Planview IdeaPlace

Planview IdeaPlace is the idea and innovation management product within Planview's portfolio, which also includes Portfolios, PPM Pro, ProjectPlace, Daptiv, Enterprise Architecture, Hub and Viz. It collects ideas from across an organisation, evaluates them through structured challenges and crowd input, and advances the ones worth pursuing.

Sitting in a project portfolio management vendor's product line is the substantive difference, because it addresses where idea management usually fails. A campaign collects a thousand suggestions, a committee selects a dozen, and then nothing happens, because the funding and resourcing decisions are made in a different system by different people. Connecting the pipeline to the portfolio that allocates money and staff is what turns an accepted idea into work someone is actually assigned.

That connection is also the constraint. The value depends on running Planview's portfolio products, so an organisation using another PPM tool gets an idea management platform without the mechanism that distinguishes it.

Crowd evaluation deserves scrutiny rather than acceptance. Aggregating employee judgement surfaces ideas a small committee would miss, and it also reliably favours the popular and comprehensible over the genuinely novel.