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REGISTRATION AND PAYMENTS IN THE BEST IDEA

HOW TO REGISTER TO THE BEST IDEA PLATFORM?

Registering for The Best Idea platform is very easy!
You can register entering the required data or through your Facebook or LinkedIn account.

Click on “Login/Signup” at the top right and the registration page will open.

REGISTRATION WITH EMAIL ADDRESS:

Under the word “REGISTRATION” fill in all fields;
Accept the Privacy Policy and the General Conditions of Use and all the other documents in the Legal Area;
Click on the “REGISTRATION” button.
you will receive an email to complete the registration and inside it you will have to click the confirmation of your email address button.

REGISTRATION WITH FACEBOOK OR LINKEDIN:

Click one of the two buttons “FACEBOOK LOGIN” or “LINKEDIN LOGIN”;
After redirecting to the login page, enter your credentials that you usually use to log in to your Account;
By clicking on the email confirmation, received on your email address, you automatically accept the Privacy Policy and the General Conditions of Use and all the other documents in the Legal Area;

DID YOU FORGET YOUR PASSWORD?

Did you forget your password? No problem, recovering it is very simple:

Click on “Lost your password?“;
Check your mailbox. You will receive an email with a link to click.
A screen will open where you can enter your new password and confirm it.

WHAT IS FREE AND WHAT DO YOU PAY FOR?

Registering for The Best Idea platform is completely free.

Once the registration process is complete, you can always view and vote for free all the ideas of your interest included in the platform by those who have decided to let you participate in the vote, choosing among the Projects, the Flashes, the Polls, the Multiple Surveys, the Business Plans and the activity inside a Multi-Phase, as well as viewing the published Challenges-Requests-Needs.

You can also enter your Ideas (Challenges-Requests-Needs, Projects, Polls and Multiple Surveys) for free if you want them to be seen and voted by “All” the users registered on the platform or by all users of a “Nation” registered on the platform, when it will be possible to do so because we will have implemented This possibility.

After the free trial period, instead, you must activate a subscription by purchasing the appropriate credits in our store or by having them bought by your company, if:

you want to enter your Ideas (Challenges-Requests-Needs, Projects, Polls and Multiple Surveys), but limit the viewing and voting to a closed “Group” of users of the platform of your choice
you want to organize Multi-Phase sessions, to allow your team to freely exchange ideas in a structured system of ideas (through Challenges-Requests-Needs, Projects, Flashes, Business Plans, Polls and Multiple Surveys), or actively participate in these sessions as part of the team, by publishing your own ideas
you want to enter complete Business Plans of a new business initiatives to have it analysed by possible lenders
you want to enter Surveys of a confidential nature with conditional logic (link to the appropriate section)

The other paid functions, when we have implemented the possibility of showing and voting Ideas by “All” the users registered on the platform or by all users of a “Country” registered on the platform, are:

Sponsored Ideas: you can use your credits to highlight Challenges-Requests-Needs, Projects, Business Plans, Polls and Multiple Surveys;
Evaluation of Super-experts: you can hire a group of Super-expert users to evaluate your Project or take part to a confidential Poll or Multiple Survey.
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WHAT ARE CREDITS AND HOW TO PURCHASE THEM?

Credits are the currency that can be used on The Best Idea and are essential to purchase the possibility to enter your ideas by making them view and vote in a confidential manner only to a Group and to purchase all our premium services (for a fee). You can choose between different packages and use credits also for other users, for example all or some employees of your company.

To purchase credits, after registering you must go to the store area, select the quantity you prefer or the credit package and proceed to check out.

For payment you can use PayPal, which can be connected to the main credit cards.

YOUR CHALLENGES-REQUESTS-NEEDS IN THE BEST IDEA

WHAT ARE THE CHALLENGES-REQUESTS-NEEDS?

The Challenges-Requests-Needs in The Best Idea are the requests to find solutions to the problems that you too can do, because you have discovered that there is a need, and to which the Inventors can answer with their innovative ideas, whose typology is chosen of those who publish the Challenge-Request-Need between:

Projects (complete solutions to a problem);
Flashes (simple and immediate answers);
Business Plans (solutions to a complete problem with all the elements of analysis).

Unlike the other cases, the Challenges-Requests-Needs are only viewable and you cannot vote for them, but the innovative ideas (Projects, Flashes or Business Plans) to which they answer can be linked with the related Challenge-Request-Need.

HOW DO I ENTER MY CHALLENGE-REQUEST-NEED?

In order to enter your Challenge-Request-Need on The Best Idea platform it will only be necessary to be registered on the platform, if you want to have it displayed and get related ideas (Projects, Flash or Business Plan) by “All” users registered on the platform or by all users of a ” Country” registered on the platform, when we will have implemented this possibility.

Already now, you can display and get related ideas by a closed “Group” of users of the platform of your choice, but you must have paid the subscription; you can do this payment even after entering your Challenge-Request-Need data.

You can first choose whether to start from scratch to enter your Challenge-Request-Need or use an available Model, by clicking on the link “Use model”.

If you want to start from scratch for entering your Challenge-Request-Need, proceed as follows:

Click on the top menu under “Enter” and select the sub-item “Challenge-Request-Need“;
In the format that opens you first find the possibility to publish it as a Team (instead of just in your name) by clicking a checkbox and in this case a dropdown menu opens to choose the team among those you are part of;
You will then have to choose the Group that will be able to see it to reply, through another dropdown menu or clicking a button to create a new one;
You must also choose the type of response between Project, Flash and Business Plan and appears as the input language English;
Fill in all the mandatory fields marked with this symbol: (*). Make sure you describe your Challenge-Request-Need at its best by entering all the necessary information to allow all participants to respond with related ideas as much as possible;
Choose carefully the category of your Challenge-Request-Need, selecting the Macro-category / Category / Sub-category through the corresponding dropdown menus that open progressively (you can see all the possibilities available by clicking on “View the list of all categories”);
Choose how much you want your Challenge-Request-Need to remain viewable (maximum time 30 days);
Choose whether to promote and give more visibility on the homepage to your Challenge-Request-Need (the promotion requires the use of 4 credits); in the box on the right you will see the additional expense that you will have totalled for this publication;
If you believe that what you have compiled can serve as a model for other Challenge-Request-Need, you can click the “Save as Model” flag and if you want the other flag “Suggest the model to all users. Before being published it must be approved by the Website Operator”; in this case a new Model will be created and reported to the Website Operator who can make it available to everyone, receiving a reward for your help and being able to download a certificate of capacity to be used for your reputation
Once the entry is complete, save your Challenge-Request-Need in draft or decide whether to publish it immediately!

At the end of the insertion, the site sends an email fto the Inventor’s email; moreover it will be notified in the notifications section.

In the case of publication as a Team, an email and a notification are sent to all members of the Team, who must accept the publication; when a member of the team makes a change, a new email is sent and notifies all team members, who must accept the change.

If you want to use an available Model, or see if there is one that can help you, in addition to clicking the link as mentioned above, proceed as follows:

Click on the top menu under “Enter” and select the sub-item “Use Model” and among these the sub-item “ Challenges-Requests-Needs“;
A page will open with the ordered list of the Models you have created and those available for everyone;
If you find a Model you want to use, you can simply click it and it will open a new page with the same format used to start from scratch for the entering your Challenge-Request-Need, but in which many of the fields are entered
Proceed with entering the remaining fields or replacing the choices you find already filled
Once the entry is complete, save your project in draft or decide whether to publish it immediately!

WHO CAN RESPOND TO MY CHALLENGES-REQUESTS-NEEDS?

In The Best Idea it is you who will choose who will be able to see your Challenges-Requests-Needs and respond with a related idea, also choosing the type of idea among Projects, Flashes and Business Plans, at the time of publication, by selecting a “Group” of users or creating one.

In the future, when we have implemented this possibility, you will be able to choose between four segments of users when publishing the Challenge-Request-Need:

“All“: this item will allow all those registered on the platform to to see and respond to your Challenge-Request-Need;
“Country“: you can decide to limit the possibility of viewing only to users of a country of your choice;
“Group“: currently it is the only possible voice, that allows you to select or create your very own group of users enabled to view your Challenge-Request-Need;
“Super-Experts“: you can choose to show your Challenge-Request-Need to the best platform voters associated with the same category of your Challenge-Request-Need.

The choice of voters does not affect the maximum duration of the vote, equal to 30 days from publication or extension of the vote.

HOW CAN I SEE THE CHALLENGES-REQUESTS-NEEDS OF THE OTHER INVENTORS AND RESPOND WITH A RELATED PROJECT, FLASH OR BUSINESS PLAN?

To see the Challenges-Requests-Needs of other inventors and respond to a Challenge-Request-Need with a related idea, you must be a registered user and logged in on the The Best Idea platform.

