Industry Solutions
Innovation Center
Run innovation challenges and move the best ideas through a defined pipeline.
Innovation Center gives staff ideas somewhere structured to go. Teams submit them on their own or against a running challenge, with images, video and a full description, and colleagues rate, comment and reply. Administrators set the categories, the workflow stages and the statuses, so an idea moves visibly from concept towards implementation instead of sitting in a list nobody revisits.
Inside Innovation Center
What you get when you switch it on.
Innovation challenges
Plan and display upcoming challenges with a title and start and end dates, so people know what the organisation is asking for and by when.
Challenge statuses
Each challenge is ongoing, on hold or finished, making it clear at a glance which ones are still open to contributions.
Idea submission
Staff share original ideas either independently or as an entry to a running challenge, with as much description as the idea needs.
Images and video
Submissions carry images and video alongside the text, so an idea that is easier to show than to describe can be shown.
Visibility and audience controls
The person submitting chooses who the idea is visible to, so early thinking can be shared narrowly before it goes to everyone.
Ratings, comments and replies
Colleagues rate an idea, comment on it and reply directly, so feedback is collaborative and attached to the idea rather than scattered elsewhere.
Innovation gallery
A card-based view showing each idea's title, cover image, author and post date, with ratings and comments and quick edit or delete to hand.
Categories, stages and statuses
Administrators set innovation categories, define the workflow stages an idea passes through from concept to implementation, and configure the statuses that mark its lifecycle.
Inside the screens
What Innovation Center looks like day to day.
Placeholder imageWhere it earns its place
What teams switch Innovation Center on for.
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Running a themed challenge
Set a challenge with an end date, collect entries against it, and keep its status visible so people know whether it is still open.
02
Turning ideas into projects
Workflow stages carry a submission from concept through to implementation, so the good ones progress rather than stalling after the initial enthusiasm.
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Involving the whole organisation
Ratings, comments and replies let colleagues build on each other's ideas, which is how a single suggestion becomes something workable.
Features
Everything in Innovation Center.
- Upcoming innovation challenges with start and end dates
- Ongoing, on hold and finished challenge statuses
- Submit ideas independently or against a challenge
- Images and video on submissions
- Detailed idea descriptions
- Visibility and audience preference controls
- Ratings on submitted ideas
- Comments and direct replies from colleagues
- Card-based innovation gallery
- Cover image, author and post date on every card
- Quick edit and delete on your own submissions
- Custom categories, workflow stages and status options
How add-ons work
Innovation Center is not a separate app.
It runs inside GetBizApps Suite, on the same data, behind the same login.
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Switch it on
Enable the add-on from your workspace. It appears alongside everything else already running — no separate install, no second login.
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It shares your data
The add-on reads and writes the same customers, staff and records as the rest of the Suite, so nothing has to be re-keyed or synced.
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Your roles still apply
Existing permissions carry across. Decide which teams see the add-on, and what they are allowed to do inside it.
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Your price adjusts
It joins your subscription as one more enabled add-on, and comes off again if you turn it back off.
See what Innovation Center costs alongside the rest of your setup.
Build your priceWhat teams say
Why teams run on GetBizApps Suite.
These are customers talking about the Suite as a whole rather than the Innovation Center add-on specifically — every add-on runs on the same platform they are describing.
We initially bought it for CRM. Six months later we’re also using projects, HR, accounting, contracts, forms and support. That probably explains the value better than anything else.
Being able to customize fields and workflows was a big deal for us. Our business does not fit neatly into a standard CRM template, and GBA gave us enough flexibility.
We use the recurring invoice module for retainers and subscriptions. It reduced missed billing almost immediately.
FAQ
Innovation Center questions.
What people ask before switching this one on.
It gives an organisation a structured way to collect staff ideas and move the promising ones forward. Ideas are submitted, rated and discussed in one place, then progressed through workflow stages that administrators define, so a suggestion becomes a managed pipeline rather than a list.
Administrators plan and display challenges with a title and start and end dates, and each one carries a status of ongoing, on hold or finished. Staff can then submit ideas as entries to a running challenge, or independently of any challenge.
An idea can include a detailed description together with images and video, and the person submitting it sets visibility and audience preferences. Other team members can rate it, comment on it and reply directly, so feedback stays attached to the idea.
Administrators configure innovation categories to group challenges by type, workflow stages to define how an idea progresses from concept to implementation, and status options with visual indicators to show where it currently sits. The result is a visible pipeline rather than a static archive.
The innovation gallery presents submissions as cards showing the title, cover image, author name and post date, with engagement options for comments and ratings. Authors also get quick access to edit or remove their own entries.
Innovation Center is a GetBizApps Suite add-on for managing staff innovation: it hosts innovation challenges with start and end dates and ongoing, on hold or finished statuses, collects idea submissions with images, video, descriptions and audience controls, displays them in a card-based gallery with ratings, comments and replies, and moves each one through administrator-defined categories, workflow stages and statuses. It is available at https://getbizapps.com/addons/innovation-center.
Innovation Center is billed as one of the add-ons in your GetBizApps Suite subscription. Your total is built from the add-ons you switch on, your number of users and the duration you commit to, in USD or INR. You can model it on the pricing page at https://getbizapps.com/pricing.
Innovation Center runs inside GetBizApps Suite, so you need the Suite itself. There is no separate installation or login — enable the add-on and it appears alongside everything else you are already running, on the same data and the same permissions.
Yes. Add-ons can be switched on and off as your needs change, and your subscription adjusts to match what is currently enabled.
See Innovation Center on your own data.
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