Planbox Acquires IdeaConnection, the Best-in-Class Open Innovation Expert Solver Network
Planbox customers can now tap into a global solver network of highly skilled experts to develop innovative solutions for their most complex and pressing business challenges
Planbox, a pioneer in cloud-based AI-powered agile innovation management platforms, announced that it has acquired IdeaConnection, an open innovation platform and marketplace. This is the fourth acquisition for Planbox since 2015 as it continues to develop and lead with the most comprehensive agile innovation management solution in the market. Planbox, which recently received the highest scores in strategy and current offering in The Forrester Wave™: Innovation Management Platforms, Q1 2020, will now further extend and distinguish its solution by including IdeaConnection’s open innovation platform and highly skilled, vast and far-reaching expert problem-solver network in its Agile Innovation Suite offering.
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“The world is facing unprecedented social, technological and global disruption which has caused massive turbulence and great challenges across all sectors. Companies face pressing demands for solutions to complex problems. We give businesses access to the world’s most creative and innovative minds who work collaboratively to solve problems and develop innovations,” said Scott Wurtele, CEO of IdeaConnection. “Our motto is multidisciplinary teams solve problems.”
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IdeaConnection has a long-standing record as a trusted open innovation partner for some of the world’s most recognized brands with a reputation for running completely confidential challenges with pre-screened candidates under NDA. Hand-picked teams of diverse experts are selected to develop innovative solutions and alleviate the burden on the client who has to choose from a select number of proposed solutions. This unique confidential challenge service provides the perfect platform for solving critical path problems quickly by de-risking a part of the discovery and research stages of problem-solving and new innovation activities.
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