It is very easy to find the Challenges-Requests-Needs to which I can respond with my ideas; follow this path:

Select the item “View” and click the sub-item “Challenge-Request-Need“;
You will be redirected to a page containing all published Challenges-Requests-Needs that you are enabled to see because you are part of those “Groups”, still in the period during which it is possible to present related ideas, and at the beginning the relative filtering system by Category or with a free text, in which you can enter a keyword, or by the Group involved;
Choose the Challenge-Request-Need to be voted by clicking on its title;
You will be redirected to the Challenge-Request-Need detail page, where you can find all the information and useful material to express your related idea;
You can click on the “Write to the Inventor” button if you want to ask them questions;
You can click on the “Send mail to Administrator” button, if you want to report content contrary to what is included in the Legal Area, for example concerning threats, religious discrimination, politics or gender or announcing criminal behavior;
Click on the “ANSWER” button if you want to present related ideas or on the “ANSWER LATER” one;
The page for entering the relative idea will open, which may be a Project, a Flash or a Business plan, where the code of the Challenge-Request-Need to which it answers is already entered.

YOUR PROJECTS IN THE BEST IDEA

WHAT SHOULD I DO TO ENTER MY INNOVATIVE PROJECT?

In order to enter your Project on The Best Idea platform it will only be necessary to be registered on the platform if you want to have it displayed and vote by “All” users registered on the platform or by all users of a “Country” registered on the platform, when we will have implemented this possibility.

Already now you can display your Project and have it voted by a closed “Group” of users of the platform of your choice, but you must have paid the subscription; you can do this payment even after entering your project data.

You can first choose whether to start from scratch to enter your Project or use an available Model, by clicking on the link “Use model”.

If you want to start from scratch for entering your Project, proceed as follows:

Click on the top menu under “Enter” and select the sub-item “Project“;
In the format that opens you first find the possibility to publish it as a Team (instead of just in your name) by clicking a checkbox and in this case a dropdown menu opens to choose the team among those you are part of;
You will then have to choose the Group that will be able to see it to reply, through another dropdown menu or clicking a button to create a new one;
If your Project responds to a “Challenge-Request-Need” published by other users, indicate the code of this Challenge-Request-Need; you will find this field already filled in if you have arrived in this format by clicking the button to respond to the “Challenge-Request-Need” within the display of the same;
Under this, the input language English appears;
Fill in all the mandatory fields marked with this symbol: (*). Make sure you describe your Project at its best by entering all the necessary information to allow all voters to make the most correct assessment possible;
Choose carefully the category of your project, selecting the Macro-category / Category / Sub-category through the related drop-down menus that open progressively (you can see all the possibilities available by clicking on “View the list of all categories”);
If you have a patent for your project, you can indicate the link
If a Crowdfunding is in progress for your Project, you can enter the link to the page of the crowdfunding website where to find the information and in this case the following fields will be entered in order to give complete information to possible investors, also to be able to appear on the crowdfunding page in our website:

1. presentation site
2. required capital
3. minimum amount
4. minimum subscription
5. collection start date
6. collection end date

Choose how much you want your project to remain viewable and eligible for voting (maximum time 30 days);
Choose whether to promote and give more visibility on the homepage of your project (the promotion requires the use of 4 credits); in the box on the right you will see the additional expense that you will have totalled for this publication;
Choose whether to save or remove the following choice:

“Keep the possibility of reconstructing the choice made by who will vote, in order to allow him to get a score for his ranking.
We recommend removing the flag for topics that require political, religious, sexual orientation, gender or similar views. ”

If you believe that what you have compiled can serve as a model for other Projects, you can click the “Save as Model” flag and if you want the other flag “Suggest the model to all users. Before being published it must be approved by the Website Operator”; in this case a new Model will be created and reported to the Website Operator who can make it available to everyone, receiving a reward for your help and being able to download a certificate of capacity to be used for your reputation
Once the entry is complete, save your Project in draft or decide whether to publish it immediately!

At the end of the insertion, the site sends an email fto the Inventor’s email; moreover it will be notified in the notifications section.

If you want to use an available Model, or see if there is one that can help you, in addition to clicking the link as mentioned above, proceed as follows:

Click on the top menu under “Enter” and select the sub-item “Use Model” and among these the sub-item “Projects”;
A page will open with the ordered list of models that you have created and those available for everyone;
If you find a Model you want to use, you can simply click it and it will open a new page with the same format used to start from scratch for the entering your Project, but in which many of the fields are entered
Proceed with entering the remaining fields or replacing the choices you find already filled
Once the entry is complete, save your project in draft or decide whether to publish it immediately!

WHO CAN VOTE MY PROJECTS?

In The Best Idea it is you who will choose who will be able to vote on your Projects, at the time of publication, by selecting a “Group” of users or creating one.

In the future, when we have implemented this possibility, you will be able to choose between four segments of users when publishing the Project:

“All“: this item will allow all those registered on the platform to vote for your Project;
“Country“: you can decide to limit the possibility of voting only to users of a country of your choice;
“Group“: currently it is the only possible voice, that allows you to select or create your very own group of users enabled to view and vote on your Project;
“Super-Experts“: you can choose to have your Project evaluated by the best platform voters associated with the same category as your Project.

The choice of voters does not affect the maximum duration of the vote, equal to 30 days from publication or extension of the vote.

HOW CAN I VOTE ON THE PROJECTS OF OTHER INVENTORS?

You must be a registered user and logged in on The Best Idea platform to vote on the Projects. It is very easy to find the Projects on which to vote; proceed as follows:

Select the item “Vote” and click the sub-item “Projects“;
You will be redirected to a page containing all published Projects that you are enabled to see because you are part of those “Groups”, still in the voting period, and at the beginning the relative filtering system by Category or with a free text, in which you can enter a keyword or the Necessity to which they answer, or by Group involved;
Choose the Project to vote by clicking on its title;
You will be redirected to the detailed page of the Project, where you can find the complete description and the related associated material to express your preference;
You can click on the “Write to the Inventor” button if you want to ask him questions
You can click on “Send mail to the Administrator” button, if you want to report content contrary to what is included in the Legal Area, for example concerning threats, religious discrimination, politics or gender or announcing criminal behaviour
Vote the Project from 3 (negative vote) to 10 (positive maximum vote);
Click on the “Vote” button to confirm your rating or “Vote later” to postpone your choice. The “Vote later” button requires the user to receive a notification that will be used to make a first “on-the-fly” screen of interesting ideas and then see them calmly in another, more peaceful moment.

Pay attention that you will be evaluated as much as you have been careful and able to vote with conscience and commitment!

In this you are helped by the table because you can proceed for three successive mental steps, deciding first if the Project deserves a vote above or below the continuous median line and once made this choice by deciding whether the Project deserves a vote above or below the dotted line of the chosen portion and finally deciding the final numerical vote and clicking on it.

For each of these subsequent choices, the correspondence with the majority of users will be verified and you will get a rating as a voter, with a higher score as close as the average vote of the others, but with a corrective multiplier that is higher if it is close at the ends of the scale (3 or 10) and gradually lower and lower if it is close to those more internal to the scale (6 and 7).

Only the projects with voting in progress will be displayed, that is those in which a judgment can be made.

You can vote only once for each Project.

WHY AND HOW IS A VOTE FOR THE VOTANT GIVEN?

To prevent the vote being given absent-mindedly, without carefully evaluating the Project, a multiplicative coefficient was introduced, the MEC score (Multiplier of Experience for Category), linked to the ability to best represent the majority of voters for a determined category of Projects.

The more your vote is relevant to the one given by the majority of users, the more your evaluation will affect the following votes you will make; on the contrary, the more your vote deviates from the majority, the less it will influence in the next voting.

Your vote is not however compared only with the average score obtained by that Project, but a much more refined calculation system is used, which allows you to choose according to your conscience, as it is not useful to obtain a higher grade to make reasoning related only to the probability of approaching to the average.

Every time you make an assessment, the platform calculates your vote in relation to what is given by the majority of voters, which will average with the other votes you have taken in the past, to get a list of the best voters that will be visible.

The MEC multiplier is growing with the average vote you will have taken, according to a particular algorithm, but taking into consideration only the last two months of voting, this will allow you to improve your influence more and more in the evaluation of a Project in the various categories!

YOUR FLASHES IN THE BEST IDEA

WHAT SHOULD I DO TO ENTER MY INNOVATIVE FLASH?

Flash is completely similar to the Project, but has a different purpose, which is to provide an innovative idea that has not yet been fully meditated, but that you publish in a very quick and extremely simplified way and that votes just as quickly and simplified way, using normally a smartphone, in response to a Challenge-Request-Need expressed by others, from here the name of Flash.

One of the uses is for the Multi-Phase sessions, for the part of activities performed in the classroom, as normally the sticky notes hanging on a wall are used, but making the choice of the best ideas extremely simple and carried out with an anonymous vote.

Another use is to provide simple suggestions to the managers of a company, making them evaluate by them or possibly by all employees.

In order to enter your Flash on the The Best Idea platform, you will only need to be registered on the platform, if you want it to be viewed and voted by “All” the users registered on the platform or by all users of a “Country”, when we will have implemented this possibility.

