--- title: Collaborative Strategy Process description: A collaborative strategy process has a number of advantages over traditional methods. With Viima you can involved the entire staff in formulating and implementing the strategy, and make more informed decisions. image: https://www.viima.com/hubfs/Section%20backgrounds/double%20screenshot.png --- [Skip to content](https://www.viima.com/collaborative-strategy-process#main-content) [![HYPE Boards\_logo](https://www.viima.com/hubfs/Logos/HYPE%20Boards_logo.svg "HYPE Boards_logo")](https://www.viima.com/?hsLang=en) [Product](https://www.viima.com/product?hsLang=en) [Use Cases](https://www.viima.com/use-cases?hsLang=en) [Easy to start. 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By involving them in the process, you can create a more engaged and informed staff, better equipped to drive the execution phase - which is often the most challenging part of the strategy process. Ask Kick off the process by asking for feedback on your new strategy, or for ideas on how to best implement it. Engage Engage employees to share their thoughts on the new strategy and to use their insights to find ways to best implement it. Refine Use the collected ideas and insights to refine your strategy and help plan the implementation. Analyze and Prioritize Analyse the ideas and pieces of feedback you've gathered and prioritize them to form a cohesive plan for executing the strategy. ![Board bubble view screenshot](https://www.viima.com/hubfs/Viima_application_screenshots/UX_refresh/Board%20bubble%20view%20screenshot.webp) ![Board IDV screenshot](https://www.viima.com/hubfs/Viima_application_screenshots/UX_refresh/Board%20IDV%20screenshot.webp) ![Admin evaluation dashboard screenshot](https://www.viima.com/hubfs/Viima_application_screenshots/UX_refresh/Admin%20evaluation%20dashboard%20screenshot.webp) ![Admin portal dashboard screenshot](https://www.viima.com/hubfs/Viima_application_screenshots/UX_refresh/Admin%20portal%20dashboard%20screenshot.png) ## HYPE Boards makes it easy to run a collaborative strategy process. To effectively collaborate on strategy, you need a tool that can streamline discussions and keep everyone focused on the deliverables. The tool should be user-friendly and versatile enough to adapt to various processes. HYPE Boards is the perfect solution, providing a balance between ease-of-use and affordability, while also delivering the flexibility and reliability expected from an enterprise-grade tool. collaborative strategy **Flexibility** HYPE Boards' flexible system can easily adapt to your needs, whether you want to ask your R&D team about industry trends or get feedback from your leadership team on the new strategy.   **Collaboration** Use the boards to easily run multiple campaigns for different audiences simultaneously by selecting the question and choosing the participants for collaboration.   **Automation** HYPE Boards simplifies the strategy process by categorizing ideas and insights, linking related ones, and providing tools like automated notifications and duplicate prevention to make management easier.   ![double screenshot](https://www.viima.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Section%20backgrounds/double%20screenshot.png?width=2000&height=1500&name=double%20screenshot.png "double screenshot") ##### Optimal collaboration HYPE Boards simplifies the complex strategy process by enabling you to ask questions from different audiences during various stages of the process, ensuring optimal collaboration. ![collaboration highlight](https://www.viima.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Viima_application_screenshots/collaboration%20highlight.webp?width=1543&height=868&name=collaboration%20highlight.webp) ##### Streamlined collaboration HYPE Boards is the ideal tool for successful collaboration, designed to make ideation and collaboration easy and enjoyable, which make it the highest rated tool in the industry. ![communication-custom-fields-highlight](https://www.viima.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Viima_application_screenshots/Features%20Highlights/communication-custom-fields-highlight.webp?width=1543&height=868&name=communication-custom-fields-highlight.webp) ![stylized-workflow-automation](https://www.viima.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Viima_application_screenshots/UX_refresh/stylized-workflow-automation.webp?width=2000&height=2000&name=stylized-workflow-automation.webp "stylized-workflow-automation") build your process **Engage the right people** You often need to dig deeper a bit deeper to turn insights and rough ideas into solid concepts. HYPE Boards helps you do that with powerful discussion features such as mentioning specific people and adding attachments.   **Progress ideas** Shared responsibility often means no responsibility. When the time comes to get things done, HYPE Boards helps you make sure that it's always someone's job to progress every idea.   **Evaluate ideas** Once you're done collecting feedback and insights, you'll end up with plenty of ideas to consider and choose from. HYPE Boards provides a flexible engine for evaluating ideas: choose your own metrics and pick the right people to rate the ideas on them.   ## Ready to unleash your innovation potential? Want to see how HYPE Boards can help you generate and collect more, better ideas?  Get started in minutes! Gather insights and collaborate on your strategy process using our dedicated [board template](https://app.viima.com/signup/?promo=template_collaborative-strategy-process/). 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