Planbox is leading the future-fit train.

Wilmington, Delaware — Planbox, the pioneering agile innovation management platform, experienced record breaking results in 2022. The mandate for innovation management significantly increased this past year, resulting in the highest number of new clients and existing client expansions in the company’s history as business leaders turn to Planbox to develop a future-fit practice across their enterprise.

“Although the pandemic has ended, it has since created a uniquely challenging business environment that is forcing companies to hop back into the innovation game. They are now faced with forces that are radically transforming the business landscape, whether it’s rising inflation, labor shortages, supply chain disruptions, changing consumer behaviors or evolving regulations. To our amazement, an incredible year of innovation mania unfolded before our eyes as many of these companies are embarking on a future-focused journey to build a stronger and more sustainable capability for innovation than ever before,” said Ludwig Melik, CEO of Planbox.

Accordingly, Planbox has solidified its standing in the innovation management platforms market as the top vendor in its industry, receiving high praise from customers and analysts of leading independent research firms including Forrester and IDC. Planbox is recognized in part for its ease of use and setup, as well as its superior platform capabilities and consulting services across all stages of the innovation process.

Below are some of the key highlights of 2022 as Planbox continues to provide an innovation management experience that people really, really like.

Major Milestones

A look at some of the records we broke this year.

  • Largest expansion in company history: New customers increased by almost 60% as existing clients look to scale their innovation program across the enterprise.
  • Record renewals: Renewals are at 90%+ with 50%+ of clients committing to the platform for a three to five year term to continue building on their innovation program’s positive momentum while also protecting against unnecessary inflationary costs.

Recognitions and Ratings

A look at what analysts and users have said about us.

  • IDC names Planbox a leader: Planbox is recognized as the top vendor in the latest IDC MarketScape on innovation management platforms, and for having the best decision-making and project management capabilities specific to innovation.
  • Forrester names Planbox an “innovation generalist”: Planbox is recognized as a top vendor in the latest Forrester Now Tech report on innovation management platforms, and for elevating innovation efforts to a repeatable practice.
  • G2 recognizes Planbox as a top performing vendor: Planbox is recognized as the highest user-rated idea management platform with a 4.8/5 score on G2.com.

Customers Love Us

A look at some customer love notes from this past year:

  • “A distinguished product in the marketplace”
  • “Amazing software helping us achieve even better results”
  • “Top of the line experience”
  • “Fantastic platform with great support”
  • “Cannot select a better partner for innovation management!”
  • “Excellent crowdsourcing idea management tool”
  • “Planbox is your go-to suite for all things continuous improvement!”
  • “Does everything you would expect and is easy to use.”
  • “World class experience”
  • “Great company and great people to work with!”
  • “Flexible solution that allows you to keep up with a changing landscape”
  • “A customizable platform to suit any of your innovation and ideation goals”

Building Strong Relationships

A look at some of the amazing organizations we partnered with.

  • Selected by Curi to Create a ‘Single Source of Truth’ For Innovation
  • Selected by Medco Foundation to Empower Nationwide Startup Collaboration
  • Partnered with Tech For Good to Drive Action for the UN SDGs

Adapting to Customer Needs

A look at awesome new features we’ve added to our platform.

  • Guide brainstorming and business case development with collaborative canvas: Visually develop a business case or communicate the potential value of an idea in an easy-to-read one-page format.
  • Get a pulse on your challenge with Objectives and Key Results (OKRs): See how much engagement and interest your challenge gets in real-time, including votes, comments, and idea submissions. Once the challenge ends, get an activity breakdown and an overview of outcomes, goals, and lessons learned to share with participants.
  • Paint a picture of your innovation program: View program engagement, contributors, health, and more with an innovation activity dashboard.       
  • Streamline the evaluation process with task sessions: Customize task forms, assign them to reviewers, track their progress, and send notifications when they’re falling behind. It’s idea evaluation made easy.
  • Give users more ways to vote on ideas: We added two new voting methods that give your challenges more flexibility:
    • Single voting: A user can cast only one vote, just like an election.
    • User limited voting: A user can cast multiple votes using an allocated number of votes. Think of it as crowdfunding for idea management.
  • Bring the power of Google into Planbox with ElasticSearch: Come up with all the information you need in an instant. Type your query, hit search, and watch your results magically unfold in the form of neatly organized tables and columns.
  • Create a healthy funnel with status groups: Ideas in different stages and different workflows can be grouped together so that you can view your interior innovation portfolio in a funnel report. The idea funnel report helps you quickly assess whether you have a healthy mix of ideas in early, advanced, and implemented stages.
  • Tame your Jira backlog: Your IT, product and delivery teams are overwhelmed with Jira tickets. With our integration, you can develop the best ideas before tickets are created so you can have fewer issues and more working solutions.

Raising the Bar for Cloud Security

A look at the security certificates we’ve been awarded.

  • Awarded Supply Arrangement by Canadian Federal Government
  • Awarded G-Cloud 13 Framework Agreement by UK Government for a third consecutive year
  • Completed SOC 2 Type 2 Audit of its Security, Availability, and Confidentiality Controls for a fourth consecutive year

Pushing Innovation Forward

A look at some of the best practice research and thought leadership content we published.

  • Spearheaded a first-of-its-kind master class on ISO 56001 to help business leaders understand and prepare for internationally recognized guidance and requirement standards for innovation management.
  • Published the 2022 State of Corporate Innovation Report in which we surveyed 134 innovation management professionals on how their organizations are managing their innovation program, investments, and activities.
  • Published an Executive Insights for Innovation Teams report to help innovation management professionals support the case for an enterprise-wide approach to corporate innovation.
  • Published a 2022 Data on Sustainability report which looks at sustainability efforts in large organizations, from communication, to KPIs, to stakeholder engagement.

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About Planbox

Innovation is at the heart of becoming Future-Fit. Our end-to-end agile innovation management platform and services empower medium and large-sized organizations to become more adaptive, creative, and resilient. Planbox helps you turn creative ideas into winning projects and integrate everyday tools to collaborate smarter with your community of employees, customers, partners, startups, governments, academia, and expert solvers. Planbox has offices in Canada, UK, and USA, with customers around the world in over 140 countries.