MONTREAL, Nov. 24, 2015 /PRNewswire-iReach/ -- Planbox announces the release called ∞ 1.0 Clouded Sulphur, which marks the debut of its Agile Work InnovationTM platform. Following the recent merger, Planbox has now integrated its Innovation Management and Work Management solutions to provide a unique new offering that empowers organizations to manage the entire process of collaborating on ideas and transforming them into winning projects.
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Accelerating rate of market and technological changes is putting intense pressure on all businesses to innovate or face rapid decline. Sustainable high margin offerings are harder to develop and, increasingly, the most profitable phase of a new differentiated offering is cut short by the next disruption to hit the market. Companies are being forced to cannibalize their own winners just to stay competitive. This means organizations need to continue to figure out new ways to generate and develop high quality ideas in their innovation pipeline internally with their employees as well as with their customers and suppliers through crowdsourcing, co-creation and open innovation, which can even include collaboration with the competition.
"Organizations have been struggling with how to innovate and experiment cost effectively as well as to build a sustainable innovation system and culture. Combining agile techniques with work and innovation management is now a competitive necessity", said Ludwig Melik, CEO of Planbox.
"Over the past three years, Planbox's platform has transformed the way that Verizon collects, prioritizes and implements employee ideas. By replacing multiple "electronic suggestion boxes" with a single, enterprise-wide collaboration model that leverages the "wisdom of the crowd" and engages employees, personally, in the development and advocacy of their ideas, Verizon has realized more than $25 million in business benefits from employee ideation." - Bill Ruhl Director - CMI Excellence and Marketplace Intelligence, Verizon Communications (NYSE:VZ).
The Flagship new release comes with a new version naming convention: ∞ 1.0 Clouded Sulphur. It represents the infinity symbol, a version number and a butterfly name.
The Infinity "∞" symbol demonstrates the continuous improvement that organizations must drive with their innovation and work management efforts. It also exemplifies the game changing and unquantifiable return on investment potential of the solution.
The butterfly is in reference to the Innovation Butterfly principle - how continuous idea streams and iterative experiments result in transformational change or significant operation improvements that lead to a sustainable competitive advantage.
"This release marks a new beginning in the world of innovation management - providing organizations amazing possibilities to collaborate, experiment, learn, and iterate," said Ludwig Melik, CEO of Planbox, "Experimentation is where agile work and innovation converge".
The primary objective of this release is to provide delightful customer experience and it includes the following new capabilities to deliver on that promise:
- Unified user interface and reporting for Planbox Innovate and Work solutions. Ideas submitted and developed in Planbox Innovate are transformed into projects in Planbox Work where experiments, feedback and updates impact which ideas merit further investments
- Slick new user interface focused on simplified design, navigation and visibility
- New Decision Sessions module to help drive collaboration in focus groups to work in a real time environment and solve business challenges in 30 to 240 minute sessions. Participants can brainstorm, review objectives, assess and identify winning solutions in a virtual whiteboard/workspace style meeting
- Livery (innovation and work portal) template library to help organizations quickly launch new campaigns and engage the community with new challenges to help drive innovation
- Updated standard reporting and dashboard capabilities make it faster and more efficient to work with your data
- New advanced reporting add-on module provides dynamic dashboards and interactive as well as animated charts
- Multiple technology and security enhancements to fully leverage Microsoft Azure infrastructure
- A fully integrated secure encrypted authentication system for users who are not part of the customer's internal network
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About Planbox
Planbox is the pioneering provider of cloud-based Agile Work Innovation solutions - from creative ideas to winning projects. Our mission is to help organizations thrive by transforming the culture of agile work, continuous innovation and creativity across the entire organization. Our family of products include Collaborative Innovation Management, Team Decision Making, and Work Management applications. Planbox is designed to be the agile work innovation tool for everyone, built for companies and teams of all sizes. Planbox is trusted by some of the world's most recognized brands including Bridgestone, Sempra Energy, Starbucks, Stanford, Philips, The Salvation Army, Bruce Power and Verizon with millions of internal and external users. To learn more, visit: www.planbox.com and unleash your innovation butterfly.
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