# Nosco

> Nosco helps organisations run innovation initiatives — from idea capture to incubation — with a platform and consultancy partnership.

## Brand pages

- [Home](https://nos.co/): Nosco — innovation platform and consultancy.
- [About](https://nos.co/about-us/): The team, mission, and impact behind Nosco.
- [Contact](https://nos.co/contact-nosco/): Get in touch with Nosco.
- [Platform](https://nos.co/platform/): Nosco's innovation platform overview.
- [FAQ](https://nos.co/faq/): Frequently asked questions about the Nosco platform.

## Services

- [Innovation Challenge](https://nos.co/services/innovation-challenge/): Company-wide, time-bound innovation programme that mobilises leadership, managers and employees around a clear call for ideas and turns the best five-plus opportunities into investment-ready cases.
- [License to Innovate](https://nos.co/services/license-to-innovate/): An entrepreneurship training programme that equips employees with the mindset, tools, and methods of corporate entrepreneurs.
- [Portfolio Shaping](https://nos.co/services/portfolio-shaping/): Structure and prioritise your innovation portfolio — assess opportunities side by side, allocate resources to what works, and retire what doesn't.
- [AI Idea Campaign](https://nos.co/services/ai-idea-campaign/): Time-bound, AI-assisted idea campaigns that mobilise your organisation around a clear question and converge fast on the best answers.
- [Validation](https://nos.co/services/validation/): Structured validation of your riskiest assumptions — rapid experiments and real customer feedback before you commit serious investment.
- [Innovation Operating Model](https://nos.co/services/innovation-operating-model/): Design and embed the operating model — roles, rituals, and governance — that makes innovation a permanent part of how your organisation runs.

## Services (previous lineup)

> Older service pages, kept live at their own URLs; superseded by the current lineup above.

- [Innovation Challenge](https://nos.co/services2/innovation-challenge/): Company-wide, time-bound innovation programme that mobilises leadership, managers and employees around a clear call for ideas and turns the best five-plus opportunities into investment-ready cases. (superseded by https://nos.co/services/innovation-challenge/)
- [Venture Challenge](https://nos.co/services2/venture-challenge/): Rally your organisation around a key strategic challenge. Stimulate game-changing innovation, surface internal entrepreneurs, and build the innovation culture you need.
- [Continuous Improvement](https://nos.co/services2/continuous-improvement/): Build a continuous-improvement culture where everyone contributes ideas to optimise workflows, reduce cost, and lift quality across the organisation.
- [License to Innovate](https://nos.co/services2/license-to-innovate/): An entrepreneurship training programme that equips employees with the mindset, tools, and methods of corporate entrepreneurs. (superseded by https://nos.co/services/license-to-innovate/)
- [Innovation Roadmap](https://nos.co/services2/innovation-roadmap/): Align your innovation strategy, portfolio, and execution. Build a roadmap that connects ideas to outcomes and keeps the pipeline moving.
- [Open Innovation](https://nos.co/services2/open-innovation/): Tap into ideas beyond your walls — partners, customers, students, and start-ups — and turn external collaboration into a structured advantage.
- [Incubation](https://nos.co/services2/incubation/): Move validated ideas through structured incubation: scoping, prototyping, business modelling, and the support to bring them to market.
- [Idea Campaigns](https://nos.co/services2/idea-campaigns/): Time-bound, topic-focused idea campaigns that solve specific business problems fast by scoping a clear question, inviting the right people, and converging on the best answers.
- [Innovation Community](https://nos.co/services2/innovation-community/): Build a permanent community of innovators across your organisation — a continuous, low-cost channel for ideas, inspiration and engagement that makes innovation everybody's business.
- [Corporate Entrepreneurship](https://nos.co/services2/corporate-entrepreneurship/): Equip employees and management to think and work the startup way. Train leaders to manage innovation as venture capitalists, develop entrepreneurial skills across the workforce, and establish a corporate accelerator.
- [Digital Transformation](https://nos.co/services2/digital-transformation/): Capture digital opportunities, feature requests, and issues from across the organisation to drive your digital transformation pipeline and program.
- [Sustainability Challenge](https://nos.co/services2/sustainability-challenge/): Tap into the knowledge of your employees and external stakeholders to solve your sustainability challenges — and generate long-term environmental, social and economic gains through collaborative innovation.

## Cases

- [Rallying a workforce around green energy](https://nos.co/cases/orsted-renewable-energy/): As Ørsted shifted from fossil fuels to offshore wind, we helped it tap its own workforce — a company-wide challenge that funded six new green-energy ideas.
- [The idea that opened a new therapeutic area](https://nos.co/cases/widex-innovative-solutions/): Widex's "Next Wave" campaign drew an 80% participation rate — and a winning idea that didn't just improve a product, it opened an entirely new therapeutic area.
- [Reigniting an entrepreneurial DNA](https://nos.co/cases/reignite-kuka-entrepreneurial-dna/): Facing a declining top line, KUKA built a fast, digital innovation process — 495 ideas from a third of the workforce, and a first venture now heading to market.
- [Fast-tracking plant-based start-ups through industry collaboration](https://nos.co/cases/scale-it-up/): Bühler, Cargill, Givaudan and Puris joined forces to find and accelerate plant-based-protein start-ups — and let them keep their IP. One winner raised $7M after the programme.
- [Taking a hackathon digital under lockdown](https://nos.co/cases/husqvarna-innovation/): When the pandemic threatened Husqvarna's annual "Shotgun" hackathon, we moved it online — reaching more people and running it five times since.
- [One idea, a €40M order](https://nos.co/cases/stabilus-innovation-growth/): Stabilus's first global innovation challenge reached the factory floor — 428 ideas, and a winning concept that landed a €40M order.
- [Building an intrapreneurial workforce](https://nos.co/cases/covestro-collaboration/): Beyond a start-up challenge, Covestro ran 30+ idea camps across three continents to put entrepreneurial skills in everyday employees' hands.
- [Turning scientists into entrepreneurs](https://nos.co/cases/dsm-success-story/): Targeted campaigns invited around 450 scientists and engineers to tackle two global challenges — producing 150+ ideas and five that won funding.
- [Backing South African social entrepreneurs](https://nos.co/cases/diageo-market-innovation/): The Diageo Empowerment Trust's Social Tech Startup Challenge helped women- and Black-owned South African start-ups turn ideas into businesses — 271 ideas and 30 working prototypes.
- [Rebuilding a culture of experimentation](https://nos.co/cases/velux-cultural-innovation/): A new CEO set out to revive VELUX's spirit of experimentation — a challenge that drew more than 2,000 ideas in seven languages, half of them from the factory floor.
- [Cutting energy and waste, 341 ideas at a time](https://nos.co/cases/buhler-collaboration/): To hit its sustainability targets, Bühler challenged its people to cut energy and waste by 30% — engaging 5,500 employees, surfacing 341 ideas and accelerating five projects.
- [A global student race to cut carbon](https://nos.co/cases/carbon-footprint-challenge/): Bühler, Covestro and Evonik challenged students worldwide to cut industry's environmental impact — with ideas ranging from coconut-waste board to off-grid desalination.

## Cases (previous lineup)

> Older case studies, kept live at their own URLs; superseded by the current lineup above.