Already now you can display it and have it voted by a closed “Group” of users of the platform of your choice, but you must have paid the subscription; you can do this payment even after entering your Flash data.

If you decide to respond to a Challenge-Request-Need published by others, since it is not possible to publish it independently unlike the Projects, proceed as follows:

In order to compile and publish a Flash, you must have clicked on the “text” of a Challenge-Request-Need to respond to which the Inventor had planned to use a Flash and clicked the “ANSWER” button within the Challenge-Request-Need reading format;
In the format that opens you first find the possibility to publish it as a Team (instead of just in your name) by clicking a checkbox and in this case a dropdown menu opens to choose the team among those you are part of;
The code of Challenge-Request-Need you are answering automatically appears in the format below;
Fill in at least the mandatory field which is the Title and if you want the others too;
After completing the entry, save your Flash in draft or decide whether to publish it immediately!
A page opens with the data entered and the voting table, similar to the one found by the person who will vote for your Flash, with the addition of two buttons, “ENTER ANOTHER ANSWER“, which sends you to the entry page same as the one you just filled in, and “GO TO THE LIST OF PUBLISHED ANSWERS“, which allows you to go to the list of Flashes published by others and which you can choose to vote on, filtered however so that you only see those who are in response to the Challenge-Request-Need you just answered.

WHO CAN VOTE MY FLESHES?

In The Best Idea it is the person who has published the Challenge-Request-Need to which your Flash responds to choose who can vote for your Flashes at the time of publication.

HOW CAN I VOTE ON THE FLESHES OF OTHER INVENTORS?

To vote for Flash, you must be a registered user and logged into the Best Idea platform. It is very easy to find the Flashes on which to cast a vote; follow this path:

Select the item “Vote” and click the sub-item “Flashes“;
You will be redirected to a page containing all published Flashes that you are enabled to see because you are part of those “Groups”, still in the voting period, and at the beginning the relative filtering system by Category or with a free text, in which you can enter a keyword or the Necessity to which they answer, or by group involved
Choose the Flash to vote by clicking on its title;
You will be redirected to the detailed page of the Flash where you can find the complete description and the material useful to be able to express your preference;
You can click on the “Write to the Inventor” button if you want to ask him questions
You can click on “Notify the Website Operator” button, if you want to report content contrary to what is included in the Legal Area, for example concerning threats, religious discrimination, politics or gender or announcing criminal behaviour
Rate the Flash from 3 (negative vote) to 10 (positive maximum vote);
Click on the “Vote” button to confirm your rating or “Vote later” to postpone your choice. The “Vote later” button requires the user to receive a notification that will be used to make a first “on-the-fly” screen of interesting ideas and then see them calmly in another, more peaceful moment.

Pay attention that you will be evaluated as much as you have been careful and able to vote with conscience and commitment!

In this you are helped by the table because you can proceed for three successive mental steps, deciding first if the Flash deserves a vote above or below the continuous median line and once made this choice by deciding whether the Flash deserves a vote above or below the dotted line of the chosen portion and finally deciding the final numerical vote and clicking it.

Only the Flashes with voting in progress will be displayed, that is those in which a judgment can be made.

You can vote only once for each Flash.

WHY AND HOW IS A VOTE FOR THE VOTANT GIVEN?

To prevent the vote being given absent-mindedly, without carefully evaluating the Flash, the more your vote is relevant to that given by the majority of users, the higher the score you will take.

Your vote is not however compared only with the average score obtained by that Flash, but a much more refined calculation system is used, which allows you to choose according to your conscience, as it is not useful to obtain a higher grade to make reasoning related to the probability of approaching to the average.

THE BUSINESS PLAN FUNCTION IN THE BEST IDEA

WHAT IS THE BUSINESS PLAN FUNCTION IN THE BEST IDEA?

The Business Plan function is a method to give visibility of new businesses possible investors, who can directly contact the Inventor who has published the new business or participate in the evaluation of the elements that make up his Business Plan, assessments that will go, along with those of the other members of the “Group” of possible investors, to compose a ranking to give better visibility to new and more interesting businesses.

The Best Idea platform allows all the Inventors to use pre-established Models, if possible, and the voting participants to operate remotely, in the times preferred by everyone, among other things anonymously.

HOW TO CREATE A GROUP FOR THE BUSINESS PLAN FUNCTION IN THE BEST IDEA?

The Group in The Best Idea is used to limit the view and voting of what has been published to a group of people you want to involve, as determined by those who publish them through a choice in the format for entering.

In the case of the Business Plan function, the Group can be composed of an investor club and the entering of the Business Plan can use a Model designed for this club.

To be able to enter a Group within The Best Idea platform, you must have paid the subscription; you can do this payment even after entering your Group data.

After checking if you meet both the above requirements, proceed as indicated in Groups.

You can also ask the Website Operator to include a custom algorithm, alternative to the standard one for the overall rating of the Business Plan.

HOW DO I ENTER MY BUSINESS PLAN?

When you enter a Business Plan in The Best Idea you become the Inventor; the platform will suggest you to use an existing Model, choosing among the types of Business Plan Models available, which can still be modified and integrated according to your needs, or you can start from scratch with a completely different type, directly entering the various “Components” that you deem necessary for the definition of the characteristics of your Idea, organized in “Chapters“.

Inside, each Component can be entered by choosing among the categories related to the type of information introduced, so that the information is organized.

In order to enter your Business Plan on The Best Idea platform it will only be necessary to be registered on the platform, if you want to have it displayed and vote by “All” the users registered on the platform or by all users of a “Country” registered on the platform, when we will have implemented this possibility.

Already now, you can display your Business Plan and have it voted by a closed “Group” of users of the platform of your choice, but you must have paid the monthly or annual fee; you can do this payment even after entering your Business Plan data.

You can first choose whether to start from scratch to enter your Business Plan or use an available Model.

If you want to start from scratch for entering your Business Plan, proceed as follows:

Click on the top menu under “Enter” and select the sub-item “Business Plan“. Each Business Plan will receive the identification code generated by the system automatically;
In the format that opens you first find the possibility to publish it as a Team (instead of just in your name) by clicking a checkbox and in this case a dropdown menu opens to choose the team among those you are part of;
You will then have to choose the Group that will be able to see it to reply, through another dropdown menu or clicking a button to create a new one;
If your Business Plan responds to a “Challenge-Request-Need” published by other users, indicate the code of this Challenge-Request-Need; you will find this field already filled in if you have arrived in this format by clicking the button to respond to the “Challenge-Request-Need” within the display of the same;
Under this, the input language English appears;
Fill in all the mandatory fields of the initial part, marked with this symbol: (*);
Choose carefully the category of your project, selecting the Macro-category / Category / Sub-category through the related drop-down menus that open progressively (you can see all the possibilities available by clicking on “View the list of all categories”);
If you have a patent for the idea in your Business Plan, you can indicate the link
If a Crowdfunding is in progress for the idea in your Business Plan, you can enter the link to the page of the crowdfunding website where to find the information and in this case the following fields will be entered in order to give complete information to possible investors, also to be able to appear on the crowdfunding page in our website:

1. presentation site
2. required capital
3. minimum amount
4. minimum subscription
5. collection start date
6. collection end date

Enter the Description for the 1^st Chapter which will include one or more Components
Enter the various “Components“, one at a time, until the Chapter is completed, ordering them so that they can be easily published in a predetermined order, choosing among the categories related to the type of information introduced;
Choose whether to use an available Model for each component, by clicking the “Use Model” text and then eventually modify it and adapt it to your needs; if you do not click the button you will have all the fields free;
If you have not used an existing Model, fill in all the mandatory fields of the component, marked with this symbol: (*);
Add other Chapters with the related Components if necessary;
You can always change the order of the various Components or move them in another Chapter, and before moving a Component it is better to reduce its size by clicking on the Component triangle at the top right and then dragging the rectangle to the desired position
You can also delete it by clicking on the delete button at the top right of the Component
Enter the start and end dates;
Choose whether to promote and give more visibility on the homepage of your project (the promotion requires the use of 4 credits); in the box on the right you will see the additional expense that you will have totalled for this publication;
Choose whether to save or remove the following choice:

If you believe that what you have compiled can serve as a model for other Business Plan, you can click the “Save as Model” flag and if you want the other flag “Suggest the model to all users. Before being published it must be approved by the Website Operator”; in this case a new Model will be created and reported to the Website Operator who can make it available to everyone, receiving a reward for your help and being able to download a certificate of capacity to be used for your reputation
Once the entry is complete, save your Business Plan in draft or decide whether to publish it immediately!

At the end of the insertion, the site sends an email fto the Inventor’s email; moreover it will be notified in the notifications section.

