Filter and Evaluate Ideas
Once your "Idea-Box" is full, you will need a clear plan of what to do with the suggestions collected. Remember: You raise expectations when collecting ideas by all people you invite to "fill the box". We introduced to you several tecniques and tools, which might produce a lot of ideas. Now comes one important step, which is much more difficult than idea creation/collection: You have to decide which ideas are the "right" ones for your company. Therefore you need to define clear rules.... .
In this section we suggest different ways of how to filter ideas first and how to evaluate the remaining ones. For both steps there is a huge variety of tools and it is hard to structure them. Therefore we concentrate on simple methods how to first filter and then evaluate an idea or suggestion. One recommendation before you start choosing your method: It is important to ban (filter) inappropriate ideas as soon as possible from your collection. When doing so you should be aware that you need clear and transparent rules (evaluate). Without such rules, you risk of demotivating the suggestion givers and next time you will open the idea-box it might be empty.