Internal innovation, with a workspace

Every employee idea — now in one workspace.

Your people submit ideas. Your innovation team collects, evaluates, and turns the best into real projects — every submission, score, and decision in one place. No idea lost in an inbox, no workshop sticky notes in a drawer, no “whatever happened to that idea?”

The cost of the suggestion box

Three numbers your innovation program is quietly losing every quarter.

6hrs / wk
Lost reconciling idea status across email, spreadsheets, and workshop notes.

Per program lead. Internal Venture Kit replaces the catch-up call with a live workspace the whole team logs into.

23days
Average lag from a submitted idea to a go/no-go decision.

Internal Venture Kit programs average days, not months — every idea scored, ranked, and visible.

0
Auditable decision records when leadership asks why this idea, not that one.

Every decision ships with criteria, scoring, and the conversation history attached.

How it works

Your innovation team moves ideas forward.
The workspace makes it visible.

Every phase has two sides: the work your innovation team is doing, and the artifact everyone sees in the platform. Nothing lives in an inbox or a deck.

Phase
What your innovation team does
What you see in the workspace
Phase 01

Collect

Opens submissions to the whole company and triages what comes in against your strategy.

Open to every employeeCurated, not chaos

An ideas inbox with every submission captured — submitter, area, and strategic context attached.

Live in your projectCommentable
Phase 02

Evaluate

Pre-qualifies the promising ideas and sends them to ambassadors to score against your criteria.

Independent scoringMultiple reviewers

A ranked shortlist with scoring, criteria, and votes — in a dedicated evaluation tab, not a reply-all.

Days, not monthsAudit-ready
Phase 03

Decide

Drafts the recommendation with the idea profile, scores, and the trade-offs.

Honest pros & consNo politics

A decision record on the idea — approve, park, or request more info, signed off in one click.

Leadership-defensibleTime-stamped
Phase 04

Build

Promotes the winning idea into an innovation project and drives delivery to implementation.

Hands-on PMOwner + team

A live funnel — Scoping → Decision → Development → Validation → Implementation, with weekly status.

No status emailCloses the loop
Quantifiable, actionable, accessible

Every idea, on one screen.

Open Internal Venture Kit and see exactly what’s moving, what’s blocking, and what only you can unblock. The work is in numbers and links — not adjectives.

Innovation Program · Acme Co.
Live · synced 38s ago
Ideas submitted
128
↑  +14 this week
In evaluation
18
↑  +5 this week
Decisions on you
3
!  2 overdue
Live projects
6
↑  this quarter

Projects

Warehouse Robotics
Development · Wk 4/8
55%
Live
Battery 2nd Life
Decision · 2 ideas
70%
On you
AI for Service Ops
Evaluation · scoring
38%
Scoping
Paperless Onboarding
Scoping · clustering
14%
Scoping

This week

Mon
Priya scored 12 ideas on Service Ops
Tue
Paperless Onboarding moved to Development
Wed
Anja (Ops) approved the Robotics project scope
Thu
Decision needed: Battery 2nd Life funding
Fri
Warehouse Robotics shipped Wk 4 milestone
Versus the alternative

A suggestion box is not an innovation program.

Today
Internal Venture Kit
Annual idea workshop
Always-on submissions — any employee, any time
Idea status in someone's head
Pipeline with owner, next action, due date
Approval by reply-all
Decision records — criteria + scoring attached
Friday status deck
Live activity feed — refresh, not request
Built for the whole company

One workspace. Three roles. Each sees what they need.

For the innovation team

Run the program from one place.

Submissions, evaluation, decisions, projects — all in one workspace your reviewers log into.

“Every idea has an owner. Every idea has a next step.”
For the innovation ambassador

Evaluate without the meetings.

Score the ideas that matter against clear criteria. Your vote feeds the ranking.

“15 minutes, a clear score, done.”
For the employee

Submit an idea in two minutes.

No login, no friction. Drop your idea and see it taken seriously.

“Finally, somewhere my idea won’t disappear.”
Proof, not promises

What teams say after they roll it out.

“We didn’t want another suggestion box nobody reads. With Internal Venture Kit our employees’ ideas finally have a process — submitted, scored, and turned into real projects— and our teams actually log into it.”

Franziska Pillmann
Franziska Pillmann
Lead Innovation Consulting & Foresight, LBBW
Start the conversation

Tell us about your innovation program.We’ll set up your workspace.

30-minute call, no slide deck. We’ll walk you through a sample workspace and the submission flow your employees would use.

Justin Gemeri
Justin Gemeri
Innovation consultant · ekipa

“Six years running innovation programs. I’ll tell you what’s hard before you roll it out.”

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