This startup may straddle both – the virtual & real – worlds but we decided to feature it on our Website, anyway. Positioned as a solutions Site than an Ideas one, Thinkerous is a community platform for sharing ideas that solve impactful issues.
So you have tabs such as Ideas, Hot, New, Issues. Anyone is free to put up just about any topic in them. Eg: Physical companies cannot give customer feedback. Imagine you are a small company, you may provide some kind of service or sell some kind of good. People enter you store, or they call you, they can even contact you through the internet. They ask some quick questions, then they buy your product or service, or they leave without buying.
Then, anyone who has an opinion or an idea on how to resolve the issue can write in. Of course, everyone needs to register & then log in before doing all of that.
Thinkerous goes beyond just being a crowdsourcing solutions platform. It offers what it calls ‘Enterprise Innovation Management & Idea Management Solutions’. Any enterprise can subscribe (for a fee) to this, asking its employees & partners for crowdsource ideas, resources, & experiences. This, it claims, helps the enterprise to discover the solutions to some of the “most impactful issues in your organization.”
Using Thinkerous, enterprises can measure the value of initiatives, quantify return on innovation & even gamify success.
Some of the features it offers include:
- 3rd party integrations for Single Sign-On/SAML
- All communications encrypted for security
- Automatic, daily backups
- Compatible with all modern browsers
- Log on from anywhere, including your phone &Tablet
- Voting, commenting, features
- Track progress on each submission
- Proprietary prioritization algorithms to quantify “impact”
- User innovation scores
- Powerful reporting & analytics
Already, some companies like 1Q Labs have signed up for the Thinkerous Enterprise program. You may click here to find out more about this crowdsourcing solutions Site.
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