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What do you like best about Sideways 6?

The ability to track and manage work and interact and use it to prioritise with colleagues. Also the ability to use comms notifications to keep idea submitters updated quickly and easily. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Sideways 6?

Not all the functionalityt/capabilities are intuitive and I don't always have time to spend trying stuff out. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Sideways 6 solving and how is that benefiting you?

Finding digital data solutions for business stakeholders who have largely silo-ed processes or mechanisms for doing their day job. It allows me to assess individual ideas consistently against a standard data set and prioritise accordingly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from caroline schreiber of Sideways 6

Thank you so much for your feedback! We are committed to making all our functionalities intuitive so this is really useful feedback that will be passed on to our product teams. Thanks again

Sideways 6 Overview

What is Sideways 6?

"A no-brainer for employee idea crowdsourcing platform." Jan 2023 Engage your people, improve your organisation and build a culture of Innovation quickly and simply, on Microsoft Teams, your Interact Intranet and more At Sideways 6, we understand the importance of engaging your employees to achieve business goals through ideas. But running ideas programs at scale can easily become unwieldy and difficult to execute with impact. That's why we've developed a solution that revolutionizes the way companies share, manage, and review employee ideas to drive business goals through a culture that puts employees at its core. Our software makes it easy for companies to share and organize employee ideas in the tools your employees use every day, ensuring that no great idea goes unnoticed. With automated and customizable tools, communications, tracking, voting, and reviewing, our platform allows companies to quickly and easily assess the potential of each idea and make informed decisions for maximum impact whilst engaging employees. Companies that use Sideways 6 manage ideas 3 times quicker, spend 4 times less time updating employees, see 78% more engagement and ideas and implement ideas that make a tangible different to the bottom line. By using Sideways 6, businesses experience a significant increase in resource efficiency (>$60M saved by Balfour Beatty), productivity (Nestlé ideated 155 new products to take to market), and engagement (16% increase employee engagement at DXC Technology). By leveraging the power employees' ideas, Sideways 6 can help your company reach new heights of success. Find out why the likes of Rio Tinto, Nestlé, Vodafone and Marks and Spencer trust the Sideways 6 approach at www.sideways6.com.

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Product Description

Integrated crowdsourcing and idea management

How do you position yourself against your competitors?

Rather than setting up a new portal for employee idea submissions, we allow you to pull ideas in from anywhere in your business intuitively and easily. Why go through the change management headache of sending thousands of employees to something that is only used for idea submissions when you can run your crowdsourcing campaigns through Microsoft Teams, Interact Intranet or any of your existing employee social networks?

Only a fraction of your employees actually need access to the idea management system. Sideways 6 provides a fully-featured toolbox for reviewing and filtering ideas to administrators and moderators, whilst keeping the process as simple as possible for employees.


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2014
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Sideways 6 is a company that specializes in employee engagement and innovation management solutions. Their platform enables organizations to harness the ideas and insights of their employees, fostering a culture of collaboration and creativity. By providing tools for idea submission, feedback, and recognition, Sideways 6 helps businesses drive innovation and improve overall performance. For more information, visit their website at https://www.sideways6.com.


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Recent Sideways 6 Reviews

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Yvette F.Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"We've tried the others, but the platform and supporting team are by far the best!"
From the outset, the team at S6 have been invested in our journey and need - collaborating to ensure we get maximum value about outcome from the S6...
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Michael C.Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
4.5 out of 5
"Sideways 6 used for Transmission Ideas in SSEN"
The customer support! Holding interactive sessions and being involoved in our process and metric rework. Easy to use and perfectly integarted
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A H.Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)
4.0 out of 5
"SSE Transmission working with Sideways 6"
Simple, streamlined experience, user friendly and customizable via automations etc. Excellent customer support, friendly and knowledgeable.
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Sideways 6 Media

Sideways 6 Demo - Step 1 | Capture ideas
Employees share ideas on the tools they use every day like Microsoft Teams, Yammer or Workplace from Meta.
Sideways 6 Demo - Step 2 I Engage Employees
Employee feel they have an impact and say in the company's overall direction.
Sideways 6 Demo - Step 3 | Manage ideas
Ideas feed into the Sideways 6 idea management platform to be developed, shortlisted and reviewed.
Sideways 6 Demo - Step 4 | Shortlist ideas
Customisable and automated shortlisting of the best ideas to be implemented and celebrated.
Sideways 6 Demo - Our clients and our mission
Since 2014, Sideways 6's mission has been to help companies change the world for the better by bringing employee ideas to life.
Sideways 6 Demo - Our product in the tools your employees use every day
Integrating seamlessly with Microsoft Teams, Interact Intranets and many more guarantees the highest level of adoption.
Sideways 6 helps you listen to ideas from the people who know your business best of all, your employees.

