{"id":2863,"date":"2021-08-21T18:26:45","date_gmt":"2021-08-21T18:26:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.quantumrun.com\/consulting\/?p=2863"},"modified":"2024-08-26T03:35:32","modified_gmt":"2024-08-26T03:35:32","slug":"using-the-ideation-engine-project-interface","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quantumrun.com\/consulting\/using-the-ideation-engine-project-interface\/","title":{"rendered":"Using the Ideation Engine Project interface"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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The Quantumrun Foresight Platform helps businesses thrive from emerging trends by providing tools to discover, organize, and visualize insights that will accelerate strategy development, scenario planning, and product ideation initiatives.<\/p>

One of the key ways the platform provides this value is by allowing premium users to bookmark trend articles into Lists, and then convert those Lists into Projects that visualize the insights from the articles in ways that can help organizations make better business decisions.<\/p>

One of the project types that your organization can find value from is the Ideation Engine<\/strong>.<\/p>

This project type is designed to connect the dots. In other words, the Ideation Engine project interface is designed to help an organization visualize its bookmarked trend content in a 3D space, which is the only way to intuitively allow people to visually filter and isolate groupings of related <\/em>trends that may inspire innovative ideas for new products, services, and business models.<\/p>

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Ideation Engine methodology<\/h3>

The Ideation Engine project interface is designed to augment and enhance your organization\u2019s existing product development practices. To better understand the theory and methodology behind traditional product\/service ideation and how the Ideation Engine project interface can build upon this methodology, please click here<\/a>.<\/p>

Getting started<\/h3>

The following usage overview assumes that your team is familiar with the various features of the standard Ideation Engine project interface, as described in this\u00a0overview<\/a>.<\/p>

Step 1<\/h4>

The first step when using the Ideation Engine is simply to create one. You can start a project from scratch, as explained\u00a0here<\/a>. Or you can start a project based on content curated in one of your lists, as explained\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>

Step 2<\/h4>

Once your project page is created, it is important to fill your project page with trend content or other forms of data. This content will appear on the left sidebar of the project page and will be used by the platform to populate the 3D graph visualization on the right portion of the project page.<\/p>

Again, you can accelerate this process by creating a project that references a previously created list populated with curated trend content (read list-to-project tutorial<\/a>). However, there are many scenarios where an organization may instead want to populate this project exclusively with articles, reports, and links that are internal to the organization (i.e. not available to other platform users).<\/p>

In the latter scenario, organizations can publish their own content using the ADD A LINK and ADD AN ARTICLE buttons found in the top of the left sidebar. Both of these buttons will open a popup authoring form that will allow you to publish text notes\/articles and URLs into the project. (Note that any content added to these projects will only exist<\/strong> inside these projects.) Read details here<\/a>.<\/p>

Step 3<\/h4>

From this point, an important element to understand is how are the trend posts distributed on the graph.<\/p>

Very simply, every human-written article and human-curated Signal link published on the Quantumrun Foresight Platform is scored by Quantumrun foresight professionals using three scoring variables:<\/p>