Open Innovation User Guide

Challenge Cards

Idea Cards

Personal Page

Suite Bar

At the top of the Open Innovation Portal is a blue bar know as the Suite Bar. Here you can view the Open Innovation portal in a more focussed fashion which removes the banner. You can also open a preferences pane where you can change the language of the application as well as other necessary options for your profile. The below image shows the preference pane opened. To expand this click on your profile picture:

User Settings

Challenge Page

Ideas Page

3. Idea Submissions

Now you are up to speed with the user interface of the Open Innovation portal you will want to submit your first idea for a challenge. To submit a new idea you will need to open the challenge you want to submit your idea against and click the Submit an idea button (see the Challenge Page UI for a refreshed if required). Once clicked you will be presented with an idea form. This form will be fully customisable based on the fields configured by your portals administrator.

The above image is the fundamental fields to create an idea. All fields that require data added to them before it can be submitted are indicated with a red asterisk next to the field. Below is a summary of what the field is used for and details to enter:

• Title - Name you want to give your idea.
• Image - The image you wish to display on the idea card. If an image is not added a blue placeholder will be used instead.
• Description - Text used to highlight how the Open Innovation provider can benefit from your idea. You will need to include as much information as possible to make it easier for reviewers to understand your idea and allow them to progress it further in the ideas lifecycle.
• Attachments - Should you have any documents you wish to attach to the idea you can add them here. To add an attachment you can either click on the Choose a file text which will open a file explorer window. Alternatively you can drag and drop a file into the box.

As mentioned previously these fields are the fundamental fields required and your Open Innovation provider can add more fields to the form and include specific rules to make them mandatory fields.

Once you have collated all of the data to support your idea you can click on the Save button which will submit the idea to the challenge.

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4. Idea Maintenance

Should you wish to add more data or change existing data to your idea you can edit an idea easily. To edit an idea you will need to be on the idea page. You can access it via the following methods:

• Home page
• Challenge Page
• Discover Page
• Personal Page

Once you are in the idea page you will need to click on the Edit Idea button (highlighted below):

After the Edit Idea button is clicked you will be taken to the same form when creating the idea. The only difference now is the data entered previously will be already included on the form. Once any changes required have been made click on the Save button to commit the changes.

If you feel the idea is no longer relevant you can delete the idea by clicking the Delete Idea button next to the Edit Idea button.

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5. Ideas Lifecycle

You might be asking yourself now what happens now I have submitted my idea. Once you have submitted your idea the following will take place:

Each Open Innovation Provider uses edison365ideas to manage and maintain their Innovation needs. This takes their ideas and allows them to flourish into fully formed changes to Business Cases and finally a Project. Some ideas raised by our users have increased productivity and customer support levels. Knowing your ideas are making this much of an impact will mean your changes are not only improving your lives but all customer lives.