If you want to use an available Model, or see if there is one that can help you, proceed as follows:

Click on the top menu under “Enter” and select the sub-item “Use Model” and among these the sub-item “Business Plan”;
A page will open with the ordered list of models that you have created and those available for everyone;
If you find a Model you want to use, you can simply click it and it will open a new page with the same format used to start from scratch for the entering your Business Plan, but in which you can view the complete structure of various “Chapters” and “Components”, and you can edit them or move the order, completely delete a part or add more, according to your needs
Proceed with filling the remaining fields or replacing the choices you find already filled
After completing the entry, save your Business Plan in draft or decide whether to publish it immediately!

HOW DO I PARTICIPATE IN VIEWING AND VOTING BUSINESS PLAN IN THE BEST IDEA?

To participate in the viewing and voting of Business Plan in The Best Idea, you must ask the Group Administrator.

To vote for other Business Plans, you must be registered on the platform while to publish a Business Plan you must have paid the monthly or annual fee.

It is very easy to find the Business Plans that you can see and vote on; follow this path:

Select the item “View” and click the sub-item “Business Plan“;
You will be redirected to a page containing all the published Business Plans that you are enabled to see why you are part of those “Groups”, still in the voting period, and at the beginning the relative filtering system with a free text or by Category, Groups to which you belong;
Choose the Business Plan you want to see by clicking on its title;
You will be redirected to the page where all the components that you have not yet voted for that Business Plan appear;
Click on one of these components and the relative page opens to see everything indicated and answer with a vote
You can click on the “Write to the Inventor” button if you want to ask them questions;
You can click on the “Notify the Administrator” button, if you want to report content contrary to what is included in the Legal Area, for example concerning threats, religious discrimination, politics or gender or announcing criminal behaviour;
Rate the Component from 3 (negative vote) to 10 (maximum positive vote);
Click on the “Vote” button to confirm your rating or “Vote later” to postpone your choice. The “Vote later” button requires the user to receive a notification that will be used to make a first “on-the-fly” screen of interesting ideas and then see them calmly in another, more peaceful moment;
If at that moment there are other published Components of that Business Plan for which you still have to give your vote, you will be directed to the next one.

YOUR POLLS IN THE BEST IDEA

WHAT ARE THE CHARACTERISTICS OF THE POLL?

The Poll structure within the The Best Idea platform is very simple: they consist of a question to which users, who have been selected by the inventor of the poll, will have to respond by expressing a preference among the closed answers already indicated.

Unlike the system used for Projects, the expressed preference is not subject to any kind of evaluation, so all the answers will have the same weight in the final statistics.

WHAT SHOULD I DO TO ENTER MY POLL?

In order to enter your Poll on The Best Idea platform it will only be necessary to be registered on the platform if you want to have it displayed and vote by “All” users registered on the platform or by all users of a “Country” registered on the platform, when we will have implemented this possibility.

Already now you can display your Poll and have it voted by a closed “Group” of users of the platform of your choice, but you must have paid the subscription; you can do this payment even after entering your project data.

You can first choose whether to start from scratch to enter your Poll or use an available Model.

If you want to start from scratch for entering your Poll, proceed as follows:

Click on the top menu under “Enter” and select the sub-item “Survey” and choose “Poll“;
In the format that opens you first find the possibility to publish it as a Team (instead of just in your name) by clicking a checkbox and in this case a dropdown menu opens to choose the team among those you are part of;
You will then have to choose who will be able to view your Survey and there are two possibilities:
1. enter a list of email addresses, using an Excel file in csv format, as it will be proposed to you at the end of the compilation of this format if you make this choice; this possibility is used when it comes to people who are not registered on the platform, but from whom you have obtained authorization to contact them by email, in accordance with the GDPR (General data protection regulation), assuming responsibility for them; obviously you will get a very simple report of the percentages of answers, without the possibility of filtering;
2. enter one of the Groups you belong to with the relative drop-down list or, if they do not suit you, you can directly create a new one by clicking on the “CREATE ONE” button; in this case you will have all the potential provided by the platform available;
Under this, the input language English appears;
Fill in all the mandatory fields marked with this symbol: (*). Make sure you describe your Poll at its best by entering all the necessary information to allow all voters to make the most correct assessment possible;
Choose whether the Voters can choose a numerical value of 3 and 10 or between the various possibilities identified by a letter (a, b, c …)
If you have chosen for various possibilities identified by a letter (a, b, c …), add below the texts of the various choices for the poll
Choose carefully the type of your Poll, selecting the Macro-category / Category / Sub-category through the corresponding tendons that open progressively (you can see all the possibilities available by clicking on “View the list of all categories”);
Choose how much you want your Poll to remain viewable and eligible for voting (maximum time 30 days);
Choose whether to promote and give more visibility on the homepage of your Poll (the promotion requires the use of 4 credits); in the box on the right you will see the additional expense that you will have totalled for this publication;
Choose whether to save or remove the following choice:

If you believe that what you have compiled can serve as a model for other Polls, you can click the “Save as Model” flag and if you want the other flag “Suggest the model to all users. Before being published it must be approved by the Website Operator”; in this case a new Model will be created and reported to the Website Operator who can make it available to everyone, receiving a reward for your help and being able to download a certificate of capacity to be used for your reputation
Once the entry is complete, save your Poll in draft or decide whether to publish it immediately!
When you have clicked the “PUBLISH” button, if you had chosen to have people not registered on the platform respond to your survey, the page to enter their email addresses will open.

At the end of the insertion, the site sends an email fto the Inventor’s email; moreover it will be notified in the notifications section.

If you want to use an available Model, or see if there is one that can help you, proceed as follows:

Click on the top menu under “Enter” and select the sub-item “Use Model” and choose “Polls“;
A page will open with the ordered list of models that you have created and those available for everyone;
If you find a Model you want to use, you can simply click it and it will open a new page with the same format used to start from scratch for the entering your Poll, but in which many of the fields are entered
Proceed with entering the remaining fields or replacing the choices you find already filled
Once the entry is complete, save your project in draft or decide whether to publish it immediately!

WHO CAN PARTICIPATE IN MY POLLS?

In The Best Idea it is you who will choose who will be able to vote on your Poll, and at the time there are two possibilities:

enter a list of email addresses, using an Excel file in csv format, as it will be proposed to you at the end of the compilation of this format if you make this choice; this possibility is used when it comes to people who are not registered on the platform, but from whom you have obtained authorization to contact them by email, in accordance with the GDPR (General data protection regulation), assuming responsibility for them; obviously you will get a very simple report of the percentages of answers, without the possibility of filtering;
enter one of the Groups you belong to with the relative drop-down list or, if they do not suit you, you can directly create a new one by clicking on the “CREATE ONE” button; in this case you will have all the potential provided by the platform available;

In the future, when we have implemented this possibility, you will be able to choose between four segments of users when publishing the Poll:

“All“: this item will allow all those registered on the platform to vote for your Poll;
“Country“: you can decide to limit the possibility of voting only to users of a country of your choice;
“Group“: currently it is the only possible voice, that allows you to select or create your very own group of users enabled to view and vote on your Poll;
“Super-Experts“: you can choose to have your Poll evaluated by the best platform voters associated with the same category as your Poll.

WHERE DO I GO TO PARTICIPATE IN THE POLLS?

To participate in the Poll:

if whoever published it has chosen the possibility of including non-registered users participating via the list of email addresses entered at the end of the Poll, the participants will receive an email with a personalized and disposable link to participate in the Poll which, if clicked, will take them to the page to respond to the Poll;
if instead he has chosen to have a group of users registered on the platform participate, each of these users, registered and logged in on The Best Idea platform, will find the Polls on which to vote, following this path:

Select the item “Vote” in the top menu and click the sub-item “Polls“;
You will be redirected to a page containing all published Polls that you are enabled to see because you are part of those “Groups”, still in the voting period, and at the beginning the relative filtering system with a free text or by Category, Groups to which you belong;
Choose the Poll you want to participate in by clicking on its title;
You will be redirected to the Poll detail page, where you can find all the information and useful material to express your preference;
You can click on the “Write to the Inventor” button if you want to ask them questions
You can click on “Notify the Administrator” button, if you want to report content contrary to what is included in the Legal Area, for example concerning threats, religious discrimination, politics or gender or announcing criminal behaviour
Select your answer and confirm it by pressing the “Vote” button.

Only the Polls with voting in progress will be displayed, that is those in which a judgment can be made.

You can vote only once for each Poll.

YOUR MULTIPLE SURVEYS IN THE BEST IDEA

WHAT ARE THE CHARACTERISTICS OF THE MULTIPLE SURVEY?

The Multiple Survey structure within the The Best Idea platform is very simple: they are composed of a set of questions to which users, who have been selected by the inventor of the Multiple Survey, will have to respond by expressing a preference among the closed answers already indicated.

Unlike the system used for Projects, the expressed preference is not subject to any kind of evaluation, so all the answers will have the same weight in the final statistics.

WHAT SHOULD I DO TO ENTER MY MULTIPLE SURVEY?

