Easily run an on-demand, organisation-wide ‘Call for Ideas’ innovation competition

Easily run an on-demand, organisation-wide ‘Call for Ideas’ innovation competition

Empower staff to collaboratively identify problems, create impactful solutions, test ideas, and co-create the future of your organisation.

Empower staff to collaboratively identify problems, create impactful solutions, test ideas, and co-create the future of your organisation.

We have supported numerous organisations on their Innovation Journey

We have supported numerous organisations on their Innovation Journey

Integrated tools that capture valuable staff ideas & accelerate your innovation culture

Frontline & desk teams

Structured & staged process

Participants are seamlessly guided through the proven design thinking innovation framework, complete with two staged deadlines, templates, how-to videos, expert Pro Tips and motivational nudges.

Boost engagement

Iterative problem-solving

Feedback from a trained AI Idea Assistant, our innovation specialists and ideally one of your subject matter experts is routed systematically, ensuring robust testing of ideas while fostering flexible, agile thinking.

Enterprise ready

Collaborative & social experience

Teams collaborate, share perspectives & align,celebrating gamified milestones, building supportive networks. Peers stay motivated and immersed as they react & comment on the ideas of others in our Anytime Chatroom.

Adoption rates

Frictionless for Host Organisers

Real-time dashboards and platform notifications & alerts enable hosts to invest time supporting teams, rather than chasing them. Our final report is stakeholder-ready with insights, trends & recommendations.

Win-win for your staff, organisation & host organisers

Benefits for your employees

Nurture your employees’ creative, analytical, and agile problem-solving skills while fostering the confidence they require to tackle complex organisational challenges. These are the core skills that the World Economic Forum identify as being crucial for future success.

Facilitate your people to work with colleagues from different areas of your organisation – staff with different, often fresh perspectives – in order to strengthen organisational connections and improve overall outcomes.

Boost staff capability to move successfully across the full innovation journey, from user empathy and ideation through to prototyping, testing, and implementation.

Reconnect with what matters, contribute to meaningful goals, and feel part of shaping the organisation’s future.

Benefits for your organisation

Tap into the knowledge, insights, and collective creativity of your employees and their ability to frame and solve important organisational challenges that they care about.

Encourage cross-collaboration and build supportive networks across your organisation including knowledge management, experience-sharing, co-creation, and shared ownership of projects.

Enable your organisation and it’s people to confidently move up an innovation gear—learning faster, acting smarter – creating habitual innovators for the long-term.

Boost employee motivation, commitment, and alignment with your organisation’s vision, mission, purpose and values.

Benefits for your organisation

Track each student’s journey in real time with clear insights into participation, feedback, and growth. Identify who’s thriving and who needs support — all from one simple dashboard.

Encourage cross-collaboration including communication, co-creation and shared ownership of projects.

Reinforce that everyone is creative and capable of framing problems, developing, prototyping & testing ideas.

Boost employee motivation, commitment, and alignment with the organisation’s mission.

Benefits for Host Organisers

Launch, track, and evaluate innovation challenges effortlessly — all in one integrated platform.

Attract more staff involvement with tools that make challenges social, gamified, and rewarding.

Access real-time data and analytics to identify promising ideas and intervene with those that need a boost.

Receive a clear, data-rich summary of participation, outcomes, and impact — ready to share with your leadership team, your Board of Directors and other interested parties.

A proven experience that deliver results

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Reduction in workload for host organiser to run a ‘Call for Ideas’ competition

FAQs

This varies greatly depending on the emphasis the host wants to place on the competition. Remember this is an initiative that is run over and above everyday organisational activities and does not require employees to take time away from their desk.

Typically we see a call for ideas window open anytime from say 1-5 days to 2-3 weeks.

Ultimately, it is totally the host’s decision on how long a challenge lasts.

The platform is an excellent tool for improving the effectiveness and efficiency of online Hackathons or Design Sprints.

A key benefit of the platform is that the organisers dashboard enables hosts to track the progress of virtual teams. They can therefore easily identify teams that are struggling and send ‘mentors’ or ‘coaches’ into their breakout rooms to offer support and guidance.

Not at all — the platform is intuitive, browser-based, inspired by leading social media apps, and comes with templates and guidance, so you can get started in minutes without any coding knowledge.

Our customer success team handle all of the heavy lifting from a tech standpoint and integrate your preferred structure and wording.

Absolutely — Calls for Ideas Competitions are designed with inclusivity and accessibility built in. Users of all learning backgrounds can engage at their own pace, with clear guidance and support built in. Although the platform is designed to follow the leading problem solving framework, it offers users flexibility in ideating their solution.

Anytime Innovation elevates employee voices by turning workplace challenges into collaborative problem-solving spaces. Employees don’t just receive direction — they contribute perspectives. Their lived experience with processes, customers, and internal operations becomes a source of inspiration, improvement and innovation that leadership can actually act on.

Hosts using the platform have reported measurable improvements in engagement, collaboration, and problem-solving skills. We provide analytics to help you track progress every step of the way.

Our success stories demonstrate our past successes and a simple consultation will inform you on how we could enhance the future of your module.

Ready to run a staff ‘Call for Ideas’ competition?