- [Bühler](https://nos.co/cases2/buhler-collaboration/): Driving cultural change by providing training in idea development and corporate entrepreneurship to a wide range of employees. (superseded by https://nos.co/cases/buhler-collaboration/)
- [Carbon Footprint Challenge](https://nos.co/cases2/carbon-footprint-challenge/): Companies and students with a passion for the planet unite to reduce the environmental impact of manufacturing and industrial processes.  (superseded by https://nos.co/cases/carbon-footprint-challenge/)
- [Covestro](https://nos.co/cases2/covestro-collaboration/): Driving cultural change by providing training in idea development and corporate entrepreneurship to a wide range of employees. (superseded by https://nos.co/cases/covestro-collaboration/)
- [DIAGEO](https://nos.co/cases2/diageo-market-innovation/): South African entrepreneurs create social impact and stimulate economic growth within their community.  (superseded by https://nos.co/cases/diageo-market-innovation/)
- [DSM](https://nos.co/cases2/dsm-success-story/): Solving highly complex challenges through targeted idea campaigns. (superseded by https://nos.co/cases/dsm-success-story/)
- [Husqvarna Group](https://nos.co/cases2/husqvarna-innovation/): How Husqvarna Group used the pandemic to digitise, accelerate and spread innovation in their organisation (superseded by https://nos.co/cases/husqvarna-innovation/)
- [Ørsted](https://nos.co/cases2/orsted-renewable-energy/): Ørsted is the largest energy provider in Denmark and the largest off-shore wind operator in the world, operating within B2B and B2C markets and employing 6,000 people globally.  (superseded by https://nos.co/cases/orsted-renewable-energy/)
- [KUKA](https://nos.co/cases2/reignite-kuka-entrepreneurial-dna/): Developing a new digital and agile innovation process that focuses on delivering commercially successful ideas. (superseded by https://nos.co/cases/reignite-kuka-entrepreneurial-dna/)
- [Scale It Up!](https://nos.co/cases2/scale-it-up/): A consortium of food industry leader team up to accelerate innovation and build new partnerships through a joint open innovation initiative (superseded by https://nos.co/cases/scale-it-up/)
- [Stabilus](https://nos.co/cases2/stabilus-innovation-growth/): Kicking off “innovation” as a central function with a global innovation challenge in an organisation with a high number of blue-collar employees.  (superseded by https://nos.co/cases/stabilus-innovation-growth/)
- [The VELUX Group](https://nos.co/cases2/velux-cultural-innovation/): How an innovation challenge became the fly wheel in reigniting the innovation culture.  (superseded by https://nos.co/cases/velux-cultural-innovation/)
- [WIDEX](https://nos.co/cases2/widex-innovative-solutions/): Widex set out to create value for end-users and hearing care professionals. Surprisingly, the winning idea of the “NEXT WAVE” idea campaign led them to a whole new therapeutic area (superseded by https://nos.co/cases/widex-innovative-solutions/)