In order to enter your Multiple Survey within The Best Idea platform, you will only need to be registered on the platform, if you want it to be viewed and voted by “All” users registered on the platform or by all users of a “Country” registered on the platform when we have implemented this possibility.

You can already have it viewed and voted by a closed “Group” of users of the platform of your choice, but you must have paid for the subscription; this payment you can do it even after entering the data of your Multiple Survey.

You can first choose whether to start from scratch to insert your Multiple Survey or use an available Model.

If you want to start from scratch to insert your multiple survey, proceed as follows:

Click on the menu “Enter” at the top and select the sub-item “Survey” and choose “Multiple Survey“;
In the format that opens you first find the possibility to publish it as a Team (instead of just in your name) by clicking a checkbox and in this case a dropdown menu opens to choose the team among those you are part of;
You will then have to choose who will be able to view your Survey and there are two possibilities:
1. enter a list of email addresses, using an Excel file in csv format, as it will be proposed to you at the end of the compilation of this format if you make this choice; this possibility is used when it comes to people who are not registered on the platform, but from whom you have obtained authorization to contact them by email, in accordance with the GDPR (General data protection regulation), assuming responsibility for them; obviously you will get a very simple report of the percentages of answers, without the possibility of filtering;
2. enter one of the Groups you belong to with the relative drop-down list or, if they do not suit you, you can directly create a new one by clicking on the “CREATE ONE” button; in this case you will have all the potential provided by the platform available;
Under this, the input language English appears;
Fill in all the mandatory fields marked with this symbol: (*). Make sure to best describe your Multiple Survey by entering all the necessary information to allow all voters to give the most correct assessment possible;
Choose carefully the category of your Multiple Survey, selecting the Macro-category / Category / Sub-category through the relative curtains that open progressively (you can see all the possibilities available by clicking on “View the list of all categories”);
Divide the questions into “Chapters”, which will include one or more questions whose answer will be confirmed at the same time by those who will answer the survey, and if you want, enter a Description for the 1^st Chapter;
Add the various “Questions“, one at a time, and fill in the “title” and if you want the “description”;
Choose if the Voters will be able to choose a numerical value between 3 and 10 or from various possibilities identified by a letter (a, b, c …);
If you have chosen for various possibilities identified by a letter (a, b, c …), add the texts of the various possibilities of choice for that question below;
In both cases, if you want, you can also add illustrative files, for example images and the link to a video you uploaded to YouTube;
You can add other Questions within the chapter with the same procedure;
You can add other Chapters with the same procedure;
You can always change the order of the various Questions or move them by Chapter and before moving a Question it is better to reduce its size by clicking on the Question triangle at the top right and then dragging the rectangle to the desired position;
Enter the start and end dates of the activity;
Choose whether to promote and give more visibility on the homepage of your Multiple Survey (the promotion requires the use of 4 credits); in the box on the right you will see the additional expense that you will have totalled for this publication;
Choose whether to save or remove the following choice:

If you believe that what you have compiled can serve as a model for other Multiple Surveys, you can click the “Save as Model” flag and if you want the other flag “Suggest the model to all users. Before being published it must be approved by the Website Operator”; in this case a new Model will be created and reported to the Website Operator who can make it available to everyone, receiving a reward for your help and being able to download a certificate of capacity to be used for your reputation
Once the entry is complete, save your Multiple Survey in draft or decide whether to publish it immediately!
When you have clicked the “PUBLISH” button, if you had chosen to have people not registered on the platform respond to your survey, the page to enter their email addresses will open.

At the end of the insertion, the site sends an email fto the Inventor’s email; moreover it will be notified in the notifications section.

If you want to use an available Model, or see if there is one that can help you, proceed as follows:

Click on the top menu under “Enter” and select the sub-item “Use Model” and choose “Multiple Surveys“;
A page will open with the ordered list of models that you have created and those available for everyone;
If you find a Model you want to use, you can simply click it and it will open a new page with the same format used to start from scratch for the entering your Multiple Survey, but in which many of the fields are entered
Proceed with entering the remaining fields or replacing the choices you find already filled
Once the entry is complete, save your project in draft or decide whether to publish it immediately!

WHO CAN PARTICIPATE IN MY MULTIPLE SURVEYS?

In The Best Idea it is you who will choose who will be able to vote on your Multiple Survey, and at the time there are two possibilities:

enter a list of email addresses, using an Excel file in csv format, as it will be proposed to you at the end of the compilation of this format if you make this choice; this possibility is used when it comes to people who are not registered on the platform, but from whom you have obtained authorization to contact them by email, in accordance with the GDPR (General data protection regulation), assuming responsibility for them; obviously you will get a very simple report of the percentages of answers, without the possibility of filtering;
enter one of the Groups you belong to with the relative drop-down list or, if they do not suit you, you can directly create a new one by clicking on the “CREATE ONE” button; in this case you will have all the potential provided by the platform available;

In the future, when we have implemented this possibility, you will be able to choose between four segments of users when publishing the Multiple Surveys:

“All“: this item will allow all those registered on the platform to vote for your Multiple Survey;
“Country“: you can decide to limit the possibility of voting only to users of a country of your choice;
“Group“: currently it is the only possible voice, that allows you to select or create your very own group of users enabled to view and vote on your Multiple Survey;
“Super-Experts“: you can choose to have your Multiple Survey evaluated by the best platform voters associated with the same category as your Multiple Survey.

WHERE DO I HAVE TO GO TO PARTICIPATE IN THE MULTIPLE SURVEYS?

To participate in the Survey:

if whoever published it has chosen the possibility of including non-registered users participating via the list of email addresses entered at the end of the Survey, the participants will receive an email with a personalized and disposable link to participate in the Survey which, if clicked, will take them to the page to respond to the Survey;
if instead he has chosen to have a group of users registered on the platform participate, each of these users, registered and logged in on The Best Idea platform, will find the Surveys on which to vote, following this path:

Select the “Vote” item in the top menu and click the “Survey” sub-item;
You will be redirected to a page containing all the published Surveys, for which you are authorized to participate, which may be Polls, Multiple Surveys or Conditional Surveys, and at the beginning the relative filtering system with a free text or by Category, Groups of to which you belong;
Choose the Multiple Survey you want to participate in by clicking on its title;
You will be redirect to the page where all the chapters with the questions appear;
Click one of these chapters and the relative page opens with the various questions you can answer and at the end of the chapter you can confirm the set of answers of that chapter and move on to the next chapter;
At the end, you will be able to see all the questions and answers you have given
You can click on the “Write to the Inventor” button, if you want to ask him questions
You can click on the “Notify the Administrator” button, if you want to report content contrary to what is included in the Legal Area, as regards, for example, threats, religious, political or gender discrimination or that announce criminal behavior

You can vote only once for each Multiple Survey.

YOUR CONDITIONAL SURVEYS IN THE BEST IDEA

WHAT ARE THE CHARACTERISTICS OF THE CONDITIONAL SURVEY?

The Conditional Survey allows to post multiple surveys using conditional logics that provide to follow a Survey with another Survey depending on the choice made in the previous Survey by the Voter himself and so on for the following ones.

These component Surveys are very similar to those of the Multiple Surveys provided by The Best Idea platform, which are composed of a single question to which users, who want to participate or who have been selected by the Inventor, must respond by expressing a preference between the closed answers already indicated, but are differentiated by the inclusion for each possible choice of the Voter of the following:

the correlated Survey code that will follow if the Voter chooses the answer in question
the possibility of entering a score that serves to make an overall average evaluation of the answers given by the various Voters, but above all to give the individual Voter a score if he chooses the answer in question, if the purpose of this Conditional Survey is to evaluate the Voter on the answers to questions of which the answer is known, for an examination of his skills.

At the end of the voting of the last question in the Conditional Survey chain, there is a button that allows the Voter who wants it, to make his choice known to those who entered the Conditional Survey by making it match his name, with specific consent, by extraction a file with his answers.

WHAT ARE THE POSSIBLE APPLICATIONS OF THE CONDITIONAL SURVEY?

The possible applications of the Conditional Survey are the following:

Evaluate the level of representativeness of candidates for a future market survey, obtaining a quality certification of these potential candidates, allowing the use of standardized analysis systems that can be customized by a Company or a Research Institute or a Party or a Political movement
Evaluate the level of learning of an individual employee, following a course held by external or internal teachers, comparing his answers with the correct ones, also making the teacher or others evaluate the answers to free text in an anonymous way
Evaluate the skills of a candidate for employment in a Company role
Evaluate the level of system sharing of the values of an individual employee according to the answers given by the colleagues in an anonymous manner to specific questions concerning his behavior, making sure to reward the best results avoiding to highlight too much the shortcomings
Make an overall average evaluation of the answers given by the Voters

WHAT SHOULD I DO TO ENTER MY CONDITIONAL SURVEY?

In order to enter your Conditional Survey within The Best Idea platform, you will only need to be registered on the platform, if you want it to be viewed and voted by “All” users registered on the platform or by all users of a “Country” registered on the platform when we have implemented this possibility.

