For innovation teams
You have the mandate, and you have no shortage of ideas. What is usually missing is a process that survives contact with a real organisation, and numbers you can put in front of a board. That is the part Hives handles.
The last platform did not stick
Tools built for innovation consultants need a consultant to run them. When the program owner is the only person who understands the software, adoption ends with them.
Ideas went in, nothing came back
Nothing costs more trust than a suggestion that disappears. People contribute once, hear nothing back, and do not return. It is why the second campaign is always harder than the first.
No numbers, no mandate
Leadership does not fund a feeling. Without participation, decision rates and value delivered, innovation reads as theatre, and the budget moves to something that can be measured.
How it works for innovation
The same platform as the overview, arranged the way an innovation team works: campaigns pointed at strategic questions, a workflow that ends in decisions, and a report you can take upstairs.
Step 1 · Ask
Open a challenge around a specific strategic problem, or keep a collection running for whatever people spot day to day. You set the scope: one site, one function, or everyone. Most programs start with a single campaign and widen once the first results land.
Step 2 · Decide
Build the workflow around how your organisation already makes decisions: stages, owners, criteria and a clear next action. Contributors can see where their idea sits and why. Across our customers 89% of ideas reach a decision, which is the number that keeps people coming back.
Step 3 · Report
Participation, ideas per site, decision rates and value delivered, in a report you can export and present. Halfords used theirs to show £759,000 of value from 515 ideas in six months. Program owners also get back around 12 hours of admin a week, which is most of a working day.
Configuration, not an implementation project. Most teams run their first campaign within two to four weeks.
Get a demoUsually because the last one needed an expert. Hives is configuration rather than an implementation project, so the program owner can change a workflow or open a campaign without raising a ticket. Pricing is published from 695 euro a month with no per-user fees, so widening the program is a decision you make rather than a renegotiation.
By meeting them where they already are. A link in Teams or email for people at desks, a QR code on the wall for people on the floor, and the mobile app for everyone else. Contributing takes about two minutes from a phone, with no training session. The workflow does the rest: people take part again when they can see what happened to the last idea.
The two that travel best are the decision rate and the value delivered. 89% of ideas reaching a decision answers the trust question, and a figure like Halfords’ £759,000 in six months answers the money question. Add the 12 hours a week the program owner stops losing to admin and the business case tends to write itself.
Testimonials
Our users love how Hives.co simplifies their processes and streamlines operations.
“Hives.co stood out to us from day one thanks to their easy-to-use interface. We are very happy to work with Hives.co to collect and realise the ideas from our colleagues throughout the Halfords Group.”
“Hives.co has exceeded expectations and is visually appealing and accessible as a tool. For us, it has become more than just a technical solution; rather, it's a process and development support in how we improve.”
“We like how simple Hives keeps it, rather than having thousands of settings and features. Instead, everything was well thought out which made it easy and quick to get started.”
“Hives.co not only makes it easy to collect and sort ideas, but also fun. I don't think there's any tool on the market that's simpler than this.”
Guides and articles
Practical tips on idea management, and real examples of how others have succeeded.