## Articles

- [Behind Many Failed Innovation Efforts Sits a Beautiful Dashboard](https://nos.co/articles/why-dashboards-hide-innovation-failures/): Most corporate innovation failures don’t happen because leaders don’t care. They happen when dashboards replace leadership.
- [Disciplined Simplicity – Building Decision-Ready Portfolio Overview](https://nos.co/articles/building-decision-ready-portfolio-overview/): A Short Q&A with Sebastian Cadell
- [Building Your Innovation Pipeline & Portfolio Overview](https://nos.co/articles/building-your-innovation-pipeline-portfolio-overview/): The 6 dimensions that drive smarter portfolio decisions
- [The Hidden Flaw in Project Portfolio Management Tools](https://nos.co/articles/the-hidden-flaw-in-project-portfolio-management-tools/): How Linking Too Tightly to the Execution Layer Breaks the PMO
- [Getting Your Organisation Licensed to Innovate – A Short Q&A with Jesper Müller-Krogstrup](https://nos.co/articles/getting-your-organisation-licensed-to-innovate/): We caught up with Jesper Müller-Krogstrup, CEO & Partner at Nosco, after the License to Innovate webinar for a quick Q&A. In this conversation, Jesper shares practical insights on 
- [How to Run Successful AI Idea Campaigns – A Short Q&A with Morten Benn](https://nos.co/articles/how-to-run-successful-ai-idea-campaigns/): After a recent webinar, we caught up with Morten Benn, Partner at Nosco, for a short Q&A on how organisations can run successful AI idea campaigns. Drawing on real-world experience
- [Aligning Promise and Practice – Using the ISO 56002 Innovation leadership framework](https://nos.co/articles/aligning-promise-and-practice/): Most companies talk about innovation, but few achieve it systematically. ISO 56002 provides the framework to transform innovation from aspiration into structured business impact. H
- [AI Projects are failing – Here’s why and what to do about it](https://nos.co/articles/ai-projects-are-failing/): An Oxymoron, a Help, or a Bureaucratic Nightmare? Most AI projects fail—but it’s not the tech’s fault. Companies are running “AI theatre,” not real business impact. What if the sol
- [ISO 56002 Innovation Management](https://nos.co/articles/iso-56002-innovation-management/): An Oxymoron, a Help, or a Bureaucratic Nightmare? An Oxymoron, a Help, or a Bureaucratic Nightmare?
- [Do you have a license to innovate?](https://nos.co/articles/license-to-innovate-corporate-innovation-training-program/): Strengthening your growth practices and build innovation capabilities
- [How to get more out of your growth strategy](https://nos.co/articles/get-more-from-growth-strategy/): Growth initiatives often struggle to compete with the immediate demands of today’s business, leaving them sidelined. Discover why this happens and how to strike a better balance fo
- [How to validate your ideas, fast](https://nos.co/articles/validate-ideas/): Most innovators will at some point find themselves in the situation of having a full pipeline of ideas, but with little value being created. Incubation processes can help to effici
- [Let your corporate innovators reach their full potential](https://nos.co/articles/corporate-innovator/): Have you also witnessed too many great ideas and ambitious innovators not being used to their potential? Two recent articles offer an explanation, and we have some advice for you!
- [Empowering people to innovate on the ground and solve problems immediately.](https://nos.co/articles/empowering-people-to-innovate-on-the-ground-and-solve-problems-immediately/): We met with Jesper Müller-Krogstrup, CEO at Nosco, to talk about upskilling and capability building as a way to create a team ready to innovate and eager to learn — and keep learni
- [6 Ways to Encourage Adoption of Idea Management Software](https://nos.co/articles/6-ways-to-encourage-adoption-of-idea-management-software/): 
- [Embracing diversity boosts innovation & financial results](https://nos.co/articles/embracing-diversity/): How diversity encourages a more innovative talent pool and ultimately empowers your employees to reach their full potential
- [Innovation starts with connecting people](https://nos.co/articles/innovation-starts-with-connecting-people/): We met with Sebastian Cadell, COO and Partner at Nosco, to talk about how innovation platforms help organisations remove silos, flatten hierarchies and remove the distance between 
- [The role of innovation in reaching sustainability goals](https://nos.co/articles/the-role-of-innovation-in-reaching-sustainability-goals/): What businesses need to do to become more sustainable and how setting sustainability goals can drive innovation.
- [10 Ways to Create a Culture of Agile Innovation](https://nos.co/articles/10-ways-to-create-a-culture-of-agile-innovation/): More than 70% of organizations have implemented some kind of agile approach to conducting business. But the road to translate agile into success is not always crystal clear. In oth
- [Part 4: Extend: The value of open innovation](https://nos.co/articles/part-4-extend-the-value-of-open-innovation/): Open innovation has become increasingly popular. However, companies often fail to harness the benefits they have hoped for. Get practical insights on how to avoid common pitfalls a
- [How to inspire innovation in a corporate environment](https://nos.co/articles/how-to-inspire-innovation-in-a-corporate-environment/): A culture of innovation can’t thrive by itself when it has to go up against the typical high-performance corporate environment.
- [Who are the innovators in your company and how can you find them?](https://nos.co/articles/who-are-the-innovators-in-your-company-and-how-can-you-find-them/): Innovators within large organisations differ in some important aspects from the traditional entrepreneur. Companies trying to unleash their entrepreneurial talent need to look out 
- [Part 3 – Choose the right ideas to back](https://nos.co/articles/part-3-choose-the-right-ideas-to-back/): A deep dive into the essential innovation practices of choosing the right ideas for your innovation portfolio.
- [Part 2 – Create a shared aspiration for innovation & set quantitative targets](https://nos.co/articles/part-2-create-a-shared-aspiration-for-innovation-set-quantitative-targets/): It is not good enough to just have sky high aspiration. Executives need to set concrete and actionable targets to achieve superior innovation performance.
- [Part 1 – Companies committed to innovation have a 2.4x better profit performance](https://nos.co/articles/part-1-companies-committed-to-innovation-have-a-2-4x-better-profit-performance/): Have you ever had to prove or justify your spending on innovation? Research by McKinsey shows that a high commitment to innovation is correlated to 2.4x better financial performanc
- [Are you ready to kill your darlings?](https://nos.co/articles/are-you-ready-to-kill-your-darlings/): For many innovation managers the real problem is not a lack of ideas, but making informed decisions on which to kill or proceed. Way too often bad ideas linger in the organisation,
- [Debunking the myth of the lone innovator](https://nos.co/articles/debunking-the-myth-of-the-lone-innovator/): The prevalent image of innovators is that of the one of a kind genius in the garage, college dorm or basement. However, transformative innovations usually originate from within lar
- [The secret behind successful innovation managers](https://nos.co/articles/the-secret-behind-successful-innovation-managers/): 5 insights from top innovation managers on how you can elevate your innovation efforts to the next level
- [Key learnings from the corona crisis that will impact our future workshops](https://nos.co/articles/key-learnings-from-the-corona-crisis-that-will-impact-our-future-workshops/): Being forced to work together digitally has given us some valuable learnings to take with us in the future
