Designing the ultimate innovation management platform

From an internal tool to a SaaS product in just a few months

SOSA approached manyone to help build on the work they’ve done on their internal innovation-process workflow CRM tool and help productise it as a modern independent, SaaS product & brand. 

The resulting product,Savvy, is an end-to-end innovation management platform built for innovation leaders. The platform is designed to manage innovation initiatives across an organization, efficiently manage startup engagements, compare solutions, and advance transparency and collaboration across teams.

Manyone helped name, brand and design Savvy’s first standalone product in a series of condensed design sprints.

Efficiently build and manage your startup database with Savvy.

Savvy revolves around building use cases: areas where their company needs to push for new solutions, and may consider to implement new technologies. A list of potential technologies / startups in compiled and propagated within the organization, collecting comments, insights and votes along the way.

This is essentially a deal-flow CRM, where candidate technologies get scored, filtered, shortlisted, and eventually converted into active pilots.

We built the Savvy UX around a mix of page authoring & content-import from sources like CrunchBase, thus simplifying the 'blank page syndrome' and the barrier for adoption.

The new Savvy brand is built around the idea of use case fit: the desired outcome of successful innovation processes.

Savyy's #usecasefit symbol is a double check mark, contained within an software-inspired simplified object icon.

Deliveries

Manyone has been involved in numerous projects as part of working with the SOSA + Savvy teams:

Product ecosystem overview

User experience design

Product design

Naming strategy

Brand identity