– Create the best ideas to innovate and achieve operational excellence.

Accelerating growth and improving profitability starts with good ideas and ends with solid execution. Minitab Engage is the only solution purpose-built to help organizations create improvement and innovation programs, execute them with problem-solving tools and project management methodologies, and then track important performance metrics in real time to demonstrate ROI.

• Create ideas;
• Assess;
• Execute;
• Measure ROI;

– Direct and collect ideas.

1. Create a culture of innovation.

Promote the best ideas and encourage your team's participation by inviting everyone in your organization to submit ideas as they arise, with a fully customizable idea form.

2. Evaluate the potential of the idea and align initiatives.

Idea forms ask submitters to rate ideas based on criteria important to the organization, including alignment with business initiatives, before automatically calculating weighted assessments of benefits, efforts, and risks, providing everything needed to evaluate and prioritize emerging opportunities for innovation and improvement.

– Evaluate and launch projects.

1. Accelerate innovations with proven problem-solving methodologies.

Simplify the idea evaluation process to know which ones to work on to transform into projects. Select steering committees so the right people are notified and action items don't get lost in a Friday afternoon email. Teams can initiate proven methodologies like DMAIC, DFSS, PDCA (Plan, Do, Check, Act), and Kaizen Events, or define their own.

2. Visualize plans with diagrams and brainstorming tools.

Provide your teams with a comprehensive suite of resources to assess and develop plans designed to resolve challenges and capitalize on new opportunities. Minitab Engage is equipped with brainstorming and diagramming tools, such as mind maps, herringbone diagrams, idea maps, and affinity diagrams.

– Innovation, execution and commercialization.

1. Run with comprehensive troubleshooting tools.

Map every step of the journey with Minitab Engage Project Manager and a robust set of visual tools and forms that enable project execution and innovation commercialization across your organization, including root cause analysis, Five Why, SIPOC, project chart, and FMEA (failure mode and effects analysis) tools.

2. Advanced schedules with automatic notifications and backups.

Keep projects on track with email alerts that notify team members when projects need attention, such as new assignments, approvals, important phase reviews, and upcoming project milestones. Everyone can work confidently, knowing that projects are automatically backed up to prevent rework or knowledge loss.

3. Incorporate insights from Minitab Statistical Software analyses.

Design team members can send results from Minitab statistical software directly to Minitab Engage or integrate a Minitab file into the Engage roadmap.

– Real-time ROI.

1. Monitor the status of the project.

Instantly review the status of your improvement and innovation initiatives with Minitab Engage's real-time dashboards to enable strategic decision-making and course corrections.

2. Track KPIs with dynamic dashboards.

View important project metrics with dynamic, up-to-date program performance metrics tracking. View financial summaries, progress against goals, and monitor project status. View your entire initiative or focus on specific projects, teams, or divisions.

3. Generate reports ready to be presented.

Demonstrate organizational influence and keep key stakeholders engaged by easily creating reports and dashboards to document contributions and successes.

4. Recognize and reproduce success.

Inspire teams to replicate success across the organization by using Minitab Engage to initiate, track, manage, and share innovation and improvement initiatives from idea generation to execution.