- [We have digital meetings, but do we collaborate, progress or decide?](https://nos.co/articles/we-have-digital-meetings-but-do-we-collaborate-progress-or-decide/): In times of home quarantine and social distancing, digital meetings have become an essential part of our work. An online platform that supports your digital meetings will help you 
- [How do you innovate, when you cannot meet?](https://nos.co/articles/how-do-you-innovate-when-you-cannot-meet/): The current Corona pandemic highlights how beneficial a digital operation mode can be!
- [How innovation departments stay relevant and avoid downsizing](https://nos.co/articles/how-innovation-departments-stay-relevant-and-avoid-downsizing/): Innovation departments are often first in line in times of downsizing. This raises the question how we as practitioners can show the value of innovation to our organisations
- [Use your innovation challenge to solve your sustainability challenge!](https://nos.co/articles/use-your-innovation-challenge-to-solve-your-sustainability-challenge/): How the innovation challenge can support you in becoming more sustainable while finding high potential ideas and engaging your employees
- [Involve your employees and improve your innovation culture](https://nos.co/articles/involve-your-employees-and-improve-your-innovation-culture/): Why involving your employees can help you creating a sustainable innovation culture of engaged innovators that continuously look for new business ideas
- [Work smarter, not harder](https://nos.co/articles/work-smarter-not-harder/): Why you should involve all your employees in your continuous improvement efforts?
- [Innovation dating for invincible ideas](https://nos.co/articles/innovation-dating-for-invincible-ideas/): What brings people together? Passion - we all know that! But would you believe me if I told you the same is true for corporate entrepreneurs looking to build a team to advance thei
- [Create positive impact & generate new revenue streams](https://nos.co/articles/create-positive-impact-generate-new-revenue-streams/): Global companies including Unilever, Dow, Interface, Adidas and Nike are just a few companies leveraging the power of their organization to solve social and environmental problems 

## Interviews

> The Inside Innovation series — conversations with innovation leaders.

- [Sarah Simon new — MSG Life](https://nos.co/interviews/sarah-simon/): Sarah is Agile Transformation Lead at MSG and is working on shifting a whole organization to an agile mindset and way of working.
- [Allan Edvardsen — VELUX Group](https://nos.co/interviews/allan-edvarsen/): Allan is the Director of Front-End Innovation at VELUX Group. He has over 25 years of experience in working with innovation in a big legacy company.
- [Birgit Reinhofer-Mitterer — Raiffeisen Landesbank Steiermark](https://nos.co/interviews/birgit-reinhofer-mitterer/): With a background in organisational development, Birgit managed to reach an all-time high engagement level in their innovation challenge
- [Carlos Martinez Cristancho — Evonik Industries AG](https://nos.co/interviews/carlos-andres-martinez-cristancho/): Carlos works at the intersection of chemical engineering and open innovation at EVONIK Industries. He strives to connect people across all levels and geographical borders.
- [Carlos Cruz — Iturri](https://nos.co/interviews/carlos-cruz/): Carlos started working as Head of Innovation at Itturi in January 2019. Being young and fairly new to the role, he has a fresh view on things and is able to challenge existing ways
- [Hannes Meixner — Raiffeisen Landesbank Steiermark](https://nos.co/interviews/hannes/): Hannes is not your typical banker. As a veteran in the bank, he has the role of continuously challenging management to take on new ventures.
- [Hans Lercher — Think Big](https://nos.co/interviews/hans-lercher/): As part-time professor and consultant, Hans has synthesized years of experience into a model for improving companies' innovation performance.
- [Justin Anders — Schnellecke Logistics](https://nos.co/interviews/justin-anders/): Justin is a Lean Expert at Schnellecke Logistics and works with continuous improvements and building a community of change agents.
- [Katharina Hilker — Bühler](https://nos.co/interviews/katharina-hilker/): Just out of university and still working as an intern, Katharina and her team of other newcomers to Bühler ended up winning the innovation challenge and realising their idea of a f
- [Lorenz Kramer — Covestro](https://nos.co/interviews/lorenz-kramer/): Lorenz works tirelessly around the clock and throughout the year to build innovation capabilities across the organisation and make innovation everybody's business.
- [Marc Schreiber — Covestro](https://nos.co/interviews/marc-schreiber/): Mark is an experienced marketing professional and product manager with a demonstrated history of working in the chemicals industry. In more than 20 years of working with Covestro, 
- [Marta Canas Ventura — Evonik](https://nos.co/interviews/marta-canas-ventura/): Marta and her team experienced what many intrapreneurs dread: having to close down their project. However, it was an indispensable learning experience for them.
- [Michael Nichols — Bosch](https://nos.co/interviews/michael-nichols/): Michael and his innovation team at Bosch act as a service organisation; sourcing projects from the business and taking them through rapid validation.
- [Nils Michaelis — The LEGO Group](https://nos.co/interviews/nils-michaelis/): Nils is a product marketing and management expert with 15+ years experience from Google, Trustpilot and Bestseller - and now the LEGO Group. His experience ranges from building dig
- [Nicolas Blier-Silvestri — Platypus](https://nos.co/interviews/platypus/): Nico is the founder and CEO of Platypus. He also helped scale some of Denmark's most successful tech start-ups - Trustpilot, Falcon.io, Unity Technologies, Revolut and Peakon.
- [Reyna Bryan — Rainchild Design](https://nos.co/interviews/reyna-bryan/): Reyna is president of RCD Packaging and has a passion for making sustainability a norm. She has engaged the whole packaging value chain in her mission to reduce waste and make pack
- [Sara Maki — Global fin-tech company](https://nos.co/interviews/sara-maki/): With a high focus on her team and a global ambassador network, Sara has managed to run numerous campaigns and impressive results in her role as Head of Innovation Initiatives at a 
- [Sarah Hintermayer — Evonik](https://nos.co/interviews/sarah-hintermayer/): Six months after having started at Evonik, Sarah was selected to be the intrapreneur for an idea she liked but had not conceived herself. In the past three years, the project has m
- [Steen Lindby — ROCKWOOL Group](https://nos.co/interviews/steen-lindby/): With many years of experience in managing innovation, Steen has well-founded advice on how to manage processes and good stories to share.
- [Stefan Ermtraud — Stabilus](https://nos.co/interviews/stefan-ermtraud/): For Stefan Ermtraud, global innovation manager at Stabilus the key to the success of a newly started innovation initiative are strong connections and communications
- [Ulrike Tagscherer — KUKA AG](https://nos.co/interviews/ulrike-tagscherer/): Ulrike is the Chief Innovation Officer at KUKA AG. Her focus is on changing the mindset in a very technology-driven culture.
- [Yannick Gächter — Bühler Group](https://nos.co/interviews/yannick-gachter/): As the director of the Food Application Center of Bühler Group, Yannick is responsible for accelerating innovative solutions by bringing together customers, partners and research.