Maybe these ideas will change your business, maybe they'll change the world.
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Sideways 6 helps you listen to ideas from the people who know your business best of all, your employees. Maybe these ideas will change your business, maybe they'll change the world.
Introducing Similar Idea AI - making your idea submission even more efficient by automatically identifying similar ideas already submitted.
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Introducing Similar Idea AI - making your idea submission even more efficient by automatically identifying similar ideas already submitted.
We often get asked what makes Sideways 6 a great company to work with. We decided to let our customers do the talking for us…

Find out how Sideways 6 helps bring employee ideas to life at www.Sideways6.com
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We often get asked what makes Sideways 6 a great company to work with. We decided to let our customers do the talking for us… Find out how Sideways 6 helps bring employee ideas to life at www.Sideways6.com
Already using Microsoft Teams? The Sideways 6 employee ideas app makes it easy to collect, manage, and act on employee ideas—right where your team already works. No new tools required!
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Already using Microsoft Teams? The Sideways 6 employee ideas app makes it easy to collect, manage, and act on employee ideas—right where your team already works. No new tools required!

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38 out of 39 Total Reviews for Sideways 6

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What do you like best about Sideways 6?

From the outset, the team at S6 have been invested in our journey and need - collaborating to ensure we get maximum value about outcome from the S6 platform.

We love the integration with Teams and ease of use, both as a front end user for submitting an Idea, but the a backend as an Administrator of the pipeline.

We've largely been able to customise the forms, flow and user experience to meet our diverse business needs, and periodically work with S6 to ensure we have an effective tool to support our cultural and performance objectives. They're always eager to collaborate and understand how they can evolve and adapt the tool to drive value and engagement. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Sideways 6?

Not much...

There have been some limitations in the ease of search in the pipeline of submissions, which as we migrated a significant volume of submissions from prior platforms, has made for a slightly poorer UX.

The back end is a little "onerous" for an infrequent user / administrator of the pipeline (part of our model to have decentralised Champions manage their bucket of work), but a small challenge to navigate.

We'd love to have our hands on our engagement data (our core success measure) a bit more real-time/self-led, but the team are always timely and generous with sharing this data to support our monthly reporting, so again, a manageable "issue". Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Sideways 6 solving and how is that benefiting you?

S6 is helping support our cultural value - that we are a customer obsessed organisation, and that when you (a staff member) see a substandard experience - you can elevate it quickly and easily.

Our platfrom is supported by a network of decentralised cross-functional Champions who investigate, prioritise and deliver on improvements to eliminate these poor employee or member experiences.

As the centralised owner of the Platform and cultral proof point of our commitment and tangible delivery of improvements that deliver increase CSat or EX, Sideways 6 provides us;

- an engaging, easy to use, all employee - always on platform for our staff who work across multiple locations and 24/7, to share their ideas or things that are stopping us succeeding.

- an effective back end pipeline management to administer the buckets of work, progress, cadence and outcomes - with automation, features and report (far above other products we've used) that allows us to provide Executive confidence that we're delivering our our customer obsessed commitments and employee promise. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Sideways 6?

I like that I can export data into excel and easily change the values I do or don't want to see, as well as saving multiple different views for different purposes. This is really useful for creating different reports and checking different facts quickly Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Sideways 6?

Within each idea, it is a bit harder to search or filter for specific information Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Sideways 6 solving and how is that benefiting you?

Sideways 6 collates all ideas into one place and provides multiple ways of filtering those, to view them by date, stages, submitter, etc. Sideways 6 makes it so much easier to create reports and data sets from a mix of qualitative and quantative data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from caroline schreiber of Sideways 6

Thank you for this feedback, it's very useful and we'll pass that on to our product team.

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What do you like best about Sideways 6?

Sideways6's seamless integration with Microsoft Teams was a key factor in the selection process. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Sideways 6?

I have been very pleased with Sideways6's response to customer feedback and its transparency of future enhancements and functionality. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Sideways 6 solving and how is that benefiting you?

The Sideways6 platform enables every colleague to impact T&F by suggesting ideas that we test, trial, and ultimately use to advance and grow our business. One of the most critical drivers of innovation within our organization is our people, and there is no shortage of new, creative, and unique ideas throughout Advanced Learning. Sideways6 enables T&F to meet this critical business initiative. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from caroline schreiber of Sideways 6

Thank you so much for these great insights and we're delighted that T&F is getting value from our product. As always, don't hesitate to let us know if there's anything else we can do to improve it.

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What do you like best about Sideways 6?

