InnoCentive is a Challenge-Driven organization. Everything we do revolves around helping our customers to generate meaningful and actionable ideas, solve problems and Challenges that matter most to their organizations, and innovate faster and better than ever before.

What Are Challenges & How Do They Work?

A Challenge is a well-formed problem whose solution has value to an organization. Challenges come in a variety of forms, from pure ideation – a broad question formulated to obtain access to new ideas – to those that require more rigor (e.g., the physical attributes of a disease biomarker or material). By definition, Challenges are specific, detailed, and actionable. Via rigorous methodology, Challenges are formulated, prioritized, posted to an audience/channel, tracked, and the resultant solutions evaluated and awarded. Depending on the channel selected, proper management of intellectual property (IP) is an essential component of the Challenge process.

Configured to Your Needs

Depending on your needs, we can help you formulate and post a single Challenge or work with you to transform your entire innovation process via our proven Challenge platform tools and methodology.  

If you have a very specific problem and would like to post a single Challenge, our innovation experts can offer you a complimentary 30-minute problem assessment designed to help you find solutions quickly. Call 1-855-CROWDNOW or contact us online to get started.

 

The InnoCentive Challenge Process

 

Challenges may be configured by our customers for specific channels, defined by the nature of the "crowd" or audience to which the problem is addressed. These channels include:

• Internal Challenges that reach all employees or select groups of employees


• Invitational Challenges that reach select groups of partners, suppliers, retirees/alumni, or customers


• External Challenges that reach open and public communities of problem solvers, including InnoCentive's Global Solver Community and our syndicated partner channels which together provide reach to millions of diverse and creative minds across the globe

InnoCentive’s enterprise innovation management system, the InnoCentive Challenge Platform, is the mechanism through which needs, ideas, and problems are identified, Challenges are developed, channels are managed, solutions are evaluated, and insights via analytics are gleaned. This platform supports a wide range of Challenge types to meet your unique requirements.