## Glossary

- [Agile innovation processes](https://nos.co/glossary/agile-innovation-processes/): Learn about Agile Innovation Processes – definition, use cases, and practical examples in innovation with Nosco real examples.
- [Bootcamps](https://nos.co/glossary/bootcamps/): Bootcamps is a key concept in innovation. Discover its definition, use cases, benefits, and practical examples in business and strategy.
- [Brainstorming](https://nos.co/glossary/brainstorming/): Brainstorming is a key concept in innovation. Discover its definition, use cases, benefits, and practical examples in business and strategy.
- [Call for ideas](https://nos.co/glossary/call-for-ideas/): A call for ideas is an announcement used when an organization or person looks for ideas on a specific topic or project. In the field of innovation, it is used to describe the types
- [Collaboration hubs](https://nos.co/glossary/collaboration-hubs/): Brainstorming is an essential concept in innovation. Explore its definition, practical examples, and how it supports creative problem-solving.
- [Corporate entrepreneur](https://nos.co/glossary/corporate-entrepreneur/): A corporate entrepreneur is a person that works on developing new ideas and innovation projects inside an existing organisation. They may be working with the explicit backing of ma
- [Corporate venturing](https://nos.co/glossary/corporate-venturing/): "Corporate Venturing allows companies to innovate by partnering with startups, investing in external ideas, and scaling future-focused solutions."
- [Cross-functional teams](https://nos.co/glossary/cross-functional-teams/): Cross-functional teams combine diverse expertise to shape, validate, and scale innovation by breaking silos and enabling fast collaborative decision-making.
- [Crowdsourcing](https://nos.co/glossary/crowdsourcing/): Crowdsourcing enables organizations to collect ideas and solve problems by engaging large groups of people through open, scalable innovation initiatives.
- [Customer-centric design](https://nos.co/glossary/customer-centric-design/): Customer-centric design puts users at the core of innovation by using feedback, testing, and iteration to create meaningful, and scalable solutions.
- [Data-driven decision making](https://nos.co/glossary/data-driven-decision-making/): Data-driven decision making uses evidence and analytics to prioritize, validate, and scale innovation while aligning actions with real business goals.
- [Design Thinking](https://nos.co/glossary/design-thinking/): Design Thinking is a human-centered process for solving problems through empathy, ideation, prototyping, and testing to create meaningful innovations.
- [Digital transformation](https://nos.co/glossary/digital-transformation/): Digital Transformation is the process of using digital technologies to change how an organisation operates and delivers value — capturing, evaluating and tracking digital opportuni
- [Disruptive innovation](https://nos.co/glossary/disruptive-innovation/): Disruptive innovation transforms industries by introducing accessible alternatives that challenge market leaders and redefine customer expectations.
- [Early-stage prototyping](https://nos.co/glossary/early-stage-prototyping/): Early-stage prototyping lets teams test ideas early through simple models, reducing risk and aligning solutions with real user needs.
- [Employee engagement](https://nos.co/glossary/employee-engagement/): Employee engagement drives innovation by involving people in shaping ideas, validating solutions, and creating ownership through active participation.
- [Employee-driven innovation](https://nos.co/glossary/employee-driven-innovation/): Employee-driven innovation empowers people across the organization to identify challenges, generate solutions, and lead innovation from within.
- [Environmental innovation](https://nos.co/glossary/environmental-innovation/): Environmental innovation develops sustainable solutions that reduce impact, drive transformation, and align business with climate and resource challenges.
- [Fast prototyping](https://nos.co/glossary/fast-prototyping/): Fast prototyping helps teams test and adapt ideas quickly by building rapid models that support learning, validation, and early innovation momentum.
- [Feedback loops](https://nos.co/glossary/feedback-loops/): Feedback loops improve innovation by using real input to refine ideas, validate assumptions, and drive faster, more relevant development cycles.
- [Foresight analysis](https://nos.co/glossary/foresight-analysis/): Foresight analysis helps organizations explore future trends and uncertainties to guide innovation and build more resilient strategies.
- [Gamification](https://nos.co/glossary/gamification/): Gamification boosts engagement in innovation by applying game mechanics to motivate participation, collaboration, and progress toward shared goals.
- [Global collaboration](https://nos.co/glossary/global-collaboration/): Global collaboration connects diverse teams across borders to co-create, share knowledge, and drive scalable innovation through trust and alignment.
- [Green innovation](https://nos.co/glossary/green-innovation/): Green innovation creates sustainable solutions that reduce impact, enable circularity, and align business with environmental transformation.
- [Growth hacking](https://nos.co/glossary/growth-hacking/): Growth hacking helps innovation teams test, validate, and scale ideas quickly through data-driven experiments and continuous optimization.
- [Hackathons](https://nos.co/glossary/hackathons/): Hackathons bring teams together to rapidly generate and test ideas, solve real problems, and fuel innovation through fast, hands-on collaboration.
- [Hypothesis testing](https://nos.co/glossary/hypothesis-testing/): Hypothesis testing helps innovation teams reduce risk by validating assumptions early and learning fast through measurable, evidence-based experiments.
- [Idea campaign](https://nos.co/glossary/idea-campaign/): An Idea Campaign is a time-bound, topic-focused initiative to ideate, screen, develop and validate ideas. It is used to address business or technical problems that require input fr
- [Idea heatmaps](https://nos.co/glossary/idea-heatmaps/): Idea heatmaps help innovation teams prioritize ideas by visualizing impact and feasibility, enabling clearer decisions and alignment across teams.
- [Idea management](https://nos.co/glossary/idea-management/): Idea management is the structured process of managing ideas from ideation through evaluation and refinement to selection. Many companies use an idea management platform to support 
- [Ideation](https://nos.co/glossary/ideation/): Ideation is the creative process of conceiving and shaping new ideas. It includes everything from the first thought or inspiration to the formulation of an idea. In the context of 
- [Inclusive innovation](https://nos.co/glossary/inclusive-innovation/): Inclusive innovation engages diverse voices across teams and regions to co-create solutions, improve relevance, and build stronger innovation cultures.
- [Incremental innovation](https://nos.co/glossary/incremental-innovation/): Incremental innovation improves existing products and processes through small, continuous enhancements that strengthen performance and adaptability.
- [Incubation](https://nos.co/glossary/incubation/): Incubation is the process of taking an idea from concept to an actual product, service or business and testing key-hypotheses about the concept to see, if the product can fit the m
- [Innovation challenge](https://nos.co/glossary/innovation-challenge-glossary/): An innovation challenge can be seen as an extended version of an idea campaign with a more ambitious topic, a wider reach in terms of participants, a greater communication effort, 
- [Innovation community](https://nos.co/glossary/innovation-community/): An Innovation Community is a permanent, organisation-wide network of innovators — a continuous channel for ideas, inspiration and engagement that makes innovation everybody's busin
- [Innovation management](https://nos.co/glossary/innovation-management/): Innovation management describes a structured approach to managing innovation with defined processes, KPIs and governance structures to support it.
- [Innovation pipeline](https://nos.co/glossary/innovation-pipeline/): 
- [Judging panels](https://nos.co/glossary/judging-panels/): Judging panels evaluate and select innovation ideas using expert review and scoring to ensure transparency, strategic fit, and quality decision-making.
- [Knowledge sharing](https://nos.co/glossary/knowledge-sharing/): Knowledge sharing supports innovation by enabling teams to exchange insights, scale learning, and build on existing ideas across the organization.
- [KPI tracking](https://nos.co/glossary/kpi-tracking/): KPI tracking links innovation to measurable outcomes by defining, monitoring, and acting on key metrics throughout the innovation process.
- [Leadership commitment](https://nos.co/glossary/leadership-commitment/): Leadership commitment drives innovation by aligning resources, strategy, and behaviors — signaling that innovation is a shared, long-term priority.
- [Learning organization](https://nos.co/glossary/learning-organization/): A learning organization drives innovation through feedback, experimentation, and continuous improvement — turning knowledge into long-term impact.
- [Market validation](https://nos.co/glossary/market-validation/): Market validation tests whether an innovation meets real customer needs, reducing risk and informing product-market fit before scaling.
- [Mentorship programs](https://nos.co/glossary/mentorship-programs/): Mentorship programs support innovation by building confidence, accelerating learning, and connecting employees through guided, growth-focused relationships.
- [Networking events](https://nos.co/glossary/networking-events/): Networking events support innovation by connecting people across functions and geographies, enabling collaboration, learning, and shared ownership.
- [Open collaboration](https://nos.co/glossary/open-collaboration/): Open collaboration enables shared innovation across teams and partners by removing silos and building trust, transparency, and co-ownership.
- [Open Innovation](https://nos.co/glossary/open-innovation-glossary/): 
- [Pitch session](https://nos.co/glossary/pitch-session/): During a pitch session, idea teams present their ideas to a panel and answer potential questions. The panel then decides whether or not to invest in the idea.
- [Pretotyping](https://nos.co/glossary/pretotyping/): Pretotyping helps teams validate demand early by simulating ideas quickly, enabling fast, low-cost learning before building full prototypes.
- [Problem-solution fit](https://nos.co/glossary/problem-solution-fit/): 
- [Product-market fit](https://nos.co/glossary/product-market-fit/): The term “product-market fit” refers to the match between the actual solution (product, service, business model, etc.) and the market it addresses. Essentially, it is a
- [Prototyping workshops](https://nos.co/glossary/prototyping-workshops/): Prototyping workshops enable teams to build and test early ideas together, driving fast learning, alignment, and innovation momentum.
- [Quick iterations](https://nos.co/glossary/quick-iterations/): Quick iterations drive innovation by enabling fast, repeatable cycles of testing and learning that reduce risk and improve solutions early.
- [Resilience strategies](https://nos.co/glossary/resilience-strategies/): Resilience strategies help organizations adapt to change and uncertainty by building flexible, learning-driven, and future-ready innovation systems.
- [Reverse innovation](https://nos.co/glossary/reverse-innovation/): Reverse innovation brings ideas from emerging markets into developed ones, driving inclusive growth and unlocking scalable, resource-smart solutions.
- [Roadmap development](https://nos.co/glossary/roadmap-development/): Roadmap development turns innovation strategy into action by aligning teams around clear priorities, milestones, and execution paths.
- [Scaling](https://nos.co/glossary/scaling/): Scaling innovation turns validated ideas into real impact by expanding solutions across teams, systems, and markets with the right support and culture.
- [Screening](https://nos.co/glossary/screening/): Screening describes the process of evaluating ideas against a set of criteria and deciding whether ideas should progress/move forward in an innovation initiative.
- [Social innovation](https://nos.co/glossary/social-innovation/): Social innovation creates sustainable solutions for societal and environmental challenges, combining impact, inclusion, and long-term business value.
- [Stakeholder engagement](https://nos.co/glossary/stakeholder-engagement/): Stakeholder engagement strengthens innovation by involving key voices early, building trust, and improving alignment, ownership, and outcomes.
- [Strategic alignment](https://nos.co/glossary/strategic-alignment/): Strategic alignment ensures innovation efforts are tied to business goals, enabling focus, clarity, and long-term impact across the organization.
- [Sustainability strategies](https://nos.co/glossary/sustainability-strategies/): Sustainability strategies guide innovation toward long-term environmental, social, and business impact — helping organizations lead through responsibility.
- [Team building](https://nos.co/glossary/team-building/): Team building strengthens innovation by creating trust, collaboration, and alignment within cross-functional teams driving ideas forward.
- [Technology-driven innovation](https://nos.co/glossary/technology-driven-innovation/): Technology-driven innovation uses emerging tech to create transformative solutions — blending technical potential with strategic and user relevance.
- [User-driven solutions](https://nos.co/glossary/user-driven-solutions/): User-driven solutions are built around real user needs, combining feedback, testing, and co-creation to ensure relevance and long-term impact.
- [Validation](https://nos.co/glossary/validation/): Validation is the process of testing hypotheses to gain insights into whether an idea will be successful or not. This can be done through interviews, observations and experiments, 
- [Venture challenges](https://nos.co/glossary/venture-challenges/): Venture challenges unlock bold new business ideas from within by guiding teams through structured validation, pitching, and entrepreneurial development.
- [Vision mapping](https://nos.co/glossary/vision-mapping/): Vision mapping aligns teams around future goals by turning strategic ambition into visual frameworks that guide innovation and decision-making.
- [Workshops](https://nos.co/glossary/workshops/): Workshops are structured, time-bound sessions designed to bring together diverse stakeholders for collaborative problem-solving, idea generation, planning, or decision-making. In t
- [Year-round idea channels](https://nos.co/glossary/year-round-idea-channels/): Year-round idea channels enable continuous innovation by giving employees and teams an always-on space to share and develop ideas collaboratively.
- [Zero-waste initiatives](https://nos.co/glossary/zero-waste-initiatives/): Zero-waste initiatives drive circular innovation by eliminating waste, rethinking materials, and embedding sustainability into product and process design.