You can first choose whether to start from scratch to insert your Conditional Survey or use an available Model.

If you want to start from scratch to insert your Conditional survey, proceed as follows:

Click on the menu “Enter” at the top and select the sub-item “Survey” and choose “Conditional Survey“;
In the format that opens you first find the possibility to publish it as a Team (instead of just in your name) by clicking a checkbox and in this case a dropdown menu opens to choose the team among those you are part of;
You will then have to choose who will be able to view your Survey and there are two possibilities:
1. enter a list of email addresses, using an Excel file in csv format, as it will be proposed to you at the end of the compilation of this format if you make this choice; this possibility is used when it comes to people who are not registered on the platform, but from whom you have obtained authorization to contact them by email, in accordance with the GDPR (General data protection regulation), assuming responsibility for them; obviously you will get a very simple report of the percentages of answers, without the possibility of filtering;
2. enter one of the Groups you belong to with the relative drop-down list or, if they do not suit you, you can directly create a new one by clicking on the “CREATE ONE” button; in this case you will have all the potential provided by the platform available;
Under this, the input language English appears;
Fill in all the mandatory fields marked with this symbol: (*). Make sure to best describe your Conditional Survey by entering all the necessary information to allow all voters to give the most correct assessment possible;
Choose carefully the category of your Conditional Survey, selecting the Macro-category / Category / Sub-category through the relative curtains that open progressively (you can see all the possibilities available by clicking on “View the list of all categories”);
Add the various “Questions“, one at a time, and fill in the “title” and if you want the “description”;
Choose if the Voters will be able to choose a numerical value between 3 and 10 or from various possibilities identified by a letter (a, b, c …);
If you have chosen for various possibilities identified by a letter (a, b, c …), add in the first line the text of the first possibility of choice for that question in the leftmost field;
In the same row, in the central field, you will find a drop-down menu to choose the next question that will have to find who has chosen this answer by answering this question and you can do this later, after you have finished entering all the questions ;
In the same row, in the field on the right, you have the possibility to enter a value between 3 and 10 which is used to give an evaluation of the answer and which will average with the others of that participant in the survey to find an average value of the whole poll;
By clicking on the button on the right you can add further answers with the same system;
f instead you have chosen for a numerical value between 3 and 10 you will find, in the central field, for each value between 3 and 10, the same type of drop-down menu to choose the next question that will have to find who has chosen this answer by answering to this question and this you can do later, after you have finished entering all the questions;
In the same row, in the field on the right, you have the possibility to enter a value between 3 and 10 which is used to give an evaluation of the answer and which will average with the others of that participant in the survey to find an average value of the whole survey and that has nothing to do with the value you find at the beginning of the line;
In both cases, if you want, you can also add illustrative files, for example images and the link to a video you uploaded to YouTube;
In both cases, you can add other questions with the same procedure;
You can always change the order of the various Questions and before moving a Question it is better to reduce its size by clicking on the Question triangle at the top right and then dragging the rectangle to the desired position;
Enter the start and end dates of the activity;
Choose whether to promote and give more visibility on the homepage of your Conditional Survey (the promotion requires the use of 4 credits); in the box on the right you will see the additional expense that you will have totalled for this publication;
Choose whether to save or remove the following choice:

If you believe that what you have compiled can serve as a model for other Conditional Surveys, you can click the “Save as Model” flag and if you want the other flag “Suggest the model to all users. Before being published it must be approved by the Website Operator”; in this case a new Model will be created and reported to the Website Operator who can make it available to everyone, receiving a reward for your help and being able to download a certificate of capacity to be used for your reputation
Since this type of survey can also be used to take quizzes or assessment tests of a person’s skills, you will find an additional check box that allows you to ask who will vote to choose whether to match the answers to their name, and then let you know the choices they have made; obviously it should be clicked only if it is a quiz by answering which the examiner is interested in letting you know the details of his answers and you will be able to extract a complete report;
Once the entry is complete, save your Conditional Survey in draft or decide whether to publish it immediately!
When you have clicked the “PUBLISH” button, if you had chosen to have people not registered on the platform respond to your survey, the page to enter their email addresses will open.

At the end of the insertion, the site sends an email fto the Inventor’s email; moreover it will be notified in the notifications section.

If you want to use an available Model, or see if there is one that can help you, proceed as follows:

Click on the top menu under “Enter” and select the sub-item “Use Model” and choose “Conditional Surveys“;
A page will open with the ordered list of Models that you have created and those available for everyone;
If you find a Model you want to use, you can simply click it and it will open a new page with the same format used to start from scratch for the entering your Conditional Survey, but in which many of the fields are entered
Proceed with entering the remaining fields or replacing the choices you find already filled
Once the entry is complete, save your project in draft or decide whether to publish it immediately!

WHO CAN PARTICIPATE IN MY CONDITIONAL SURVEYS?

In The Best Idea it is you who will choose who will be able to vote on your Conditional Survey, and at the time there are two possibilities:

enter a list of email addresses, using an Excel file in csv format, as it will be proposed to you at the end of the compilation of this format if you make this choice; this possibility is used when it comes to people who are not registered on the platform, but from whom you have obtained authorization to contact them by email, in accordance with the GDPR (General data protection regulation), assuming responsibility for them; obviously you will get a very simple report of the percentages of answers, without the possibility of filtering;
enter one of the Groups you belong to with the relative drop-down list or, if they do not suit you, you can directly create a new one by clicking on the “CREATE ONE” button; in this case you will have all the potential provided by the platform available;

In the future, when we have implemented this possibility, you will be able to choose between four segments of users when publishing the Conditional Surveys:

“All“: this item will allow all those registered on the platform to vote for your Conditional Survey;
“Country“: you can decide to limit the possibility of voting only to users of a country of your choice;
“Group“: currently it is the only possible voice, that allows you to select or create your very own group of users enabled to view and vote on your Conditional Survey;
“Super-Experts“: you can choose to have your Conditional Survey evaluated by the best platform voters associated with the same category as your Conditional Survey.

WHERE DO I HAVE TO GO TO PARTICIPATE IN THE CONDITIONAL SURVEYS?

To participate in the Survey:

if whoever published it has chosen the possibility of including non-registered users participating via the list of email addresses entered at the end of the Survey, the participants will receive an email with a personalized and disposable link to participate in the Survey which, if clicked, will take them to the page to respond to the Survey;
if instead he has chosen to have a group of users registered on the platform participate, each of these users, registered and logged in on The Best Idea platform, will find the Surveys on which to vote, following this path:

Select the item “Vote” in the top menu and click the sub-item “Survey“;
You will be redirected to a page containing all the published Surveys, for which you are authorized to participate, which can be Poll, Multiple Surveys or Conditional Surveys, and at the beginning the relative filtering system with a free text or by Category, Groups to which you belong;
Choose the Conditional Survey you want to participate in by clicking on its title;
You will be redirect to the page where the first question appears, where you will find all the information and material useful to express your preference and then you will be redirect to the next question;
You can click on the “Write to the Inventor” button if you want to ask him questions
You can click on “Notify the Administrator” button, if you want to report content contrary to what is included in the Legal Area, for example concerning threats, religious discrimination, politics or gender or announcing criminal behaviour
After having answered to the last survey of the chain, you will find a button and if you click on it (you are free not to do so) you will explicitly authorize the Website Operator to send you the details of your answers to the person who entered the Conditional Survey, matching it to your name, also authorizing him to contact you (for the law of Privacy);
If you choose for authorization, you can also receive a notification that requires some personal data, including for example the email address, which allows to ask you the authorization (for the law of Privacy) to send you informative material or inviting you for other reserved Conditional Surveys
At the end, you can see all the questions and answers you have given

You can vote only once for each Conditional Survey.

YOUR MULTI-PHASE IN THE BEST IDEA

WHAT IS MULTI-PHASE IN THE BEST IDEA?

Multi-Phase is a method to involve a work group, stimulating the creative process at the request of a Project Manager with the role of facilitator, for the production and communication of Ideas to vote, in response to various business needs such as “Research and development” of a new product, the introduction of “Lean Management” procedures, and more generally to make “innovation”, also using Design Thinking methods.

The Best Idea platform allows all participants to work even remotely, without necessarily having to meet in person, in the times preferred by everyone for a part of the phases that make up the process, and to the Project Manager to prepare all the foreseen development activities, using pre-established models if possible.

All this can be extremely valuable, for example, for the “Research and development” of a new product, dividing the operations in the various phases that make up the process, leaving out only the phases for which the platform cann’t operate, such as the control operations of the feasibility of the solution, its prototyping and listening to the customer, but entering them within the process and its viewing.

HOW DO I ENTER MY GROUP IN THE BEST IDEA?

In the case of Multi-Phase, the Group can for example be composed of some or all employees, or possibly customers or suppliers.

To be able to enter a Group within The Best Idea platform, you must have paid the subscription; you can do this payment even after entering your Group data.

After checking if you meet both the above requirements, proceed as indicated in Groups.

