Allows Room for Scalability
Managing All Of Your Projects In One Place
Put simply, the scalability of a platform is its ability to manage all of your projects in one place. This scalability can cover changes in size, complexity, control, or its scope.
If you use an innovation management platform in one business unit, could it be upscaled and used across your entire organization? If you use it for one identified issue, can this be expanded to run a number of Challenges in parallel? Platforms that are worth investing in will allow you to involve members from across your entire business and run as many Challenges as you need, all from one overview.
Platforms that have the security and bandwidth to invite many more members or run more Challenges at once will be more useful in the long term than any without these features. This corresponds to the first question we asked in this Guide: ‘Does the Innovation Management Platform have a track record of success across multiple use cases?’ If the platform can solve problems and explore opportunities in different areas of your business at the same time, then it’s inherently scalable.
It is important that any platform be a value-add to your business, including through being well-matched to your existing ways of working. Platforms with integrations to corporate messaging channels (like Slack or Teams) or project systems (like Monday) will see a higher rate of uptake and users will find it becomes a natural part of their workday. Innovation management platforms should allow you to cover every part of your innovation project in one place. The control that these platforms provide means that you can adapt and expand your innovation activities.
The flexibility of the platform is one of its key benefits as well as the ability to scale up engagement without any limits.