IdeaBase Features

Better Solutions

IdeaBase guides your team through a proven cognitive creative problem solving method. Everyone’s experience, knowledge and insights are leveraged to generate better solutions.

Collaborate With Anyone

Collaborate with anyone to generate better on-target solutions.  No per collaborator charge.

Suggestion Box

Activate IdeaBase Suggestion Boxes for different audiences like employees, customers, students, vendors, etc.  Only pay when you use a suggestion box. Turn them on or off with one mouse click.

Crowd Source

Get ideas for a specific problem or opportunity from anyone in the world, even if they don’t subscribe to IdeaBase. Free.

Implement Solutions Faster

Everyone has a voice which makes buy-in to solutions deeper and faster.

Builds Team Morale

Get input from the most reserved to the most outgoing.  Those who don’t feel creative can learn cognitive creative thinking skills by viewing our included video training course Generating Ideas – Creativity For Everyone.

IdeaBase Sessions

  • Brainstorm anywhere - anytime
  • Unlimited Free Participants
  • Contribute when inspiration strikes
  • Discontiue and restart sessons. Data is stored.
  • Easy to customize for the way you work
  • Get detailed session reports
  • Includes creativity skills training videos
  • Upload files and links to aggregate information in one place
  • $49 for a 30 day session.
  • Crowdsource ideas from anyone

Suggestion Boxes

  • Unlimited suggestion boxes
  • Create suggestion boxes for each audience
  • Centralized idea, problem/opportunity storage
  • Detailed reporting
  • Includes creativity skills training videos
  • $49 per suggestion box per 30 days
  • Deactiviate any time - data is saved.
  • Unlimited Suggestions

How IdeaBase Sessions Work

Cognitive Creativity

IdeaBase sessions are for serious idea generation.  It’s cognitive creative problem solving, not mind mapping, aimless daydreaming, or random idea collection. Build on each other’s insights, knowledge and ideas to develop lists used to provoke out-of-the-box thinking. Use creativity tools to provoke more ideas.

Break Down The Problem/Opportunity

Define and describe different aspects from the perspective of each collaborator. Use the definition and description as stimulus to provoke out-of-the-box thinking. Create a fact base for everyone on the team by loading documents, photos, videos and links.

Use Powerful Creativity Tools

Use 3 simple, yet powerful creativity tools to further provoke out-of-the-box thinking. Principles, Analogies and What If Questions.

Capture & Refine Ideas

Ideas that quickly come to mind and ideas from a deliberate thought-provoking process. Rate ideas and refine the best ideas with additional information and documentation.

Effective

IdeaBase Uses

100%
Product & Service Development
100%
Process Improvement
100%
Business Deployment
100%
Strategy and Plans

How IdeaBase
Was Developed

IdeaBase | Problem Solving with Creativity

"The objective was to develop a practical, yet powerful tool that would enable everyone to generate better on-target ideas."

Scott Barlass, Co-Founder of The Axiom Group, drew upon his hands-on product development and consulting experiences to develop IdeaBase.  He wanted an effective tool that he would use.

Product development musts included:

  • A cognitive creative method – serious creativity
  • Collaborate with anyone, anytime inspiration strikes
  • An equal voice for those most reserved to those most outgoing
  • Easy to learn and use, even when extremely busy
  • Include cognitive creative idea generation skills training

During his corporate career, Scott guided the development of over 600 new products across companies as diverse as Toro, P&G, Newell and Rubbermaid. His management span includes nearly every functional area – marketing, industrial design, sales, advertising, merchandising, graphic design, financial control, and engineering.

Scott as Co-Founder of The Axiom Group helps Fortune 500 companies think innovatively about new products & services and processes.  Client experience includes General Mills, 3M, Sherwin Williams, Westlaw, Mattel and hundreds more.

IdeaBase | Problem Solving with Creativity

FEATURES

  • IdeaBase Problem Solving Sessions – Free Participants
  • Record your ideas and problems/opportunities - Free
  • Multiple Users In Same Account
  • Customize Information Labels
  • Customize Session Templates
  • Customize Logo
  • Suggestion Boxes – Unlimited suggestions
  • 30-day price per Suggestion Box or IdeaBase session

IdeaBase Suggestion Box

IdeaBase Team

IdeaBase Individual