Information Incubator of the Innovation Ideas" (4I system)

The 4I system ("Information Incubator of the Innovation Ideas") is management of the ideas, offers, innovations.  Allows to increase efficiency of use of the major resource of the company – intelligence of her employees.

"Information Incubator of the Innovation Ideas" (4I system) is:

• intellectual environment for collecting and processing of the innovation ideas
• management system for the ideas (Idea Management System)
• the first step to building of an innovation management system in the company (SUPRIN)

The 4I system is the automated system providing:

• creation of conditions for formation of a permanent flow of the ideas,
• decrease in labor costs on collecting and initial processing of the ideas,
• identification of perspective employees,
• formation of additional sources of capitalization of the enterprise at the expense of intangible assets.

Scopes of the 4I system

• rationalization and inventive activity,
• management of the ideas (idea management);
• lean production, Lean-technologies, kaizen,
• business process optimization,
• increase in production efficiency and management,
• open innovations (open innovation),
• collecting and processing of projects in business incubators and technoparks,
• tenders of the ideas of staff of the company, clients and consumers.

Main functionality of the 4I system

• Placement of requests of the management of the enterprise for the solution of current problems.
• Collecting of the proposals of employees submitted as on demand, and in an initiative order.
• The automated calculation of parameter values of the offer: "Suitability" for the company, Feasibility and Profitability of implementation of the offer.
• Collective discussion of offers and calculation of the Importance parameter of the offer.
• Support of examination of offers (mailing of tasks to experts, preparation and collecting of the conclusions, control of an adherence to deadlines).
• Formation of rating and selection of offers for implementation.
• Monitoring of the course of consideration of the offer and informing authors on results of passing of stages.
• Ensuring access of employees to the register of offers using searching tools and filtering by different parameters.

Results of system implementation "4I"

Increase in system effectiveness of company management

• Condition monitoring of the company and advance identification of dangerous trends
• Support of acceptance of reasoned decisions
• Personification of actions in a system
• Information for improvement of incentive systems of employees

Receiving permanent flow of offers on different tasks (directions)

• Distribution to the companies of the best practices and best practices
• Improvement and optimization of the existing business processes, products and service
• New product development, search of new niches

Identification of perspective employees for formation of a talent pool

• Having additional competences
• Capable to execute roles of experts and consultants
• The leaders having makings

Obtaining synergy effect of use of opportunities of social and network technologies

• Detection of the relevant ideas
• Identification of not expressed knowledge of employees
• Knowledge sharing, experience and ideas
• Detection of the duplicated offers
• Co-authorship of employees from territorially remote offices

Creation of the environment of the generation of the ideas involving employees in process

• Creation of conditions for formation of the collectives directed to solving of tasks
• Increase in loyalty of staff of the company

Decrease in losses

• Increase in efficiency of use of intellectual potential of employees (decrease in the eighth type of losses)
• Elimination of unproductive losses
• Cutting of costs for collecting and initial processing of the ideas
• Implementation of creative potential of personnel