The InnoCentive Challenge Platform (ICCP) is the first enterprise innovation management system to enable organizations to rapidly engage diverse internal and external innovation communities to help them solve their most pressing problems. The platform is a one-stop shop for open innovation that allows commercial, government, and nonprofit organizations to easily engage the right individuals, communities, and networks to rapidly generate creative new ideas, solve important problems, and innovate faster, more cost effectively, and with less risk than ever before possible.

The cloud-based ICCP is the first and only innovation system-of-record for managing all needs, ideas, problems, Challenges, problem Solver communities, and solutions within organizations of all shapes and sizes. It is the only enterprise-class business application that enables organizations to harness the power of crowds and give everyone a voice – employees, customers, partners, suppliers, and the world’s largest problem solving network that reaches into the millions. And, by incorporating powerful dashboards and analytics, the ICCP provides a complete and integrated view of an organization’s innovation portfolio and strategy.

Our platform offers customers better return-on-investment (ROI) on their innovation spend by providing:

• A Single Enterprise-wide Open Innovation System-of-Record: The ICCP is a scalable and secure cloud-based platform that provides an integrated view of all suggestions, needs, ideas, problems, Challenges, and solutions for improved collaboration, search, reporting and measurement, intellectual property management, and auditing. The platform optimizes the entire Challenge lifecycle – from  idea and suggestion capture and collaboration through Challenge formulation, posting, evaluation, and awards – and enables both InnoCentive-facilitated as well as customer-led management of the end-to-end Challenge process.


• Fit-to-Purpose Ideas and Solutions to Problems: The ICCP enables numerous Challenge types to support a wide array of unique organizational requirements, from general idea gathering and prioritization for marketers seeking to gain insight from customers, to complex technical or scientific problems which if left unaddressed risk to derail an important development effort. Analytical and computational Challenges, Novel Material Challenges, electronic requests for proposal, and high-visibility Grand Challenges provide additional versatility across the organization.


• On-Demand Access to World Class Innovation Capacity: The ICCP provides unprecedented access to innovation talent both inside organizations and to millions of innovators around the world. Organizations have complete control over Challenge distribution to internal, external, and invite-only audiences, including the InnoCentive Global Solver Community which now reaches millions of diverse and skilled problem Solvers. The platform also provides organizations with full control over who suggests ideas and views and attempts to solve their Challenges through its comprehensive multi-channel management and escalation capabilities.

• Enables organizations to pay for solutions, not work or failure, to fundamentally transform their economics of innovation


• Augments and accelerates existing innovation management processes such as PLM, Stage-Gate, and Six Sigma to preserve existing capital and skillset investments (Learn more by downloading our whitepaper on this topic)


• Opens up access to diverse and skilled talent without fixed labor costs, enabling companies to pay only for success in the form of actionable solutions


• Improves collaboration with internal and external people as well as existing knowledge resource systems by harnessing the power and diversity of crowds


• Enables complete control of Challenge distribution channels and target problem Solver audiences to optimally align ideas or problems to the audience(s) most likely to solve them


• Supports enterprise gamification initiatives through world-class contest design and audience engagement mechanisms to drive desired organizational behaviors


• Delivers deep innovation reporting, analytic, and measurement capabilities along with auditing for continuous tracking and improvement