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Idea Meritocracy Software

In an idea meritocracy, it's the best ideas that win, not the ones with most vocal supporters. Viima helps you run that process at scale.

 

It's the best ideas that should win, not the ones with the loudest supporters.

Idea meritocracy, a term created by the Bridgewater founder Ray Dalio, is a great concept for describing the best and most innovative organizations. Everyone can, and should, express their thoughts and ideas openly, and that's how the best ideas often emerge.

Great leaders are often not the ones with the best ideas, but the ones who ensure that the best ideas emerge victorious. Hence, in order to continuously capture the tacit knowledge, and passion of team members, a structured, objective, and result-oriented ideation process has to be implemented.

In an idea meritocracy, it's good to disagree openly. When disagreements are managed transparently, and objectively, they lead to new insights and better ideas. It's this culture where you can challenge conventions that helps you gain a competitive advantage as an organization.

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Idea Meritocracy In a Nutshell

An idea meritocracy is a simple, yet extremely powerful concept. To create one, you need three basic building blocks.

Openness To Ideas From Everyone

Although an idea meritocracy is not a democracy, the first key is to give everyone across the organization, regardless of position, a voice, and then to listen to them. The best ideas often come from from where you least expect them to, don't turn a blind eye.

Radical Transparency & Permission to Disagree

The second key is to allow everyone to disagree and share their rationale. Having thoughtful disagreements always leads to better ideas, and is key to really understanding how complex issues work. Doing this transparently helps everyone step up their game.

Truthful & Objective Decision-making

In an idea meritocracy, decisions should always be made truthfully and objectively. This naturally leads to better decisions for the organization, and the transparent rationale helps everyone understand why a decision was made.

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Viima Helps You Create & Scale An Idea Meritocracy

Viima is a fully-featured idea meritocracy software that provides you with everything you need to create a true idea meritocracy: collect, develop, prioritize and manage your ideas systematically and transparently across the organization.

It's easy to use and simple to get started with, yet flexible enough to work for the needs of even the largest organizations. Plus, we offer a free plan for an unlimited number of users.

Collect
Collect ideas from your employees, customers, suppliers, and other stakeholders. With Viima, it's all a breeze.
Prioritize & Develop
Ideas are just the beginning. Viima helps you build a systematic process for picking the rights ones to focus and turn into ideas.
Analyze
The best innovators are constantly looking to get better. Viima helps you fix bottlenecks, speed up decision-making, and make more innovation happen.
Scale
Top innovators scale their efforts organization-wide. That takes a lot of work, so Viima is designed to help you automate routines and make success repeatable so that you can focus more on innovation.
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Enterprise-grade reliability, security and flexibility.

Viima's idea meritocracy software was designed to be super easy and engaging to use, while still providing you enterprise-grade capabilities. As a result, people love using it.

Flexible

Our board based design allows you to flexibly adapt to your innovation needs without IT support. Adjustable appearance, fine-grained control over features, SSO & flexible user management and easy integrations are the name of the game.

Scalable

Viima scales all the way from small teams to the Global Fortune 500. Have thousands of users and hundreds of simultaneous processes and use cases? No problem. As your innovation operations grow, Viima grows with you.

Secure

We follow industry standards and best practices, such as ISO 27001, and are regularly audited by third parties. We are also fully GDPR compliant. You always maintain ownership and control for all of your data.
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Olivia ISARD LOreal

Viima allows everyone in the company to raise ideas, questions or concerns, directly to the top management team, and in an anonymous way.

It's a powerful tool to get feedback in full transparency and find adapted solutions in a very timely manner.

OLIVIA ISARD
HEAD OF SKINCARE DEVELOPMENT LABORATORIES - NIHON L’ORÉAL

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Key Success Factors for Creating An Idea Meritocracy

A good idea meritocracy software like Viima already goes a long in getting it right, but there's a bit more to idea meritocracy than that. However, as long as you keep these best practices in mind, it's almost guaranteed that you'll succeed.

Experiment

In a meritocracy, actions speak louder than words so leaders in idea meritocracies are experimenting constantly. They see what works, they understand why it works, and then they scale that. If something does not work, they let it go.
 

Empower

Ideas are everywhere. Remember that it's your job to create an ecosystem where people regardless of status can easily provide their ideas, and that leaders will listen to them and to give the good ones an opportunity.
 

Be Disciplined

Disciplined action is crucial for idea meritocracies, otherwise you're just going to scatter and debate endlessly. Make disciplined decisions with an objective framework, and then commit to executing the ideas with discipline.
 

Value Expertise

In a great idea meritocracy, leaders still make the decisions, but they're humble enough to admit that they aren't the foremost expert on everything. They value expertise highly and seek objective, rational input from everyone involved.

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