HunchBuzz

HunchBuzz is a collaboration and problem-solving platform designed to facilitate discussions, generate ideas, and drive innovation within organizations of all sizes, according to the vendor. This versatile tool caters to a wide range of professions and industries, including business analysts, innovation managers, human resources, project managers, and government organizations. With its comprehensive features and user-friendly interface, HunchBuzz aims to empower teams to tackle challenges, foster creativity, and make informed decisions.

Key Features

Define a challenge: According to the vendor, HunchBuzz guides the discussion by posing compelling questions and creating broad or specific topics. Users have the flexibility to set time-limited or open-ended challenges that can be made available to everyone or specific groups.

Generate ideas: HunchBuzz enables collaboration across the organization by allowing users to contribute ideas, feedback, comments, reviews, polls, and votes, as claimed by the vendor. The platform also incentivizes and rewards contributors for their valuable input. Users can access HunchBuzz from any device, ensuring seamless participation.

Evaluate and act: The vendor states that HunchBuzz engages the community in evaluating ideas through voting, commenting, and discussion. Users have the ability to customize the idea lifecycle stages to align with their organization's workflow. Additionally, HunchBuzz allows users to create polls to gather quick feedback from the community.

Structured idea generation: HunchBuzz provides the capability to create focused challenges that drive specific outcomes, according to the vendor. Participants can contribute ideas, feedback, comments, reviews, polls, and votes to enhance the idea generation process. Customizable idea lifecycle stages are available to streamline the innovation process.

Mobile: According to the vendor, HunchBuzz allows users to join the conversation and contribute ideas from any device. Users can download the mobile app for iOS and Android to stay connected and engaged on the go.

Integrated: HunchBuzz seamlessly integrates with Microsoft 365 tools such as Sharepoint, Teams, Yammer, and Active Directory, as claimed by the vendor. The platform also offers integration with Slack to enhance collaboration across platforms. Additionally, users can leverage the HunchBuzz API for programmatic integration with other systems.

Drive user engagement: HunchBuzz aims to foster user engagement through built-in gamification features like points, rewards, leaderboard, favorites, and achievements, according to the vendor. The platform incentivizes user loyalty and participation to create a vibrant and active community. Users receive activity notifications to stay updated on important discussions and developments.

Rich reporting and analytics: According to the vendor, HunchBuzz provides valuable insights into community dynamics through a comprehensive dashboard. Users can track community vitals, idea lifecycle, site stats, and leaderboard. The platform also offers features to identify trending ideas and challenges, track the most active users, and monitor usage patterns over time. The idea explorer allows users to explore the relative popularity of ideas and uncover connections between them.

Work like you do: HunchBuzz allows users to create users and groups that align with their organization's structure, according to the vendor. Users can segment the audience for specific access and collaboration. The platform offers customization options such as colors and logos to match the organization's brand identity. Additionally, HunchBuzz provides built-in blog and news capabilities to share updates and information with the community.