks completed, and badges obtained. This approach helps to rank the most active and valuable participants in the system.

Tasks

Monitor the progress users are making on their assigned tasks with consolidated data from Task Sessions, Planbox’s unique task-based evaluation method enabling reviewers and administrators to better manage the evaluation of ideas. Explore additional evaluation methods offered by Planbox.

Location

Analyze user participation and activity breakdown across all locations to gain insights into how your innovation program is performing in different regions.

Pipeline

Gain a comprehensive understanding of the progress of ideas as they move through the evaluation process according to their statuses or workflow groups. This allows users to identify bottlenecks or delays in the evaluation process and take corrective action to keep the innovation program healthy.

Each colored segment provides a breakdown of the ideas, which includes:

  • User (Submitter)
  • User’s Department
  • User’s Location
  • Idea Title
  • Number of Comments
  • Number of Votes

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About Planbox

Innovation is at the heart of becoming Future-Fit. By aligning our software with ISO 56002 guidance standards, our end-to-end agile innovation management platform and services empower medium and large-sized organizations to become more adaptive, creative, and resilient. Planbox helps you turn creative ideas into winning projects and integrate everyday tools to collaborate smarter with your community of employees, customers, partners, startups, governments, academia, and expert solvers. Planbox has offices in Canada, UK, and USA, with customers around the world in over 140 countries.