Open innovation

Your next great solution may not be found internally. We break down the barriers to open innovation, giving you a secure, auditable, and simple way to tap into the global supply chain, find novel partners, and deliver solutions faster than procurement alone.

The challenge

Seeking innovation from outside is essential, but existing processes create friction and risk.

The Sourcing Bottleneck

Reliance on traditional, rigid procurement portals means you only hear from the usual suspects. Innovative SMEs and non-traditional suppliers are excluded by complex processes, limiting your strategic options.

Lack of Vetted Transparency

Engaging with external partners requires high scrutiny, but manual processes leave gaps. You lack a single, transparent system to track all communication, assurances, and decisions, creating audit risk and low accountability.

Fragmented Knowledge Base

External engagement often scatters vital data—due diligence, technical requirements, legal sign-offs—across shared drives, emails, and departmental silos. This makes comparative analysis and risk management nearly impossible.

Slow Time-to-Solution

The multi-gate review process (Procurement, Technical, Assurance) moves too slowly. Promising external ideas get stuck in an administrative backlog, creating a "valley of death" for both the external partner and your critical projects.

SimplyDo set out a clear end-to-end operational process to manage our innovation challenges. Then delivered at pace to ensure we achieved our project objectives. Every aspect of their unique people, process and digital product proposition was aligned to our requirements.
Nick Crew, Chief Operating Officer, Airbus Endeavr

How SimplyDo helps

SimplyDo provides the necessary bridge, turning external complexity into auditable, secure, and fast strategic sourcing.

Create a Global, Vetted Pipeline

Launch tailored challenges to a wider ecosystem, attracting non-traditional and highly specialised suppliers. We provide a single, easy route for external partners to submit secure, qualified proposals.

Structured & Auditable Assurance

Automatically route external submissions to the right domain experts (Security, Clinical, Finance). Our platform provides a full, centralised audit trail of every score, comment, and decision, drastically reducing compliance risk.

Centralise All External Data

Capture all supplier communication, technical assurance inputs, and financial rationale in one secure location. This creates a single source of truth for all external engagement, replacing disparate systems.

Accelerate Solution Adoption

Streamline the multi-gate review process with intelligent routing and fast-track features. By cutting administrative friction, we help you reduce the time-to-solution and quickly move from promising idea to contract award.

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