Published on 10/08/2026
Most organizations don't have an innovation problem. They have a pipeline problem.
Employees have ideas all the time in hallway conversations, team meetings, internal Slack channels. But without a structured way to capture, evaluate, and develop them, the vast majority never go anywhere. Studies on corporate innovation consistently point to the same bottleneck: it's not creativity that's missing, it's the system to turn creativity into execution.
SoolvIn, Soolvit's corporate innovation management platform, is built to close that gap from the first spark of an idea to a fully-fledged intrapreneurial project.
1. Give every idea a place to land
The first failure point in most companies isn't a lack of ideas it's that ideas have nowhere to go. They get mentioned once in a meeting, typed into a forgotten Slack message, or written down in a notebook that never leaves a drawer.
SoolvIn's Innov Box solves this by giving every employee one clear, permanent place to submit ideas and just as importantly, a way for those ideas to be enriched and voted on by colleagues, instead of disappearing the moment they're shared.
Nestlé took a similar approach with its internal innovation platform, In-Genius, which has engaged over 65,000 employees across 110 countries and surfaced more than 7,000 ideas since 2014 turning employee input into a continuous, trackable pipeline rather than a one-off suggestion box.
2. Turn the strongest ideas into structured challenges
Collecting ideas is only step one. The organizations that get real value from internal innovation are the ones that push their best ideas into structured projects with real stakes not just a mention in a newsletter.
With SoolvIn, teams can launch internal challenges that take a promising idea and give it the structure of a real project: clear objectives, a defined process, and a path to development.
Airbus did this with its intrapreneurship program BizLab, treating internal ideas like startups with sponsors acting as investors. One resulting project, an internal crowdsourcing initiative, delivered a 61% reduction in cost and a 59% reduction in time compared to traditional product development proof that structure, not just enthusiasm, is what makes ideas scale.
3. Build the skill of innovating, not just the habit of submitting ideas
Innovation isn't a personality trait some employees have and others don't it's a skill that can be trained. Yet most internal innovation programs stop at collecting ideas and never invest in developing the people behind them.
SoolvIn includes targeted training content and direct access to expert knowledge, helping employees build real innovation and upskilling capacity including on high-demand topics like AI and climate.
Google's well-known "20% time" policy operated on the same principle: giving employees not just permission but the tools and time to develop ideas. That practice is credited with producing Gmail, one of the most widely used products to ever emerge from an internal innovation initiative.
4. Adapt the pipeline to how your organization actually works
No two organizations innovate the same way which is why a rigid, one-size-fits-all platform rarely survives contact with a real company. SoolvIn is built to be customized: adding mentoring modules, connecting your existing innovation ecosystem, and tracking everything through built-in analytics.
This flexibility matters because internal innovation programs succeed or fail based on adoption, not ambition. A platform that can't flex to an organization's structure, culture, or priorities tends to get used once and then forgotten.
5. Fit into the tools your teams already use
The last barrier to internal innovation is often the simplest one: asking employees to learn and adopt an entirely new tool. If a platform doesn't integrate with what teams already use daily SharePoint, an internal intranet, or an existing project management tool it becomes one more login nobody remembers to check.
SoolvIn is designed to connect with these existing systems, so innovation becomes part of the workflow employees already have, rather than a disruption to it.
From idea to intrapreneurship
An internal innovation pipeline isn't built by asking employees to be more creative. It's built by giving their ideas somewhere to go a place to be captured, a process to be tested, the skills to be developed, and the flexibility to fit how your organization actually operates.
That's the pipeline SoolvIn is designed to run, end to end: from the first idea in the Innov Box to the employee who becomes an internal founder.
Ready to build your own innovation pipeline? Discover SoolvIn or explore Soolvit's open innovation platform to see how it fits your organization.
Sources : https://www.nestle.com/ https://www.airbus.com/ https://gmail.com
