Many corporations have installed internal ideas banks to gather the input from their employees and improve their ideation process.
[citation needed][1] Many ideas banks are provided as free of charge, or set around certain companies in general to work out new inventions.
The front end of innovation is commonly referred to as "fuzzy" because it functions best when a collaborative system nurtures chaos, disruption and the serendipitous discovery of ideas.
In this sense the collaborative tool serves as a knowledge management system and is very Facebook-like, except everyone is talking about work.
Better idea management software systems will use an algorithm to measure the "wisdom of the crowd" gauging social media type activity.
Idea screening is an activity that consists of perception (the process of making sense and becoming aware) and judgement (reaching conclusions about what has been perceived).
However, this pursuit of technical and procedural optimization has only reinforced the perception of idea screening as a strict decision gate, limiting our understanding of the human side of this phenomenon.