Planview IdeaPlace

Planview IdeaPlace is an innovation management product that enables organizations to run structured, time-bound challenges to generate, evaluate, and prioritize ideas from employees, partners, or the public. IdeaPlace applies natural language processing, crowd-based ranking, and expert review to narrow large volumes of ideas to those with the highest implementation potential. Selected ideas flow directly into Planview Portfolios, Planview AdaptiveWork, or Planview ProjectPlace for funding, resourcing, and execution.

Challenge Management

• Challenge templates provide a repeatable structure for launching time-bound innovation events
• TeamTap allows users to run challenges without admin access or templates
• Flexible configuration includes an admin panel with configurable idea forms, layouts, widgets, and workflow stages
• Mobile-enabled participation and external innovation support allow social media credential access for audiences outside the organization

Idea Capture and Evaluation

• Configurable idea capture forms support standard and custom fields
• Idea voting and commenting allow participants to engage with and refine submissions
• Pairwise idea ranking uses a bias-free branching algorithm to surface the highest-merit ideas
• Crowd predictions let participants estimate revenue, cost, and delivery time for submitted ideas
• Expert review supports structured, task-assigned quantitative and qualitative evaluation
• Idea workflow automation progresses ideas through stages automatically based on scoring thresholds

Analytics and Intelligence

• Smart idea consolidation uses NLP to identify and remove duplicate submissions
• Trends and sentiment analysis apply NLP across idea text
• Embedded Power BI dashboards track idea progress, cost to impact, speed to market, and employee engagement
• OData connectivity extends innovation data into Tableau, Excel, and other BI tools

Program Engagement

• Gamification features, including badges, points, and reputation scores, are tied to participation
• Social activity trends and user skill and interest profiles support challenge targeting by expertise
• A guided user experience personalizes content by language and role
• In-app guides, videos, and walkthroughs support onboarding

The Challenge Lifecycle

• Challenges move through defined stages: soft launch, ideation and collaboration, ideation closed, expert review, pairwise ranking, and selection
• A soft launch allows selected individuals to seed initial ideas and test configuration before public launch
• During ideation, participants submit, comment on, and vote on ideas, with active moderation
• Expert review panels perform detailed quantitative and qualitative assessment of ideas that meet graduation criteria
• Pairwise ranking allows participants to prioritize ideas head-to-head using a branching algorithm that removes positional and popularity bias
• In the selection stage, prioritized ideas are presented to a sponsor, who assigns next steps such as incubation, pilot, or implementation

Roles

• Administrators configure and manage the site, including user accounts, reporting, and feature enablement
• Challenge sponsors serve as the business owner of a challenge and commit to implementing selected ideas
• Moderators steer the crowd during active phases by keeping ideas on-topic, developing concepts, and connecting ideas to relevant expertise
• Experts review and score ideas during expert review through task assignment
• Participants submit ideas, vote, comment, and collaborate

Ecosystem Integrations

• Idea to Portfolio connects selected ideas to Planview Portfolios for funding decisions and strategic alignment
• Idea to Project connects winning ideas to Planview AdaptiveWork for resourcing and project execution
• Idea to Delivery Teams connects ideas to Planview ProjectPlace delivery teams through the Idea to Workspace connector