The SavvyIdeas Story

I'm Simon, the person behind SavvyIdeas.

Early in my career, I was a trainee accountant in local government. There was a constant focus on cutting costs and, at some point, the leadership decided that they would ask staff for their ideas about ways to save money. Every department got a physical suggestion box and we wrote our ideas down and dropped them in there. At the end of each week the ideas were reviewed and the best ideas were rewarded (mainly with mugs, which were very popular - we drank a lot of tea! - but the best ideas could earn cash prizes that were pretty significant to a guy straight out of university).

I was pretty cynical about it, but the result really surprised me - the suggestions helped the organisation save hundreds of thousands of pounds and it made me think - where had all these ideas come from?

In many cases, the ideas were not new. People had often raised them before, but their managers weren't interested and there was no way to get them in front of decision-makers.

It was a pattern I saw repeated throughout my career. Employees had useful ideas, but no way to get them heard.

SavvyIdeas came out of this experience and aims to solve this problem.

Physical suggestion boxes still exist, but in today's hybrid workplaces they don't work so well. And there are enterprise tools out there that aim to solve this problem, but they're often complicated, expensive, and require a team of people to manage.

SavvyIdeas provides an alternative to these complex, expensive enterprise solutions. Affordable, easy to use, and effective, it helps organisations collect employee ideas and concerns in a structured way, with a minimum of fuss and effort, to give employees a clear channel to be heard.

👉 Give it a go - you might be surprised at the results too!