There is best view for the Analytics report, where the campaigns gives us te clear cut information and the Dashboard view is Awsome and it is user friendly interface.

And Support team they are very quick to help and resolve my problem. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Sideways 6?

when ever in Run the power automate flow it is run fine, when ever the interface changes it is making hard to run the flow.

I need to go back to flow and change the co-ordinates as per the interface changes.

and genreal pop-ups makes my flow to fails. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Sideways 6 solving and how is that benefiting you?

N/A Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from caroline schreiber of Sideways 6

Thank you so much for your feedback - really helpful - we'll look into disrupting flows to a minimum and are taking this very much on board.

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What do you like best about Sideways 6?

I must say that the live assistance has been incredibly helpful in quickly resolving any doubts I may have, and the tool's ability to track projects and consolidate reviews in one place saves me valuable time and allows me to focus more effectively. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Sideways 6?

I believe the way the tool looks regarding the brand could be enhanced Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Sideways 6 solving and how is that benefiting you?

The tool is helping me engage employees and improve communication, and the expert review feature is interesting as it allows us to prioritize and stay informed about each idea. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from caroline schreiber of Sideways 6

Thank you for your positive feedback about our live assistance and project tracking capabilities. We understand your concern about the tool's appearance and will take that into account for future enhancements. We're glad to hear that the tool is helping you engage employees and prioritize ideas.

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What do you like best about Sideways 6?

The customer support! Holding interactive sessions and being involoved in our process and metric rework. Easy to use and perfectly integarted Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Sideways 6?

Nothing, mayber the fact there is no time dependant automation in their system yet Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Sideways 6 solving and how is that benefiting you?

Creating a company wide idea collection scheme Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from caroline schreiber of Sideways 6

Thank you for this great feedback! We'll pass on your comments to our customer support superstars!

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What do you like best about Sideways 6?

Easy to use, easy to manage ideas in an organized way, features like flags and statuses available to mark different phases of the ideas. Space available to post updates on the ideas. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Sideways 6?

There is no way to share updates on the ideas with the ideas submitter via sideways6. Also, no way to book a meeting with the idea submitter to discuss the progress of ideas. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Sideways 6 solving and how is that benefiting you?

Ability to have the ideas in one place and the feature to manage these ideas in one place has made the entire process very lean. This has reduced the effort to manually make the sheets and therefore saves a lot of time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from caroline schreiber of Sideways 6

Hi there. Thank you so much for your feedback. We're delighted you're finding the product easy to use.

On your point about sharing update, please let us know what you mean and need to do (feel free to speak directly to your CSM) otherwise did you know that we have a few ways to share updates:

Automatically. it is possible to create automations to send a Teams private message or email for each stage/status change.

Manually: for each idea, it is possible to send an email, teams private message, teams comment or idea progress update.

Does this solve your issue?

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What do you like best about Sideways 6?

The comprehensiveness of the platform allows me as an idea manager to track the entire journey of a project. The interface is largely user-friendly, allowing for easy monitoring of data, and pulls in information from the Ignite platform seamlessly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Sideways 6?

Filtering options could be improved on the platform which would be helpful where we have multiple ideas managers, or several ideas at various stages. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Sideways 6 solving and how is that benefiting you?

Sideways 6 gives a centralised repository of ideas, allowing us to move away from Excel spreadsheets and manual tracking and recording of ideas. The steps of idea generation and management have become more transparent between managers and has helped save time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from caroline schreiber of Sideways 6

Thank you so much for your feedback. That's extremely useful.

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What do you like best about Sideways 6?

Integration with Teams, customer service, and continuous improvements that are made. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Sideways 6?

I was not a big fan of the backend platform but since the update it has become more user-friendly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Sideways 6 solving and how is that benefiting you?

Capturing ideas to advance buisness from all levels of the organisation, breaking down silos. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from caroline schreiber of Sideways 6

Thank you so much for your feedback Aafreen, glad you're finding the new backend interface better. Don't hesitate to share your thoughts with our CSMs - we want to make sure we're always delivering the best experience for our customers (especially star customers like T&F :) )

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What do you like best about Sideways 6?

Sideways 6 has been hepful as it uses bookmark tabs to guide you through the website. It is very easy to navigate and organise your work through Sideways 6. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Sideways 6?

The dashboard tab in sideways 6 that generates graphs can be difficult to use, however, once explained this becomes more understandable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Sideways 6 solving and how is that benefiting you?

Sideways 6 gives us a platform to organise and plan idea management in an easy way allowing us to deliver ideas that have a positive impact across the company. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Response from caroline schreiber of Sideways 6

Great! thank you for this feedback. We'll look into making it more intuitive but good to hear you get useful usage.