## Help center

> Product documentation for the Nosco platform (mirrored from help.nos.co so it's readable by AI assistants).

- [@ to mention people and # to reference ideas](https://nos.co/help/to-mention-people-and-to-reference-ideas/): We are happy to finally release the feature almost all of you have been asking for.
- [Activate your account](https://nos.co/help/activate-your-account/): We hope this article has been useful for you.
- [Activate, engage and follow up with users](https://nos.co/help/activate-engage-and-follow-up-with-users/): When running idea campaigns or any other initiative it is crucial to keep your audience active and engaged. The Nosco platform provides you with tools to easily find, re-engage and
- [Add a sponsor and run more successful campaigns](https://nos.co/help/add-a-sponsor-and-run-more-successful-campaigns/): It is crucial to anchor your idea campaigns in executive management. Sponsorship from executives give your initiative credibility as well as help you to create momentum and make su
- [Add images & videos to your idea](https://nos.co/help/add-images-and-videos-to-your-idea/): Note: If you experience problems with uploading an image, try to change the filename to something simple.
- [Add or remove a channel team](https://nos.co/help/add-or-remove-a-channel-team/): Sponsorship from executives give your initiative credibility and help you to create momentum.
- [Add, remove & invite users to a channel](https://nos.co/help/add-remove-and-invite-users-to-a-channel/): Tip:Use or get inspired by ourbest practice invitation message
- [Apply statuses to ideas](https://nos.co/help/apply-statuses-to-ideas/): Idea statuses provide you with an overview of your idea portfolio by enabling you to see at which stage in your process your ideas are.
- [Archive and Un-Archive a Channel](https://nos.co/help/archive-and-un-archive-a-channel/): Note: When you archive a channel, it is not deleted and members can, therefore, still see the ideas. If you don't want them to see the ideas, hide them. Learn how to hide ideashere
- [Assign & remove evaluator rights](https://nos.co/help/assign-and-remove-evaluator-rights/): Before you can assign evaluators, you need to set up at least one evaluation team. Create as many teams as you want and make the right people evaluate the right ideas.
- [Assign admin rights to a user](https://nos.co/help/assign-admin-rights-to-a-user/): The platform admin is responsible for setting the scene and managing the entire platform. As such the platform admin has access and can change all parts of the platform. We, theref
- [Assign channel admin rights](https://nos.co/help/assign-channel-admin-rights/): The channel admin is responsible for managing one or several channels. The admin rights are limited to these channels.
- [Assign platform admin rights](https://nos.co/help/assign-platform-admin-rights/): The platform admin is responsible for setting the scene and managing the entire platform. As such the platform admin can change all parts of the platform. We, therefore, recommend 
- [Automatically assign ideas to evaluation team](https://nos.co/help/automatically-assign-ideas-to-evaluation-team/): To automatically assign ideas to evaluation teams, you have to set up some rules.
- [Best practice - Call for ideas](https://nos.co/help/best-practice-call-for-ideas/): Idea campaigns are a great way to mobilise the organisation and fill up your idea pipeline with high quality ideas that can be turned into projects.
- [Best practice - Manage users](https://nos.co/help/best-practice-manage-users/): Big companies are in a constant state of change. New people join, some move internally, and others say good-bye.
- [Categorise ideas with tags](https://nos.co/help/categorise-ideas-with-tags/): Tags are a great way to organise and manage ideas. Easily find and identify the right ideas to work with and export for your reports.
- [Change idea author](https://nos.co/help/change-idea-author/): We hope this article has been useful for you.
- [Change several idea authors](https://nos.co/help/change-several-idea-authors/): We hope this article has been useful for you.
- [Change the email that your platform sends from](https://nos.co/help/change-the-email-that-your-platform-sends-from/): One of the most important factors in whether an email is opened or not is the sender's name. The sender's name is what will be displayed in the form field of the user's email clien
- [Change the notification settings](https://nos.co/help/change-the-notification-settings/): We hope this article has been useful for you.
- [Change the sender name of your messages](https://nos.co/help/change-the-sender-name-of-your-messages/): One of the most important factors in whether people open your mail or not is the sender's name. The sender's name is what gets displayed in the "from field" of the user's email cli
- [Change the visual identify of the platform](https://nos.co/help/change-the-visual-identify-of-the-platform/): We hope this article has been useful for you.
- [Change your password](https://nos.co/help/change-your-password/): We hope this article has been useful for you.
- [Channel Owner Guide - A guide to setup and manage your channels](https://nos.co/help/channel-owner-guide-a-guide-to-setup-and-manage-your-channels/): Train and onboard your channel owner with the Nosco Channel Guide.
- [Choose an Idea Template That Creates Relevant and High Quality Ideas](https://nos.co/help/choose-an-idea-template-that-creates-relevant-and-high-quality-ideas/): The idea template guides your employees in creating an idea. Choosing the right template is critical for the success of your initiatives as it ensures that your employees submit re
- [Contact Support](https://nos.co/help/contact-support/): We are sorry to hear you are having problem with the platform. Your channel contact (on the About page of the channel) is always your first line of support. But if you are in any w
- [Control if authors can edit ideas](https://nos.co/help/control-if-authors-can-edit-ideas/): On the Nosco Platform, you can control whether idea authors can edit their ideas. The setting only applies to authors, admins can still edit the idea.
- [Cookies](https://nos.co/help/cookies/): The Nosco platform is a web-based product, and needs cookies for its functionality.
- [Copy a channel](https://nos.co/help/copy-a-channel/): The new copy channel feature makes it easier than ever to start a new project. It allows you to copy already existing channels, including their description, stages, templates, and 
- [Copy an existing channel](https://nos.co/help/copy-an-existing-channel/): We hope this article has been useful for you.
- [Create & delete evaluation teams](https://nos.co/help/create-and-delete-evaluation-teams/): Before you can assign evaluators, you need to set up at least one evaluation team. Create as many teams as you want and make the right people evaluate the right ideas.
- [Create & invite new users](https://nos.co/help/create-and-invite-new-users/): Note: You can copy a list of users directly from the "To" field in Outlook or from Excel.
- [Create a channel](https://nos.co/help/create-a-channel/): The first section are the stage settings. Here you can change the following:
- [Create a channel process](https://nos.co/help/create-a-channel-process/): Stages allow you to create a custom workflow for each of your channels and get a visual overview of your idea pipeline. To set up a process, you need to set up at least 2 stages. R
- [Create an idea](https://nos.co/help/create-an-idea/): Note: You can also save your idea for later by clicking "Save as draft".
- [Create an info page in top navigation](https://nos.co/help/create-an-info-page-in-top-navigation/): This article will help you to create a new info page in the top navigation of the Nosco platform.An info page can for example contain:- Additional information to your innovation in
