77 Wazoku Testimonials

“Inspiring our people to solve problems – big and small – continues our proud 100+ years of innovation. Keeping people motivated in our innovation is a key part of my role, and users on the Elkem idea platform have risen every quarter since the partnership began in 2019.”

"The results of our digital innovation programme using Idea Spotlight have been astounding in terms of creativity. We’ve received so many ideas which wouldn’t have been discovered without this process. Using Idea Spotlight has helped enable people who wouldn’t normally contribute to digital innovation not just contribute, but be part of that conversation."

"Not only was going down the conventional development path prohibitively expensive, it was simply too slow and had no guarantee of success. We wanted to be first-to-market not the last one to the table."

"The success of our Partner Ideas scheme goes to show that sometimes the truly great innovations can be as simple as making small changes to the tasks you do every day, rather than the big ideas which transform everything. By engaging our Partners with the right platform and process, we’ve managed to achieve significant productivity and financial savings. We’re excited to see what we can achieve when we role the scheme out to the entire Waitrose network."

“We want to explore how we can more effectively engage with our partners, because they know the business better than anyone. They have fabulous ideas, so we need to engage and discussion with them, capture these ideas and select the good from the bad. The employees find the tool easy to use and intuitive. There are endless opportunities to engage with our partners.”

"We’ve engaged over 35,000 employees across 18 markets around the world in developing ideas to improve our customers’ experience. It’s good for us, good for our people and ultimately, good for our customers."

“Innovation is viewed as a tangible, effective and sustainable activity with the potential to deliver on key strategic objectives.”

"Over the next year we are aiming for at least four key outcomes to have originated from Think Space and hope staff will embrace the new platform, with at least 10 per cent of colleagues contributing ideas. If we meet those targets then we will take Think Space to our customers too, as I am sure they will also be a rich source of ideas."

"Idea Spotlight helped us generate a large amount of ideas in a short space of time. It made it simple to choose which ideas to take forward; we could gauge opinion from the team and capture their feedback easily."

"Wazoku is straight forward to use so we engaged with it immediately. It is human, user friendly, clearly designed with SME requirements in mind and has already proved its value to Faber."

“We have been able to communicate with the whole organisation in a consistent way and push messages directly to people that are engaging with us on the platform.”

“There is no other platform in market that allows such comprehensive development of student business ideas.”

"Having over 90% of data submitted online made the compilation of comments and creation of charts easy."

"Wazoku’s Idea Spotlight tool was by far the best interface our team evaluated – very user friendly and required little support to use and maintain. Also, it provides very good value for the functionality available. The fact it’s accessible anywhere on any device was also hugely appealing for our global teams."

“We have some lofty objectives for the West of England AHSN and see Idea Spotlight as a key tool in helping to achieve those. We need to engage a diverse audience from a large geographical area and connect the network together. Idea Spotlight is an ideal way to do this – it makes it easy for us to capture and test ideas, promote opportunities and challenges, and engage across organisational, sector and geographic boundaries.”