Your CI program needs a pipeline, not a suggestion box.
Kaizen boards collect dust. Suggestion boxes nobody checks. You can't prove the CI program's ROI to leadership because there's no structured throughput data. Sparqbox replaces informal collection with a real evaluation pipeline — scored, weighted, and tracked from submission to outcome.
Three problems every CI program hits.
Kaizen boards collect dust
You set up the board, ran the kickoff session, got thirty sticky notes. Six months later, the board is buried behind a cart and three of the notes fell off. The program is technically still running.
No way to prove ROI
Leadership asks what the CI program delivered last year. You know it works — you've seen the improvements. But you can't produce a number because there's no structured data. Anecdotes don't survive a budget review.
Good ideas die in triage
An operator submits a process improvement. It sits in a spreadsheet. Nobody knows whose job it is to evaluate it. By the time someone looks, the context is stale and the submitter has stopped caring.
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A CI pipeline with real throughput metrics.
Sparqbox turns your CI program into a structured pipeline. Every idea scored against weighted criteria, every decision tracked, every submitter notified. At the end of the quarter you have throughput, approval rate, and cycle time — not stories.
of ideas scored against weighted criteria
faster evaluation cycle vs spreadsheet triage
for the CI program's quarterly ROI review
Find out if Sparqbox fits your CI workflow in 20 minutes.
Dennis (TU Eindhoven, idea-selection thesis) walks you through the workflow on your own categories — no slides, no sales script.
Quick answers.
Does it replace our Kaizen board?
It replaces the collection and triage parts. If you run Kaizen events to generate ideas, Sparqbox is where those ideas go next — structured evaluation, weighted scoring, and tracked outcomes. The board becomes a workshop tool; Sparqbox is the pipeline.
Can I set different criteria per improvement type?
Yes. Each category (process, cost, safety, energy, quality — you name it) has its own weighted criteria and decision thresholds. A quality improvement and a cost-saving idea are scored with different rubrics.
How do I prove CI program ROI?
Sparqbox tracks every idea from submission to outcome. Export throughput data: ideas submitted, evaluated, approved, rejected, implemented. Average cycle time, approval rate by category. That's your quarterly CI report — generated, not assembled.
What if our employees aren't used to digital tools?
Sparqbox works in any browser — no app install. The submission form is guided, not blank. Employees answer structured questions; the system handles the scoring. Most operators submit their first idea in under two minutes.
Every idea deserves an answer.
Give your team the one thing a suggestion box never will: a real decision, every time.
