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Turn employee ideas into business impact — without leaving Microsoft Teams

Employee ideas shouldn’t need a new tool. With the leading Sideways 6 app for Teams, they don’t. 

Used by 100,000s of employees everyday

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Driving Results

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Instant adoption

Fully native to Microsoft Teams, get 70% more ideas right away by engaging your team on a tool they use every day.

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Simplified process

Easily manage more ideas—gather submissions, prioritise, and track progress—all within Microsoft Teams.

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Business impact

Create shared ownership, generate new revenue, save time and costs and increase employee engagement.

Here's how it works

1. Create idea campaigns

Initiate campaigns focused on key business or team challenges. Customize campaign questions to improve idea quality and streamline workflows for a smoother process.

 

💡 Launch always-on, or time-bound campaigns to suit your needs.

 

1 Create

2. Capture ideas

Discover the best solutions to your challenges - big or small. Make idea sharing interactive with likes, comments, and voting. Keep everyone engaged, informed, and involved every step of the way.

 

💡Voting is a great way to automatically shortlist ideas

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3. Update your team

Save time with automated native notifications and simple tracking. Celebrate milestones, gamify the process, and update employees at every stage of the journey.

💡Promote fresh ideas to drive momentum and encourage participation

3 Update

4. Shortlist and review

Use crowd review (voting and liking) to shortlist ideas to be reviewed by your campaign manager or subject matter expert.

💡Create review stage time to keep ideas moving

4 Review

5. Implement great ideas

Easily notify employees when their ideas are delivered, sharing how their contributions drive meaningful results.

💡Measure direct idea impact by time / cost saved, revenue generated

5 Implement

Do more with AI (Enterprise Plan)

Leverage Sideways 6 AI to streamline idea management effortlessly.

 

Automatically enhance idea quality, reduce duplicates, and identify common themes, so you can focus on what matters - bringing the best ideas to life.

 

Save time, improve engagement, and make smarter decisions with AI-powered insights.

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Free trial available

 

Start a 14-day free trial. No upfront cost and gain access to all of our Lite features, listed below, right away.

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Find a plan to suit your needs

Big impact, smart spend.

Whether you're trialling ideas for the first time or levelling up a proven programme, our plans are designed to deliver value without breaking the bank.

 
 
 
Feature Details

Lite Plan

Quick and easy solution for small teams

Enterprise Plan

Large companies driving big change at scale

🚀 Campaign Management Lite Enterprise
Number of users Up to 500 500+
Campaign creation
Branded campaigns, custom workflows, etc.
Custom campaign audience
Customize campaign question, add additional questions, custom workflow and more

Includes custom audiences
Anonymous submissions
Give the option of anonymous submission to users
Communities
Additional dedicated spaces to organize campaigns by departments, regions, and business units

Limited to 2

Unlimited
👍 Engagement Lite Enterprise
User interaction
Likes, comments, voting
Automated notifications
Updates on ideas and campaigns
Campaign updates
Announce key milestones, deadlines, or important moments in a campaign
Campaign news
Automated, scheduled updates to keep audiences informed of ongoing activity (e.g. new ideas, votes, comments)
💡 Idea Management Lite Enterprise
Idea stages & status
Customisable workflows

Bulk management via idea management platform
Advanced idea management
Split, merge, private notes, tags, owner assignment, bulk management and more

Via Sideways 6 Idea Management Platform
Automations
Automate idea management workflows and communications

via Sideways 6 idea management platform
🗳️ Shortlisting Lite Enterprise
Voting
Progress and prioritise the best ideas by number of likes, votes, comments and/or shares
Subject Matter Expert Review
Automatically route ideas to the right experts for review at selected stages to their preferred channel

Simple review management and automations via Sideways 6 idea management platform
📊 Analytics Lite Enterprise
Built-in analytics
Monitor campaign engagement, bottlenecks, business impact and key trends

via Sideways 6 idea management platform
Data export
CSV export

via Sideways 6 idea management platform
Read API
Pull data via API to create customized PowerBI dashboards

via Sideways 6 idea management platform
✨ AI Capabilities Lite Enterprise
Improve my idea
Increase idea quality without losing the human touch
Similar ideas
Reduces duplicates at the point of submission
AI Search
Find ideas on a specific topic, problem or keyword
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AI Auto-populate
Categorises ideas for you, in seconds

via Sideways 6 Idea Management Platform
🎧 Customer Support Lite Enterprise
Customer Service
Support level

email support

live support plus dedicated CSM
 
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End-to-end idea management - how it works

Employees engage on Microsoft Teams

Employees share and collaborate on ideas, respond to challenges and receive updates on the Ideas app for Microsoft Teams.

Available on Lite and Enterprise plans.

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Powerful idea management platform

Scale and funnel ideas with powerful workflows and automations to manage, shortlist, review and measure ROI from those ideas.

Available on Enterprise plan only.

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CASE STUDY

Marks & Spencer 
'Suggest to Steve'

How M&S gets 70% more employee ideas
with Sideways 6 and Microsoft Teams

Read the story

What Customers Say

The value of what we achieved with the help of Sideways 6 cannot be understated — it’s priceless.
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Scott Wilkins

AstraZeneca

       

Curious to see how it works?

Get a hands-on look at how Sideways 6 can make idea management effortless.

 

In a short demo, we’ll walk you through the platform, answer your questions, and explore how it could fit your team's needs.

 

Fill in the form, and we’ll be in touch to arrange a time that suits you.

 

Microsoft Teams Resources

Learn how to make Teams a home for ideas and collaboration.

Guide

The ultimate guide to idea management on Teams

Read the guide

WEBINAR

Microsoft Teams and the Future of Ideas

Watch the webinar

Article

How to run an employee ideas campaign on Teams

Read the article