Innovation Central

Innovation Central is the innovation management platform from Planbox. It supports an organisation's full portfolio of ideas, from first suggestion to commercial result, and is aimed at programmes that need to scale.

What Innovation Central offers

• Campaign planning — sets up themed calls for ideas.
• Ideation and collaboration — lets an innovation community submit and refine ideas together.
• Evaluation — helps teams assess which ideas to pursue.
• Collaborative canvases — shared boards that update in real time.
• Configurable workflow — an engine adjustable to each organisation's process.

Who it works with

Larger enterprises running continuous innovation programmes. Electrolux Professional is quoted as a user, and Forrester covered the vendor in a 2020 platform report.

Key facts

• Vendor: Planbox
• Category: innovation software