Idea Management: Turn employee ideas into real improvements

Idea management software collects employee suggestions, routes each one to a reviewer and tracks it until the employee gets an answer, and through to a project if it is approved. In lean plants this is called a suggestion system or kaizen teian.

For a large team, yes. A box depends on one person reading every slip, so ideas wait and people stop submitting. Software sends each idea to the right reviewer, reminds them, and shows the employee the answer.

Employees submit ideas from the app or a shared tablet, open the form from a QR code, sign in with an employee ID and can speak their idea instead of typing it. A reviewer approves, rejects with feedback or marks each one as not a suggestion. Approved ideas are completed or become a Kaizen or A3 project in a few clicks, linked to the original idea.

Yes. Ideas are routed to reviewers by role, for example safety ideas to the EHS manager. Reviewers can add an approver or @mention a colleague for a quick opinion.

Yes. Lean AI groups similar ideas and predicts whether each submission is an idea or a complaint, its priority and its next step. It also fixes wording, suggests titles and translates ideas.

Points, campaigns with multipliers, a monthly leaderboard and a prize catalogue, where points come off when an admin approves a prize. Most of all, people see every idea answered.

Each idea can get a prioritization score from its reach, impact, confidence and ease, and admins can change the formula to match your goals.

Yes. Teams of 25 or fewer can use the Idea Management System free on the Starter plan at starter.theleansuite.com. Larger sites move to the facility plan: one flat price per facility with unlimited users.