Wazoku Reviews, Ratings & Features 2026 | Gartner Peer Insights

Innovation management tools market help organizations manage the flow of ideas from initial concept generation to final value realization or commercial exploitation. They support diverse methods to generate ideas, both internally or externally; to prioritize and select ideas; to act on selected ideas; to observe and measure activity and impact; and to operate innovation programs at scale.
Product capabilities include trendspotting, crowdsourcing, brainstorming or hackathons; stage-gate automation for idea evaluation and selection; and ways to manage a portfolio of active ideas (including idea execution to bring ideas to realization via project or product management).

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Wazoku

IT MANAGER - APPLICATION SUPPORT

It was easy to implement, it has a very intuitive UI and the integrations work perfectly. This tool effectively keeps track of the features and ideas for multiple products in our company and the timeline report helps us to check and deepen all the characteristics of our product. 

3B - 10B USD

<50M USD

50M - 250M USD

10B - 30B USD

30B + USD

Gov't/PS/ED <5,000 Employees

Gov't/PS/ED 5,000 - 50,000 Employees

ASSISTANT MANAGER

For me it was an ok experience. Definitely a path breaking software, however could be better

Sr. Marketing & Product Development Manager

The tool has impressed me with how it has been easy to integrate with other platforms and the level of customer care that is ongoing post-go-live. This tool has allowed us to create a coherent workflow across the organization that helps our employees to submit ideas, vote, and comment in a very easy way.

IdeaScale

Ideanote

Brightidea

Sideways 6

HYPE (Planbox)

Planview

Exago

Ideawake

Wellspring (Sopheon)

Crowdicity

Nosco

InnovationCast

Plus Innovations

IdeaShooter

Wazoku is an organization focused on idea management and open innovation. It has developed its distinct Challenge Driven Innovation methodology which serves to stimulate innovation on a grand scale. The enterprise's core mission is to enable organizations across different sectors to participate, interact, and develop new ideas that can be morphed into valuable opportunities. Offering a comprehensive enterprise platform, Wazoku provides all the necessary resources to foster internal, external, and open innovation across global organizations. This platform is secure, adaptable, and seamlessly integrates with the broader enterprise technology infrastructure. Founded in 2011, with its headquarters in London, Wazoku also operates from Bristol in the UK and Dover, Delaware in the US. Additionally, Wazoku operates an open talent marketplace, the Wazoku Crowd, known for its active and intelligent problem-solving community.

Wazoku. Your enterprise solution for idea management & open innovation, powered by our proprietary Challenge Driven Innovation¬Æ methodology for Innovation at Scale.
Wazoku is both a for-profit and for-purpose business. We are passionate about enabling organizations to engage and collaborate with their workforce, ecosystem, customers, and the world ‚Äì to generate new ideas and turn them into impact.
Our modular enterprise platform provides you with all the tools you need to power internal, external and open innovation across your global organization.
Key benefits include:
* Unique and unparalleled innovation at scale capability: inside-in, inside-out, outside-in software and expertise.
* Enterprise-grade platform that‚Äôs secure, flexible, and integrated across the enterprise technology stack.
* Proven ROI of 182% in under 2 months through our CDI¬Æ methodology
* The world‚Äôs largest on-demand open talent community of millions of change makers
Founded in 2011, Wazoku empowers organizations such as Waitrose, HSBC, NASA and AstraZeneca, as well as central/local governments and not-for-profits to help them embed innovation as a core everyday capability and change the world, one idea at a time.
We are headquartered in London and have offices in Bristol (United Kingdom) and Dover, Delaware (USA).
Our world-leading open talent marketplace, the Wazoku Crowd, hosts millions of engaged and brilliant problem solvers and is the place for pioneering crowdsourced innovation. Interested in becoming one of our Solvers? Head over to wazoku.com to register.

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