- [Create your first channel](https://nos.co/help/create-your-first-channel/): Add evaluation teams - Add evaluators and the ideas they should evaluate.
- [Create your first idea](https://nos.co/help/create-your-first-idea/): Note: You can also save your idea for later by clicking "Save as draft".
- [Customise Your Login Page](https://nos.co/help/customise-your-login-page/): Tip: When using a custom image, it is recommended to use a square picture (eg 640 x 640px) with an aspect ratio 1:1 in jpeg or png format.
- [Delete a user](https://nos.co/help/delete-a-user/): We hope this article has been useful for you.
- [Delete ideas](https://nos.co/help/delete-ideas/): Only platform or channel admins can delete ideas. Reach out to them, if you want your idea to be deleted from the platform.
- [Delete your idea](https://nos.co/help/delete-your-idea/): Please note, that due to security reasons you are not able to delete ideas yourself. If you wish to withdraw or delete your idea, contact the platform manager.
- [Distributed Evaluations](https://nos.co/help/distributed-evaluations/): Based on your great feedback we gave the evaluation feature a complete overhaul. Evaluating ideas has never been easier and more efficient.
- [Download engagement reports](https://nos.co/help/download-engagement-reports/): The Nosco platform enables you to get an overview of the user activity and engagement. Use the export function to download user engagement statistics such as the amount of user:
- [Download user report](https://nos.co/help/download-user-report/): As a platform admin, you can download a list with important information about the users of your platform. The user report includes e.g.:
- [Duplicate an idea](https://nos.co/help/duplicate-an-idea/): In some cases, you might have to duplicate an idea to another channel.
- [Edit a channel](https://nos.co/help/edit-a-channel/): The first section are the stage settings. Here you can change the following:
- [Edit a channel (legacy)](https://nos.co/help/edit-a-channel-legacy/): Add evaluation teams - Add evaluators and the ideas they should evaluate.
- [Edit your ideas](https://nos.co/help/edit-your-ideas/): We hope this article has been useful for you.
- [Enable direct video upload](https://nos.co/help/enable-direct-video-upload/): You can directly upload videos from your computer thanks to a video integration with our video hosting partner VIMEO and TwentyThree.
- [Enable Public Sign-up](https://nos.co/help/enable-public-sign-up/): If you want to use Public Sign-up please note that for security reasons, we ask you to contact Noscoso that we can make Public Sign-Up available for you.
- [Evaluate Ideas](https://nos.co/help/evaluate-ideas/): We hope this article has been useful for you.
- [Evaluation Guide - Brief your evaluators](https://nos.co/help/evaluation-guide-brief-your-evaluators/): Brief your evaluators on how to evaluate ideas.
- [Export an idea one-pager](https://nos.co/help/export-an-idea-one-pager/): Get a quick overview of all ideas in your portfolio by directly downloading ideas as one pager in PDF format.
- [Export ideas](https://nos.co/help/export-ideas/): Tip: Filter by Spaces, Channels, Tags and much more. Learn more about the filter here.
- [Export ideas & user lists](https://nos.co/help/export-ideas-and-user-lists/): Tip: Filter by Spaces, Channels, Tags and much more. Learn more about the filter here.
- [Field Guide - How to Run Successful Idea Campaigns](https://nos.co/help/field-guide-how-to-run-successful-idea-campaigns/): Once the idea platform is up and running, it's to plan and execute idea campaigns that are engaging to be a part of and that create valuable results.
- [Follow up with evaluators](https://nos.co/help/follow-up-with-evaluators/): The platform allows you to easily send out reminders and follow-up emails.
- [Form a strong idea team](https://nos.co/help/form-a-strong-idea-team/): A strong team will increase your chances of advancing with your idea. Diversity of your team is a great advantage. When assembling your team, you should strive to combine people wi
- [Global Dashboard](https://nos.co/help/global-dashboard/): Get a full overview of your platform activity across channels. See how ideas, likes and comments are progressing and how many users have visited the platform.
- [Group & manage user with user labels](https://nos.co/help/group-and-manage-user-with-user-labels/): User labels allow you to group and manage people in e.g. country, departments, functions, etc. They help you to easily identify specific groups and efficiently invite them to chann
- [Group and organise channels in spaces](https://nos.co/help/group-and-organise-channels-in-spaces/): Spaces allow you to organise and group your channels e.g. business unit, country, use case, etc.
- [Hide users from each other](https://nos.co/help/hide-users-from-each-other/): Sometimes when you are working on a platform with Public sign-up enabled, you may want to hide user information and their activity on the platform from each other.
- [How to Boost the Innovation Culture in Your Organisation](https://nos.co/help/how-to-boost-the-innovation-culture-in-your-organisation/): Innovation is a top priority for companies around the world. How do you kick start innovation in your organisation and build the innovation culture?
- [How to Submit Feature Requests for Nosco?](https://nos.co/help/how-to-submit-feature-requests-for-nosco/): Making your work with the Nosco platform more efficient and fun is very important to us. We want to hear your ideas and suggestions on how we can improve the Nosco Platform!
- [Idea One Pager](https://nos.co/help/idea-one-pager/): Get a quick overview of all ideas in your portfolio by directly downloading ideas as one pager in PDF format.
- [Idea Summary](https://nos.co/help/idea-summary/): Use the following template to provide the idea authors some guidance on how to formulate a good and compelling idea summary.
- [Idea Template](https://nos.co/help/idea-template/): Give your idea a short, catchy and descriptive title.
- [Import Ideas](https://nos.co/help/import-ideas/): Sometimes you might have ideas from outside the Nosco platform that you would like to upload to the platform. You can do this, if you capture the ideas in Excel.
- [Improved User Interface](https://nos.co/help/improved-user-interface/): The new user interface comes with great improvements of the usability of the platform and allows
- [Improved way of managing ideas](https://nos.co/help/improved-way-of-managing-ideas/): Find and manage ideas easier and faster in the new admin idea list.
- [Introducing Channel Dashboard](https://nos.co/help/introducing-channel-dashboard/): Get a full overview of your channel activity, track its progress and take action with the new channel dashboard.
- [Introducing Global Dashboard](https://nos.co/help/introducing-global-dashboard/): Get a full overview of your platform activity across channels. See how ideas, likes and comments are progressing and how many users have visited the platform.
- [Introducing Workflows](https://nos.co/help/introducing-workflows/): Create a custom workflow for each of your channels and get  a visual overview of your idea pipeline by using the new stages feature.
- [Invitation Email](https://nos.co/help/invitation-email/): A compelling invitation is essential to make your next initiative a full on success. A well written invitation evokes interest and ensures high participation in your initiatives.
- [Invite users to a channel](https://nos.co/help/invite-users-to-a-channel/): Tip:Use or get inspired by our best practice invitation message
- [Invite users to the platform](https://nos.co/help/invite-users-to-the-platform/): After you have added new users to the platform, you need to invite them to the platform.
- [Make ideas confidential with the hidden status](https://nos.co/help/make-ideas-confidential-with-the-hidden-status-360015261312/): Sometimes ideas need to be hidden from the user level. May it be because of IP rights or confidentiality reasons. Nosco provides you with an easy way of hiding ideas - the hidden s
