Allianz UK has entered an agreement with Nosco to use Nosco App as its idea management platform for all its employees
Allianz UK has been working with idea management for many years. They have a dedicated team and a long tradition of involving employees in innovation. We are very pleased that such an experienced innovation pioneer has chosen Nosco App as the backbone of their innovation efforts.
The Mckinsey Quarterly have just published a very interesting article on crowdsourcing strategy. They write:
Crowdsourcing your strategy may sound crazy. But a few pioneering companies are starting to do just that, boosting organizational alignment in the process. Should you join them?
The problem
Strategy setting sometimes suffers from insufficient diversity and expertise, with leaders far removed from the implications of their decisions and hampered by experience-based biases.
Why it matters
Strategies developed by leaders in isolation can be flawed and sometimes aren’t embraced by the people who must implement them. Such misalignment can compromise organizational health and financial performance.
What to do about it
Pull in overlooked frontline perspectives through the use of social technologies such as wikis and internal idea markets. Work overtime to bring on board executives and middle managers. Transparency, radical inclusion, and peer review are powerful tools but can be uncomfortable for leaders up and down the line.
We definitely
That’s especially true when asking people for ideas. The better you explain what you are looking for, the better armed people will be to describe their ideas.
Clients always ask us how they should describe their topics. It’s pretty basic but nonetheless a very valuable thing to get right. We usually ask clients the questions below.
We have just released Nosco App, our brand-new idea management software. These are the ideas, thoughts and considerations we struggled with when designing Nosco App.
Our vision
Our vision was to make the best idea management software in the world. But what is that?
We knew that we could not make something to everyone’s taste. If you try, you end up tasteless and not attractive to anyone. So we started with defining the boundaries of the space Nosco App should work within. We want to be world class in a narrow field rather than average in a large one. That’s why Nosco App is a software to collect and select ideas. Next we formulated what we believe are the most important elements in (idea management) software. This is what we came up
A schizophrenic app
Collecting and selecting ideas are two very different disciplines. Collecting ideas is about motivating people to share ideas, but also
We have just released our brand new idea management software, Nosco App. We anticipate a lot of questions regarding what will happen to Idea Exchange and why we have chosen to make a new product. Hopefully this post will answer most of them. If not, feel free to add your questions in the comments.
Why make a new product?
The main differentiator of Idea Exchange has been the trading part that allows users to buy and sell shares in others’ ideas. This is also Idea Exchange’s Achilles heel: buying and selling ideas isn’t everybody’s cup of tea, and it works quite differently in different organisational cultures. So there has been a need for an additional way to rate ideas.
One of the top wishes from our clients has been the ability to run simultaneous idea campaigns with different and overlapping sets of users. Technically, it could easily be done with Idea Exchange, but
