Ideawake Press Kit

Ideawake helps companies transform employee ideas into repeatable growth with an easy to use idea management platform combined with end to end consulting services.

Company Overview

Ideawake provides an easy to use idea management platform combined with programs, services, and expertise that supports an organizations innovation or continuous improvement program from idea collection to measured results.

Companies choose Ideawake over internal tools like Microsoft Forms, Teams, or Slack due to our ability to engage a higher percentage of the workforce and automating much of the manual workflow around evaluation of ideas while providing personalized communication at scale to submitters.

On average, our software doubles the ROI an organization is achieving from crowdsourcing the ideas of employees, customers, and partners while cutting the time it takes to manage ideas in half. Here are the primary ways customers leverage the Ideawake platform.

Employee Suggestion Programs
Innovation Challenges
Continuous Improvement
Open Innovation
Hackathons and Shark Tanks
Portfolio Management

Who We Work With

Ideawake is trusted by 100 employee startups to leading Fortune 500 companies to enable a culture of innovation, drive financial results, and increase employee engagement at scale. Our industry leading idea management platform powers innovation programs in 39 countries and over 185 cities across 17 different verticals. Customers like SiriusXM, Epson, and HP use Ideawake cost-effectively to discover more solutions, prioritize the best ones faster, and transform more of them into impact.

Ideawake in the Press

Innovating from Within: Ideawake’s Role in Enhancing Employee Engagement and Operational Excellence at Jason's Deli

Ideawake was recently featured alongside one of our customers Jason's Deli in USA Today in a story we thought would resonate with many of you in the Ideawake community. You can check out the story here

Ideawake helps established corporations tap their employees' innovative, creative thinking

In Coby Skonord's world, a startup company is like a speedboat. A Fortune 500 company is a cruise ship. Each has its advantages: Speedboats are fast and nimble. Cruise ships are packed with amenities, well-trained workforces and lots of customers. Each ought to be able to learn from the other.

Aurora invests in Milwaukee startup's technology to scale employee ideas

Milwaukee-based software company Ideawake has raised another $1 million to expand its innovation-enabling platform into the health care field. The round was led by Madison's HealthX Ventures.

NSSF, Ideawake to support Ugandan innovators

The National Social Security Fund (NSSF) has announced a partnership with Ideawake, a global innovation software company, to expand access to the NSSF Hi-Innovator programme to more entrepreneurs across the country.

Creative Problem Solving Through Ideawake

The most difficult challenge facing most companies today is the critical necessity to stay abreast of the latest technological innovations that can disrupt the market need for their product or service. In order to overcome this challenge, companies are turning to their employees, customers and other stakeholders to come up with a wider breadth of novel solutions to complex business problems.

Ideawake Gives Employees a Voice

As a company grows to employ hundreds, and even thousands of people, it becomes continually harder for frontline employees’ ideas to reach management. This disconnect can become frustrating and lead to employees becoming disengaged which, in some companies, affects 50% of employees and can cost $2,200 per disengaged employee per year according to a study conducted by ADP.