Our Innovation Applications - OVO Tools

Please note that as of January 31, 2009 OVO Software will no longer be available for licensing or purchase.

OVO Tools is a suite of software applications that can work independently or together to improve your innovation capacity, increasing your ability to include everyone in the innovation process, reducing innovation cycle time, reducing redundancy and rework, and improving return on innovation.

The applications provide a collaborative framework to enable your teams and business partners to generate, capture, incubate and evaluate new ideas and business concepts.

OVO Tools provide immediate benefits. Your team can get started very quickly, with little investment. Using our hosted model, there's no long term commitment and you'll recognize the benefits immediately.

Spark, Incubator and Shuffle are relevant to the "Front End" tasks for innovation - generating, capturing and managing ideas

Spark - a web-based brainstorming and idea campaign application which enables teams to generate ideas, group ideas and vote on ideas. Anyone, anywhere can participate in idea campaigns, both real-time and for designated time periods.

Incubator - an idea database where ideas from any source can be captured and evaluated. Incubator provides tools to manage ideas, to incubate and add context to ideas, and to evaluate ideas.

Shuffle - A web-based 3x5 card application to capture ideas, trends, competitive moves, products and data and understand what's happening in your environment. Shuffle helps capture the knowledge in your business and use it to understand the trends, products, customers and markets.

Develop, Launch and ScoreCard are relevant to product and service development and launch.

Develop - OVO provides integration through web services to product lifecycle management applications (PLM).

Launch - OVO Launch assists in the project management and workflow tasks associated with launching a new product or service into the marketplace

Scorecard - an interactive web-based application that provides a mechanism for organizations to establish goals and measure the results of managed innovation processes.