What is Innovate in Vocean?
Innovate is Vocean’s activity for collecting ideas, perspectives, and insights from many people in a structured and engaging way. The activity helps you understand needs, explore opportunities, and encourage participation around important topics.
Use Innovate when you want to encourage new thinking, capture experiences, or collect ideas from employees, residents, customers, or project groups.
Unlike traditional surveys, Innovate uses open-ended questions that allow participants to contribute their own thoughts and perspectives. This creates a richer basis for understanding needs, challenges, and opportunities.
When should I use Innovate?
Use Innovate when you want to:
- Collect ideas and suggestions for improvement
- Capture needs and different perspectives
- Encourage participation at an early stage
- Explore opportunities before making decisions
- Engage many people around the same topic
How does it work?
- Create one or more questions
- Participants submit their contributions
- Contributions can be categorized and evaluated
- The results are analyzed and used as a basis for the next step
From simple to advanced
An Innovate activity can be as simple as a single question where participants submit open-text responses.
You can also create more advanced activities where participants:
- Evaluate ideas using properties
- Work with categories
- Upload images
- Develop ideas together
Tip
Think of Innovate as the starting point of the Process. This is where you collect the material that can later be explored, analyzed, and prioritized.