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Ideawake Overview

What is Ideawake?

Shockingly simple idea management platform with a Return on Investment Guarantee. Schedule your demo today and claim your free Innovation Readiness Assessment ($2,500 value). Capture, evaluate, and take action on ideas from employees, customers, or partners.

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Product Description

Ideawake is a grants and awards management software designed to help funding agencies and research institutions in Canada.


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Ideawake
Year Founded
2013
HQ Location
Milwaukee, US
Twitter
@IdeawakeHQ
1,455 Twitter followers
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5 employees on LinkedIn®
Description

Ideawake is an innovation management platform that enables organizations to harness the power of employee ideas and insights. By providing tools for idea submission, collaboration, and evaluation, Ideawake helps businesses streamline their innovation processes, enhance engagement, and drive continuous improvement. Their platform is designed to facilitate a culture of creativity and innovation, allowing companies to transform ideas into actionable strategies for growth. For more information, visit their website at https://ideawake.com.


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Verified UserSmall-Business (50 or fewer emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Easy and effective"
My team has found Ideawake to be an easy to use platform. we've had a significant increase in quality ideas into our innovation pipeline since impl...
Josh R.
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Josh R.Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Just buy the software and move on...it's that good."
Ideawake has been a critial piece of our innovation platform here at UW-Stout. The platform itself is very user friendly and easy to pickup. But, t...
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Verified UserMid-Market (51-1000 emp.)
5.0 out of 5
"Promotes Employee Ideas"
Ideawake doeas a great job of promoting an employess idea program. We were seeking a solution to do exactly that. It's very important to the cutlur...
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Ideawake Media

Ideawake Demo - Collect Targeted Ideas from Your Team, Customers, or Startups
Tap into the public at large for ideas or limit access to your internal team. Embed submission forms directly into your intranet or website.
Ideawake Demo - Collaborate Around and Automatically Surface the Best Ideas
Allow participants to comment on ideas, rank entries using voting, and collaborate in real time.
Ideawake Demo - Assign Decision Makers to Evaluate Ideas on Custom Criteria
Assign internal or external stakeholders to rank solutions and aggregate their opinions into a single score.
Ideawake Demo - Assign Owners, Make Ideas Happen, and Award Submitters
After reviewing and picking the best solutions, award winning entries with cash or non-monetary prizes and assign owners to make ideas happen. Manage implementation in Ideawake or handoff ideas to the project management system of your choosing through our integrations.
Ideawake Demo - Track and Implement Ideas While Measuring the Metrics that Matter
Understand your organizations current innovation health, activity, and impact in under 30 seconds.
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Josh R.
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Business Manager - Business & Financial Services
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What do you like best about Ideawake?

Ideawake has been a critial piece of our innovation platform here at UW-Stout. The platform itself is very user friendly and easy to pickup. But, the staff have really been exceptional to work with. I feel like the folks at Ideawake are part of our campus team with how involved and engaged they have been. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Ideawake?

There have been a few user experience tweaks and reporting changes we would like to see. The folks at Ideawake have been receptive and have been great at listening. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Ideawake solving and how is that benefiting you?

Ideawake is allowing UW-Stout to approach innovation in an accessable, organized, and transparent way. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Marketing and Advertising
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What do you like best about Ideawake?

My team has found Ideawake to be an easy to use platform. we've had a significant increase in quality ideas into our innovation pipeline since implementing it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Ideawake?

Interface could use a bit of modernization, but that said the functionality is intuitive and powerful. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Ideawake solving and how is that benefiting you?

Ideawake has helped us get off of google sheets and into their system which makes manipulating data, ranking ideas, providing feedback, and increasing the quantity of engagement from our employees. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Ideawake?

Ideawake is a tool that can be customised as per the requirements of ideation events.

Ideawake helps to move the ideas as per the workflows created, which helps to understand the movement of the ideas.

Continual support from the Ideawake team whenever needed.

Automation is the most helpful thing to move ideas from one stage to another.

Continual deployment of new features as and when required helps to make the event successful and the tool easy to use.

Custom fields to track the idea implementation as per the campaign requirement.

Easy to navigate through the Ideawake platform without difficulty. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Ideawake?

Technical glitches during the evaluation phases.

Automation is not triggering sometimes.

Report export will have the custom fields of all the campaigns, which should be campaign-specific. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Ideawake solving and how is that benefiting you?

Ideawake is solving all the business problems by getting ideas from the participants.

Ideawake makes the process easier to conduct ideation events with the help of customisation.

Ideawake helps track the ideas across the workflow stages.

It is easy to navigate from one event to another.

Even after completing the event, the ideas can be viewed and reviewed if required for any other process.

Ideawake helps track employee engagement.

