start a brainstorm
• Basic open brainstorms are free.
• Access to tools to stimulate thought.
• Collect ratings on submitted ideas.
• Tap latent employee knowledge.
• Get input from suppliers.
• Capture customer and user feedback.
• Contributors can submit pictures, graphics and images (up to 2MB).
• Present challenges to contributors.
• Generate support for back-office innovations.
• Get employee buy-in on initiatives.
• Communicate critical issues on strategies and vision.
• Generate awareness of world of ideas.
• Solicit a diversity of ideas.
• Build on submitted ideas.
• Initiate brainstorming campaigns.
• Allows submission of ideas at any time.
• Contributing to a brainstorm is free.
If you would like to start an invitational brainstorm or would like to remove the banner ads from your open brainstorm, there is a license of $14.95 per brainstorm per month.
There are two types of brainstorms available for members of brainstorm exchange to start.
open brainstorm
If you are interested in attracting the widest possible audience and generating the broadest diversity of ideas, then you should start an open brainstorm. Open brainstorms are open to all members of the brainstorm exchange community for comment and contribution. Open brainstorms are free. They do carry banner ads, but these can be removed for a license fee of $14.95 per brainstorm per month. Addional functionality comes with a paid license for either open brainstorms: you may include sponsor created tools, links and images with the brainstorm; you may designate internal reviewers, and; you may set-up an internal review and evaluation process of submitted ideas including 10 custom areas, internal reviewer comments and recommendations for a path forward.invitational brainstorm
If you are interested in limiting the contributors to your brainstorm to those that you have specifically invited, then you should start an invitational brainstorm. You won't attract the broadest diversity of ideas, but will retain some control over who is contributing. These contributors, who must register as members of brainstorm exchange, can be your clients, customers, suppliers, employees, or other who are at least initally familiar what you are trying to accomplish or have some relevant experience that you deem valuable. Other members of the brainstorm exchange community can request invitations to participate, which you may extend, at your discretion. Invitational brainstorms have a license fee of $14.95 per brainstorm per month. Addional functionality comes with a paid license for invitational brainstorms: you may include sponsor created tools, links and images with the brainstorm; you may designate internal reviewers, and; you may set-up an internal review and evaluation process of submitted ideas including 10 custom areas, internal reviewer comments and recommendations for a path forward.Title your brainstorm, and include any guidelines you feel are necessary. Once you have started your brainstorm, you may fine tune its design by going to the design page accessed through the brainstorm administration page, which is avaible on the mybrainstorms page. On the design page you may add links, images and tools to your brainstorm.