HOW DO I ENTER MY MULTI-PHASE?

When you enter a Multi-Phase project in The Best Idea you become the Project Manager; the program allows you to use an existing Model, choosing among the types of Multi-Phase Models available in response to various business needs, which can still be modified and integrated according to your needs, or you can start from scratch with a completely different type, entering directly the various “Activities” that you deem necessary for the development of the Multi-Phase, organized in “Chapters“.

Inside, each Activity, which provides the choice between a Challenge, a Poll, a Flash or a Project, can be entered by choosing among the categories linked to the business functions that are the target of the Idea, so that the information is organized.

To be able to enter a Multi-Phase within The Best Idea platform you must be registered on the platform and have paid the annual or monthly fee.

After checking if you meet the above requirements, you can first choose whether to start from scratch to enter your Multi-Phase session or use an available Model.

The first phase is to prepare the session in draft form, in order to be able to check it before publishing it and then progressively entering the start and end dates of the activities of the individual “Activities”.

If you want to start from scratch for entering your Multi-Phase session, proceed as follows:

Create a Reference Group, whose name in this case could be the Topic for a specific Multi-Phase goal;
Click on the top menu under “Enter” and select the sub-item “Multi-Phase“. Each Multi-Phase will receive the identification code generated by the system automatically;
In the format that opens you first find the possibility to publish it as a Team (instead of just in your name) by clicking a checkbox and in this case a dropdown menu opens to choose the team among those you are part of;
Under this, the input language English appears;
Fill in all the mandatory fields of the initial part, marked with this symbol: (*); particular attention should be paid to the title (which will appear in the display rectangle) and to the complete description of the purposes;
Choose carefully the category of your project, selecting the Macro-category / Category / Sub-category through the related drop-down menus that open progressively (you can see all the possibilities available by clicking on “View the list of all categories”);
You will then have to choose the Group that will be able to see it to reply, through another dropdown menu or clicking a button to create a new one;
Enter the Description for the 1^stChapter which will include one or more activities;
Instead, you do not have to fill in the “Conclusions” field, which you will fill in only when you have finished the work foreseen by all the activities of that Chapter;
Enter the various “Activities“, one at a time, until the Chapter is completed, ordering them so that they can be easily published in a predetermined order;
Choose whether they are Challenges, Surveys, Flashes or Projects;
You can enter the start and end dates, but if you want you can avoid filling them at the beginning, and then do it as you wish, one activity at a time; the Activities that have completed the expected period of use can’t be modified;
Choose whether to use an available Model for each activity, with different lists depending on whether they are Challenges, Surveys, Flashes or Projects, by clicking the “Use Model” button and then eventually modify it and adapt it to your needs; if you do not click the button you will have all the fields free;
If you have not used an existing Model, fill in all the mandatory fields of the activity, marked with this symbol (*) and different depending on the choice you made between Challenges, Poll, Flashes or Projects;
In all cases you must fill in the fields of Title, Group and Company Area, it is optional to fill in the Description and insert files, for example images, or the link to a YouTube video, obviously leaving blank the text of the “Conclusions” field which you will fill in only when you have finished the work for this specific activity;
In the case of the Challenge you will have to choose the type of response between Flash, Project or Business Plan, while in the case of the Poll you will have to choose the type of Poll (with textual or numerical answers);
Add other Chapters with the related Activities if necessary;
You can always change the order of the various activities or move them in another chapter, and before moving an activity it is better to reduce its size by clicking on the activity triangle at the top right and then dragging the rectangle to the desired position
You can also delete it by clicking on the delete button at the top right of the activity
When you have completed all the Chapters, if you believe that the Multi-Phase that you have compiled can serve as a Model for other Multi-Phase, you can click the “Save as Model” flag and if you want the other flag “Suggest the model to all users. Before being published it must be approved by the Website Operator”; in this case a new Model will be created and reported to the Website Operator who can make it available to everyone, receiving a reward for your help and being able to download a certificate of capacity to be used for your reputation;
Once the entry is complete, save your Multi-Phase.

At the end of the insertion, the site sends an email fto the Inventor’s email; moreover it will be notified in the notifications section.

If you want to use an available Model, or see if there is one that can help you, proceed as follows:

Click on the top menu under “Enter” and select the sub-item “Use Model” and among these the sub-item “Multi-Phase“;
A page will open with the ordered list of models that you have created and those available for everyone;
If you find a Model you want to use, you can simply click it and it will open a new page with the same format used to start from scratch for the entering your Multi-Phase, but in which you can view the complete structure of various “Chapters” and “Activities”, and you can edit them or move the order, completely delete a part or add more, according to your needs;
Proceed with filling the remaining fields or replacing the choices you find already filled;
After completing the entry, save your Multi-Phase in draft.

The second phase is to recall the draft, verify it and enter the start and end dates of the activities of the first “Activity” and then publish it:

You can recall the draft by clicking on the “My Profile” icon in the first line visible at the top of the site, then clicking “Drafts” in the menu row below the main information and “Results as a voter”
Click on “Multi-Phase” of the line below;
Choose the session you want and click on “EDIT DRAFT“;
Check your Multi-Phase session in general and change it if necessary;
Start by entering the start and end date for the first activity and save it;
From time to time repeat the same procedure to enter the dates of the following Activities.

HOW DO I MANAGE THE MULTI-PHASE THAT I CREATED?

To modify the Multi-Phase that I created, also to progressively enter the start and end dates of the activity for the activities following the first, you must follow the following procedure:

After publication, to find this Multi-Phase session, click on the “Profile” icon in the first row visible at the top of the site, then click “Publications” in the menu line just below the main information and the “Results as voter”
Click on “Multi-Phase” of the row below;
Choose the Multi-Phase you wish to manage and click on “EDIT PUBLICATION”

At the end of the activities of a “Activity”, end that can be decided also modifying the end date period to shorten or extend it, you must write the “Conclusions” following the work carried out, on the related free text field, which will be visible to the participants of the “Group”

Depending on the conclusions, you will generally have to modify or integrate the data of the next activity
You can then enter the start and end date of the activity for the next activity and save at the bottom of the page, thus continuing for all subsequent activities
At the end of the activities of the activities of a chapter, you must write the “Conclusions” following the work carried out, on the related free text field, which will be visible to the participants of the “Group”, thus continuing for all the Chapters

To anticipate the end of the activity period of a activity, by stopping the publication of answers to Challenges-Requests-Needs or their vote, or the polls, flashes or projects published by me, you must follow the following procedure:

After publication, to find this Multi-Phase session, click on the “Profile” icon in the first line visible at the top of the site, then click “Publications” of the menu-line just below the main information and to “Results as voter”
Click on “Multi-Phase” of the row below;
Choose the Multi-Phase you wish to manage and click on its “Title“;
You will be sent to the page where all the activities of that Multi-Phase appear with an indication inside if the vote is completed and on the left if it is a Challenge-Request-Need you find the buttons to give the “STOP TO NEW RELATED IDEAS” and the “STOP TO VOTING“, while if it is a Survey, Flash or Projects you have published, only the “ STOP TO VOTING “;
These buttons have an immediate effect and are mainly used for meeting activities;
If it is a Challenge-Request-Need, you will also find the button “SEE ALL THE ANSWERS TO THE CHALLENGE-REQUEST-NEED“.

HOW DO I PARTICIPATE IN MULTI-PHASE IN THE BEST IDEA?

To participate in the Multi-Phase in The Best Idea you must ask the Project Manager in charge of placing you in the group.

To vote the ideas of others you must be registered on the platform while to publish Projects or Flash in response to a Challenge-Request-Need you must have paid the monthly or annual fee.

It is very easy to find the Multi-Phase you can participate in; follow this path:

Select the item “View” and click the sub-item “Multi-Phase“;
You will be redirected to a page containing all the published Multi-Phase that you are enabled to see why you are part of those “Groups”, still in the voting period, and at the beginning the relative filtering system with a free text or by Category, Groups to which you belong;
Choose the Multi-Phase you want to participate in by clicking on its title;
You will be redirected to the page where all the activities of that Multi-Phase appear with an indication inside if the vote is completed and a double arrow “>>” on the right of the new activity in which you can participate;
You can click on this activity and the relevant page opens to answer the expected request, with a Project or a Flash in the case of a Challenge-Request-Need, or with a vote in the case of a Survey or a Flash or a Project;
You can click on the “Write to the Inventor” button if you want to ask them questions;
You can click on the “Notify the Administrator” button, if you want to report content contrary to what is included in the Legal Area, for example concerning threats, religious discrimination, politics or gender or announcing criminal behaviour;
Select your answer and confirm it by pressing the “Vote” button;
If at that moment there are other published Activities of that Multi-Phase for which you still have to give your vote, you can participate in the next one in order of time.

RANKINGS IN THE BEST IDEA

HOW DO I SEE THE BEST IDEA RANKINGS?