Ideawake helps to convert the data into useful graphic representations through analytics. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Ideawake?

Their customer service is unmatched the implementation was much easier than expected. Overall their platform is easy to use but still has all the features my team needs. It also integrated well with the other software we use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Ideawake?

There honestly isn't too much I don't like. If I had to pick something it would be that at first glance the software has a lot of different features which can feel overwhelming at first. But the implementation team walked us through everything step by step so I understood it much better after we went through the onboarding process. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Ideawake solving and how is that benefiting you?

My team members are will verbalize new ideas but we had no way to gather them and also track where they were in the process of being implemented. Ideawake helps us capture new ideas and then helps us put them into action. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Hospital & Health Care
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Mid-Market(51-1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Ideawake?

Ideawake doeas a great job of promoting an employess idea program. We were seeking a solution to do exactly that. It's very important to the cutlure of our organization that we get ideas and solutions to everyday probelms directly from people doing the work. IdeaWake makes it incredibly easy for us to get ideas, track them, and build recognition programs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Ideawake?

There is nothing that I dislike about this program. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Ideawake solving and how is that benefiting you?

They are helping us solve a probelm that we had with building a program to promote employee ideas and employee problem-solving. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Ideawake?

I found ideawake very easy to use when creating a project plan and was efficient in saving time where the template was ready to be completed.

Any requests that was offered by myself, was actioned and implenmented in short time. Great team and resource on any ideas that was given to enhance the experience. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Ideawake?

I do not have anything to say in this area, Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Ideawake solving and how is that benefiting you?

For my role, I manage multiple sites and Ideawake was a centralized location to storage all of the projects from the various sites. Ideawake can roll up all projects in the reporting to report the outcomes metrics combined. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Verified User in Health, Wellness and Fitness
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What do you like best about Ideawake?

The most significant piece that our team likes about Ideawake is its high degree of customization (supported on very tight turnaround times by its product team), that enables very targeted idea challenges so staff know what to expect of the experience and what to expect as outcomes for their interaction and ideas. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Ideawake?

Ideawake is rapidly improving. So there are some minor features that will be very useful for large scale idea management that are getting built in every day. That said, we have already asked for several features that were implemented within days and others that are in the works for the near term. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Ideawake solving and how is that benefiting you?

How do you source ideas from a large organization, prioritize them, all while setting expectations of those interacting with the idea management system. Ideawake is able to do this very well. The team helped us set up a general challenge right away (took less than a day), and are coaching us through how to setup a very targeted challenge and socialization of that challenge through our health system. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Ideawake?

Ideawake is EASY to navigate. The tool is broken up into 4 simple system roles with different privileges across those roles. When it comes to idea management, it has the right objects in place to take an idea from submission to execution. We used Ideawake to support a pretty large and well-established innovation lab at an enterprise-sized government agency. They had a robust process and Ideawake was able to help support/replicate it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Ideawake?

While configuration activities are simple to conduct by someone new to the system, its simplicity can sometimes come at the cost of full-on customization. We had to make some compromises in how we stood up the system to make sure it mimicked our existing idea management process correctly. Additionally, we have found multiple bugs throughout the system. Nothing that is detrimental to our operation or use of the system, but more so with cosmetics and buttons not working / things not showing up on users' screens. The Ideawake team is very responsive and quick to get developers to look into these bugs though. I suppose these are paint points of a younger software company with a newer tool on the market. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Ideawake solving and how is that benefiting you?

Ideawake provides end-to-end idea management for what otherwise would be a pretty manual process using PPTs and Excel Sheets. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Ideawake?

Ideawake is awesome to share ideas and wins. The ease of use allows associates to interact and share their ideas. Sharing ideas couldnt be easier and the engagement for the team has been very positive. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Ideawake?

Not much tio share here, the reporting by associate could be easier to navigate and provide more data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Ideawake solving and how is that benefiting you?

Ideawake creates on central location for asscaoites to see and interact wioth ideas and improvments. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Jaden S.
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Project Manager
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What do you like best about Ideawake?

The customer service our rep has been able to provide for us has been invaluable. Hanna is great and is always quick to answer questions with very insightful videos, as well as push any larger issues to her team for timely and affective solutions Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Ideawake?

There have been a few random capabilities that we as a company, waned to be able to do right out of the gate that we have not been able to do. But it seems like we are the only ones asking for these specific requests, and Hanna has already pushed these requests to her development team, an they are working on a solution for us. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Ideawake solving and how is that benefiting you?

We have begun using Ideawake to allow for thoughts and ideas to come from anywhere in the company, and not just from the top down approach like some other companies do. This has already brought to light some very needed things that we as a company can and will be addressing Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.