Planview IdeaPlace

Formerly Planview Spigit

Planview Spigit is best suited for capturing ideas and processing them for acceptance (or in our case, successful transition from idea to project). It might not be best suited for survey type of activities or capturing generic information. For example, if we wanted to check with all associates if they prefer t-shirts or water bottles as swag, or if they can communicate to us about a safety issue.

The Spigit platform works very well for escalating ideas and breaking down internal silos. We had a very positive response from our employees that used the tool.

Spigit is very good to "industrialize" a crowdsourcing campaign in a big company. You can launch a campaign very rapidly.

Spigit is great for working with HUGE crowds and people who can't get together in person. It's also possible, with the right planning and experience, to "blend" digital and analog experiences to create a more robust user experience. There are times when meeting and collaborating without a crowd-sourcing technology in place is the right way to drive innovation. It's important to recognize those situations and not force the use of the technology.

Well suited to an engaged community with a focused challenge to be addressed and where there are good downstream processes to evaluate and progress ideas.
Works less well where just looking for general improvement.

So far it has been very strong for running time-bound challenges. It would not be appropriate for teams not looking to support the program with dedicated resources (at least part of their full time role). There is a desire to use it in other settings in the future; can report back then on whether it is well-suited or not.

Spigit does a great job engaging users and providing a platform that looks and feels like social media. Navigation is intuitive and administrative functions are easy to understand. While reporting was cumbersome at first, we were able to create custom reports that worked very well for our business and provided sponsors with data needed to drive decisions.

Spigit is an extremely valuable crowd sourcing tool. The interactive nature of the tool provides a very good platform for engaging users and encouraging dialogue among the user community. This leads to the development of a cohesive, well considered concept.

As I said, Spigit is a great trigger to share a change of culture when it comes to take part in the improvement and innovation of a company. It may be less appropriate to implement a structured innovation process, from idea to actual project. It is of course more appropriate in a digital ready company, otherwise your "experts" and "key figures" are not as easy to engage.

Spigit is a great basic tool that allows some customization. Capacity for more customization would be great.

Spigit is more suited to companies that create products, but we found it as useful for operation focused companies as well.

I think Spigit is geared towards opening up the site to your entire organization and have open collaboration. Our goals were slightly different and we wanted to start by only allowing 200 users in the company to view and contribute to the site. Because our goals were different than their standard client, there was some struggle around aligning the way they normally do things with our goals, however, they were able to adapt and still make a successful innovation site that worked for us.

If you have a community with more than 100 active users, and you're looking for ideas around operational improvements that can be acted on in a 6-12 month window, Spigit will work great, and it's one of the best options out there. If you're trying to customize the platform much, you should plan on paying Spigit's service group to do that for you, because it's not easy to do yourself. If you're looking for ideas that will take more than about a year to implement, Spigit is as good as anyone else because that's a really tough thing to do in an innovation community!

Spigit is most appropriate for questions that can be solved in many different ways, and don't require a lot of knowledge.

Spigit is well suited when the organization has a innovation model defined or if the organization already has worked in innovation process. If an innovation model does not exist then maybe Spigit will not be used completely.

Since we have used Spigit in all of our departments I believe the tool could help anywhere and everywhere!

I'm only a short time user but from our first challenge; Spigit was easy to use and the overall experience for the user community was outstanding. The results from the challenge were better than expected and larger to do with the ease-of-use. For companies that are geared toward empowering their employees to think outside the box and are allowed to express themselves freely; this is the way to do it. Make something fun for people to share knowledge, ideas and gain recognition.