Continuously manage product ideas to ensure the best ideas are in your product.

With idea management, you connect ideas seamlessly with the rest of your product development process. Idea management involves tracking all of the ideas you’ve captured, and evaluating these ideas across key decision factors such as investment, ROI, competitive advantage, strategy alignment, risk profile, resource capacity, and other metrics. What’s more, by enrolling key stakeholders – particularly customers – in this process, you can better transform ideas into viable and successful products.

By engaging your customer community in idea management, in addition to idea capture, you can:

• Centralize all ideas captured. This can save up to 15-20% of each product manager’s time by eliminating manual methods of idea management such as email, spreadsheets, post-it notes, and even paper files.
• Engage the customer community. By letting community members submit, rate, enhance, and refine ideas, you can sharply reduce the time it would otherwise take to gather, circulate, vet, prioritize, refine, and determine the disposition of product ideas – by as much as one day per idea managed.
• Create filters to sort ideas. Filtering ideas by idea stage, date, and other profile characteristics, for instance, helps to pinpoint what customers value most and significantly increases the likelihood of success.
• Eliminate non-starter ideas. When ideas are properly managed, product managers can more easily identify those ideas the market deems unimportant or undesirable. Then it’s easier to the mistake of investing in products or features no one wants.
  
  

The result? Good ideas are improved, the best ones rise to the top, and product executives can focus their scarce development resources on the highest-value work.

Accept Ideas is an on-demand idea management software solution that helps you capture, analyze, prioritize, and ultimately develop the best product ideas. Accept Ideas first enables you to capture ideas from throughout your community of customers, employees and business partners, then manage ideas so that the best ones rise to the top. Then by tightly integrating with Accept Requirements Management software and Portfolio Management software, Accept Ideas ensures you create a place where ideas are nurtured – not abandoned – and stay closely connected to the product development process.

Learn more about Accept’s suite of innovation software products to find out how you can deliver better products to market more swiftly.