Why Wazoku?
7 Reasons Wazoku Excels in the Innovation Management Market
This final section will break down seven essential factors that set Wazoku apart as a leading innovation management solution in the market today:
Challenge Driven Innovation®
Challenge Framing
Customer Success and Best Practices
Scalable and Configurable Platform
Advanced Analytics
Security
Interoperability
Using existing pain points or problems, the next step is to craft Challenges that are then released to a crowd – this could be internal (employees), co-creation with your suppliers or customers, or open which is then released to a crowd of problem solvers outside your existing business network.
Once the solutions to this Challenge are submitted by whichever crowd has been chosen, the next task is to review, select, and integrate these solutions, developing them so that they solve the initial problem and continue to drive benefits for your organization.
When it comes to Challenge Framing, there are a couple of questions that you need to solve to be certain to get the best results from your Challenge. Firstly, what is the problem you are trying to solve? It sounds fairly obvious, but across more than 20 years of experience at the front of the innovation space, we can honestly say that one of the key reasons why Challenges fail, and innovation delivers sub-par results is because the correct problem hasn’t been identified.
Supported by innovation thought leaders, including Steven Shapiro and Thomas Wedell-Wedellsborg, Wazoku's dedicated team will ensure that you can frame Challenges in a way that gives them the best chance of success. Ensuring that you're asking the right question is so important, and we have an extensive history of enabling our clients to do just that.
Our Customer Success Team are all trained in innovation best practices, drawing on Wazoku’s wealth of experience and knowledge as well as having completed the Oxford University Strategic Innovation Course. The impact of this knowledge can be felt across all of our successes, including Waitrose, AVIVA, Old Mutual, and The Geneva Learning Foundation.
The Wazoku platform enables you to showcase key Challenges to a crowd of your choice. Our system is highly configurable enabling you to utilize the imagery and branding that you wish. Our internal platform sits behind SSO and is accessible via the web browser, mobile browser, mobile app and directly through Microsoft Teams.
Wazoku has an experienced team behind it which is what gives it the vast, intuitive and evolving capability, with solid support.
Access real-time reporting on engagement, dashboards for ROI, and measure against your company’s KPIs with performance and activity data that works for you. Advanced Analytics delivers:
Configurable Reporting: we enable your ability to both report on the activity within your platform and display performance against your organization’s KPIs.
Templated Dashboards: quickly showcase success with pre-produced templates which guide you as you get up and running.
Data that matures with you: you can also build your own dashboards, meaning that you can report on increasingly unique impact metrics, defined by your company’s needs at any given time.
Three years ago, we redoubled our focus on security practices within the organization, leading to a commitment to view security as a key aspect of business differentiation.
Building on prior experience with Cyber Essentials, the company obtained additional accreditations, such as ISO 27001, to establish robust data and security processes.
Notably, the implementation of the Wazoku Bug Bounty program, initiated 18 months ago, invited external individuals to test the platform for vulnerabilities. The program proved successful in locating and addressing security issues, requiring significant effort to gain support from stakeholders for its setup.
A distinct feature of the company's approach is running the Bug Bounty program through its own platform, emphasizing the platform's capability to support such operations without relying on external suppliers or email communication.
The recent annual Penetration Test revealed no 'high' or 'critical' issues across the platform, showcasing the effectiveness of the organization's security efforts.
The commitment to comprehensive security measures, including accreditation, bug bounty programs, and penetration testing, reflects a proactive stance in maintaining high security standards, with ongoing efforts to analyze the data from the Bug Bounty for future security improvements.
The Wazoku platform stands out in the realm of enterprise software due to its exceptional focus on interoperability.
Interoperability, in a software context, refers to the ability of different systems or software applications to seamlessly communicate and exchange data with one another.
Wazoku has been structured with interoperability in mind, making it particularly well-suited for integration into the complex ecosystems of enterprise-level businesses. Its architecture facilitates smooth collaboration and data exchange with existing tools, applications, and programs commonly employed by large organizations.
This adaptability not only simplifies the onboarding process but also enhances the overall efficiency and effectiveness of the organization's innovation and collaboration initiatives.