- [Make user labels public](https://nos.co/help/make-user-labels-public/): Once you have added user labels to users on your platform, you can make them visible for everyone.
- [Manage evaluation results](https://nos.co/help/manage-evaluation-results/): Export the evaluation scores for more elaborate sorting and filtering.
- [Message users](https://nos.co/help/message-users/): After you have added new users to the platform, you need to invite them to the platform.
- [Mobilise and Keep People Engaged](https://nos.co/help/mobilise-and-keep-people-engaged/): Mobilising a critical mass of people and keeping them engaged is one of the key success factors in running a collaborative innovation initiative. Companies that are not succeeding 
- [Move ideas from one stage to another](https://nos.co/help/move-ideas-from-one-stage-to-another/): Tip:Use the filter and tags to easily find the ideas you want to move on.
- [New Notifications - Comment on a Comment](https://nos.co/help/new-notifications-comment-on-a-comment/): Get notified when someone comments on your comment.
- [Nosco on your mobile device](https://nos.co/help/nosco-on-your-mobile-device/): To have an easy access to your innovation platform through your smart devices, you can save the Nosco platform on your iPhone and iPad home screen. As a result, you will have an ap
- [Password Requirements](https://nos.co/help/password-requirements/): We hope this article has been useful for you.
- [Personalise your user profile](https://nos.co/help/personalise-your-user-profile/): Updating your user profile with a bit about yourself, who you are and what you do, can be
- [Pin a channel to the top of the channel list](https://nos.co/help/pin-a-channel-to-the-top-of-the-channel-list/): When a channel is featured, it is pinned to the top of the channel list and will not move downwards, when a new channel is added to the platform.
- [Platform Invitation](https://nos.co/help/platform-invitation/): Dear %recipient.fname% %recipient.lname%
- [Protips for a good idea](https://nos.co/help/protips-for-a-good-idea/): Even the best idea is only as good as its presentation. The process of writing your idea summary will help you crystallise your idea.
- [Reset your password](https://nos.co/help/reset-your-password/): We hope this article has been useful for you.
- [See previous evaluations](https://nos.co/help/see-previous-evaluations/): It is now possible to see previous evaluations of an idea in the Evaluate tab.
- [Set a deadline for idea sharing](https://nos.co/help/set-a-deadline-for-idea-sharing/): When you set an idea submission deadline, the stage will close for idea submission automatically on the date set.
- [Set up an Evaluation](https://nos.co/help/set-up-an-evaluation/): It is now possible to set up different evaluations for each stage within a process.
- [Set up and manage the idea submission form](https://nos.co/help/set-up-and-manage-the-idea-submission-form/): --------------------------------------## Setting Up the Idea Submission Form
- [Setting up & downloading heat maps](https://nos.co/help/setting-up-and-downloading-heat-maps/): Making informed decisions about new opportunities can be complex, involving multiple stakeholders and selection criteria. To simplify this process, we've introduced the heat map—a 
- [Setup the platform](https://nos.co/help/setup-the-platform/): You will end up in the general settings of the platform where you can:
- [Share, download & print your idea](https://nos.co/help/share-download-and-print-your-idea/): From the Nosco platform, you can easily share or export your idea.
- [Sign up with Facebook, Google and LinkedIn](https://nos.co/help/sign-up-with-facebook-google-and-linkedin/): It has never been easier to involve people from outside your organisation thanks to the new Social Sign Up feature.
- [Single Sign-On (SSO)](https://nos.co/help/single-sign-on-sso/): If your company has an SSO solution in place, this can be integrated with the Nosco platform.
- [SSO & Provisioning preparation checklist](https://nos.co/help/sso-and-provisioning-preparation-checklist/): Before setting up SSO and SCIM Provisioning, it's important to be clear on the target audience of a Nosco platform.
- [Stay updated](https://nos.co/help/stay-updated/): In your activity feed, you get an stay updated about all the ideas, channel and people you follow. The activity feed works in the same way you might know from other social platform
- [Track user engagement](https://nos.co/help/track-user-engagement/): Get a full overview of your channel and platform activity, track progress and take action with the channel and the global dashboard.
- [Unsubscribe from ideas, channels & notifications](https://nos.co/help/unsubscribe-from-ideas-channels-and-notifications/): To unfollow an idea, click on All Ideas in the top navigation and then click on the checkmark-icon on the right bottom corner of the idea you want to unfollow. When the icon turns 
- [Update existing users & restore previously deleted users](https://nos.co/help/update-existing-users-and-restore-previously-deleted-users/): Have you accidentally deleted a user or do you want to restore previously deleted users? Here is how you do it.
- [Update your idea](https://nos.co/help/update-your-idea/): Sometimes, when your idea has been moved forward to another stage, you need to update it with additional information. You will be notified via mail when your idea needs to be updat
- [Update your user profile](https://nos.co/help/update-your-user-profile/): Updating your user profile with a bit about yourself, who you are and what you do, can be
- [User Guide - Onboard and train your crowd](https://nos.co/help/user-guide-onboard-and-train-your-crowd/): Train and onboard your user base with the Nosco User Guide.
- [User provisioning with SCIM](https://nos.co/help/user-provisioning-with-scim/): Nosco supports SCIM for automatic provisioning of users. This works in combination with Single Sign On to automate user management on the platform.
- [VIMEO - Video Integration](https://nos.co/help/vimeo-video-integration/): Directly upload videos from your computer to the Nosco platform with the new VIMEO integration.
- [Welcome to Nosco - A guide to get started with Nosco](https://nos.co/help/welcome-to-nosco-a-guide-to-get-started-with-nosco/): The Welcome to Nosco - Guide introduces you to Nosco and our platform.
- [What are channels?](https://nos.co/help/what-are-channels/): Channels are the central element of the Nosco platform.
- [What are processes and stages?](https://nos.co/help/what-are-processes-and-stages/): Stages are steps in a process and give you a progression to manage idea and innovation pipelines in a channel.
- [What browsers do we support?](https://nos.co/help/what-browsers-do-we-support/): In many cases, error messages occur when your browser is not up to date.
- [What is a channel?](https://nos.co/help/what-is-a-channel/): Channels are the central element of the Nosco platform.
- [You can't login? What to do?](https://nos.co/help/you-can-t-login-what-to-do/): We hope this article has been useful for you.
- [You cannot find your idea?](https://nos.co/help/you-cannot-find-your-idea/): Go to your drafts, by clicking Drafts in the left side menu.
- [You get an error message/ the site doesn't load?](https://nos.co/help/you-get-an-error-message-the-site-doesn-t-load/): In many cases, error messages occur when your browser is not up to date.

## Reference pages

- [Academy](https://nos.co/academy/): Nosco Academy — practical training courses for innovation managers, intrapreneurs, and teams running real innovation initiatives.
- [Legal notice](https://nos.co/legal-notice/): Legal notice for Nosco Aps — company details, executive management, board members, and external link policy.
- [Privacy policy](https://nos.co/privacy-policy/): Nosco's privacy policy — how we collect, use, protect and handle your personal information.