To see the rankings of The Best Idea you have to click on the top menu under “View” and select the sub-item “Rankings“.

You must then choose the Ranking you want to view from “Challenges“, “Projects“, “Flashes“, “Business Plan“, “Surveys“, “ Multi-Phase “, “Inventors“.

CHALLENGES RANKING

You will be able to use the filtering system, which you will find at the beginning, for:
1. free text, in which you can enter a keyword to search for a particular topic present in the title or in the short description;
2. Macro-category, Category and Sub-category, being able to stop for the filtering also at the first level (Macro-category) or at the second level (Category);
3. Group that can view them;

You will see the ranking containing all the rows ordered by number of related Projects, in descending order, which provides the following fields by default:
1. Challenge-Request-Need title;
2. the total number of related Ideas (Projects, Flashes or Business Plans);
3. the Macro-category / Category / Sub-category;
4. a button to send a message to the Inventor;

You can choose to click one or more buttons of the additional fields, to integrate those already present, with the following fields:
1. Challenge-Request-Need code;
2. the language;
3. the end of voting date;
4. the Inventor code (if the Inventor is the same user, the row is highlighted);
5. the Multi-Phase from which it derives;

The rows with the results can be ordered for each field
You can select one of the Challenges-Requests-Needs presents, clicking on its;
You will be redirected to the detail page of the Challenge-Request-Need, where you will find all the information and material present for which correlated Projects or Flashes or Business Plans had been requested and the possibility to click the “Write to the Inventor” button, if you want to ask questions, and “Notify me Administrator ” button, if you want to report content contrary to what is included in the Legal Area, for example concerning threats, religious discrimination, politics or gender or announcing criminal behavior;
By clicking on the total number of derived ideas, the relative list of Projects, Flashes or Business Plans will be opened, filtered by the Challenge-Request-Need code.

PROJECT RANKING

You will be able to use the filtering system, which you will find at the beginning, for:
1. free text, in which you can enter a keyword to search for a particular topic present in the title or in the description;
2. Macro-category, Category and Sub-category, being able to stop for the filtering also at the first level (Macro-category) or at the second level (Category);
3. Group that can view them;
4. if deriving from Multi-Phase.

You will be able to see the ranking containing all the rows sorted by average score obtained, in a decreasing manner, which by default provides the following fields, immediately visible from the desktop / tablet, while from smartphone there is an icon to see some fields initially hidden due to problems of space:
1. Project title;
2. the average score calculated with the MEC coefficient;
3. the total number of voters;
4. the Challenge-Request-Need to which it is related;
5. the Macro-category / Category / Sub-category;
6. the “STATISTICS” button;

You can choose to click one or more buttons of the additional fields, to integrate those already present, with the following fields:
1. Project code;
2. the end of voting date;
3. the language;
4. the Inventor code (if the Inventor is the same user, the row is highlighted);
5. if patent or copyright is present;
6. the Multi-Phase from which it derives;

The rows with the results can be ordered for each field, but initially they are sorted by the average score calculated with the MEC coefficient, corrected however with an algorithm considering the number of voters;
You can select one of the Projects presents, clicking on its title;
You will be redirected to the detail page of the Project, where you will find all the information and material present for which it was voted and the possibility to click the “Write to the Inventor” buttons, if you want to ask him questions, and “Notify the Administrator” , if you want to report content contrary to what is included in the Legal Area, as regards, for example, threats, religious, political or gender discrimination or that announce criminal behavior;
You can also view the statistics of a Project by clicking the “STATISTICS” button and you will see the same report present in the “Profile” for the Projects that you have created, but without the filtering system, and the following fields will be present:
1. Project title;
2. Project code;
3. the Macro-category / Category / Sub-category;
4. the choice made for the type of voting public among “All”, a “Nation”, a “Group” or a “Super-expert”;
5. the end of voting date;
6. the detail with the number of votes and the corresponding percentage for each numerical value;
7. the possibility of sending a promotional notification to the Voters who gave a high rating;
8. the graph with the percentage of voters for each numerical value and the average vote;
9. the graph with the percentage of voters for each type of device used (desktop / tablet or smartphone);
10. the geographical map of the countries of origin of the vote;
11. the graph with the percentage of voters by level of studies;
12. the graph with the percentage of voters by age range;
13. the geographical map of the countries of origin of the vote;

You can also click on the “SEE” button, if the button exists because the Project is correlated with a Challenge-Request-Need, and the Challenges-Requests-Needs ranking filtered for that Challenge-Request-Need code will open, so you will only see that one and you can click and see it, or by clicking on the number of Related Projects will open the list of Projects filtered by that Challenge-Request-Need, so you will see all the Projects related to that Challenge-Request-Need and you can see them.

FLASH RANKING

You will be able to use the filtering system, which you will find at the beginning, for:
1. free text, in which you can enter a keyword to search for a particular topic present in the title or in the description;
2. Macro-category, Category and Sub-category, being able to stop for the filtering also at the first level (Macro-category) or at the second level (Category);
3. Group that can view them;
4. if deriving from Multi-Phase.

You will be able to see the ranking containing all the rows sorted by average score obtained, in a decreasing manner, which by default provides the following fields, immediately visible from the desktop / tablet, while from smartphone there is an icon to see some fields initially hidden due to problems of space:
1. Flash title;
2. the average score calculated with the MEC coefficient;
3. the total number of voters;
4. the Challenge-Request-Need to which it is related;
5. the Macro-category / Category / Sub-category;
6. the “STATISTICS” button;

You can choose to click one or more buttons of the additional fields, to integrate those already present, with the following fields:
1. Flash code;
2. the end of voting date;
3. the language;
4. the Inventor code (if the Inventor is the same user, the row is highlighted);
5. the Multi-Phase from which it derives;

The rows with the results can be ordered for each field, but initially they are sorted by the average score calculated with the MEC coefficient, corrected however with an algorithm considering the number of voters;
You can select one of the Flash presents, clicking on its title;
You will be redirected to the detail page of the Flash, where you will find all the information and material present for which it was voted and the possibility to click the “Write to the Inventor” buttons, if you want to ask him questions, and “Notify the Administrator” , if you want to report content contrary to what is included in the Legal Area, as regards, for example, threats, religious, political or gender discrimination or that announce criminal behavior;
You can also view the statistics of a Flash by clicking the “STATISTICS” button and you will see the same report present in the “Profile” for the Flashes that you have created, but without the filtering system, and the following fields will be present:
1. Flash title;
2. Flash code;
3. the Macro-category / Category / Sub-category;
4. the choice made for the type of voting public among “All”, a “Nation”, a “Group” or a “Super-expert”;
5. the end of voting date;
6. the detail with the number of votes and the corresponding percentage for each numerical value;
7. the possibility of sending a promotional notification to the Voters who gave a high rating;
8. the graph with the percentage of voters for each numerical value and the average vote;
9. the graph with the percentage of voters for each type of device used (desktop / tablet or smartphone);
10. the geographical map of the countries of origin of the vote;
11. the graph with the percentage of voters by level of studies;
12. the graph with the percentage of voters by age range;
13. the geographical map of the countries of origin of the vote;

You can also click on the “SEE” button, if the button exists because the Flash is correlated with a Challenge-Request-Need, and the Challenges-Requests-Needs ranking filtered for that Challenge-Request-Need code will open, so you will only see that one and you can click and see it, or by clicking on the number of Related Flashes will open the list of Flashes filtered by that Challenge-Request-Need, so you will see all the Flashes related to that Challenge-Request-Need and you can see them.

BUSINESS PLAN RANKING

You will be able to use the filtering system, which you will find at the beginning, for:
1. free text, in which you can enter a keyword to search for a particular topic present in the title or in the description;
2. Macro-category, Category and Sub-category, being able to stop for the filtering also at the first level (Macro-category) or at the second level (Category);
3. Group that can view them;

You will be able to see the ranking list containing all the rows ordered for a special score summarizing the votes given for the components of the Business Plan, in a decreasing manner, which provides the following fields by default:
1. title of the Business Plan;
2. the special score assigned;
3. the total number of voters;
4. the Challenge-Request-Need to which it is related;
5. the Macro-category / Category / Sub-category;
6. a “STATISTICS” button;

You can choose to click one or more buttons of the additional fields, to integrate those already present, with the following fields:
1. Business Plan code;
2. the description;
3. the end of voting date;
4. the language;
5. the Inventor code (if the Inventor is the same user, the row is highlighted);

You can also click on the “SEE” button, if the button exists because the Business Plan is correlated with a Challenge-Request-Need, and the ranking of the Filtered Challenges-Requests-Needs for that Challenge-Request-Need code will open, so you will only see that one and you can click and view it, or by clicking on the number of related Business Plans will open the ranking of the Business Plans filtered for that Challenge-Request-Need, so you will see all the Business Plans related to that Challenge-Request-Need and you can see them;
The rows with the results can be ordered for each field;
You can select one of the Business Plans presents, clicking on its title;
A page opens with all the “Components” ordered in the “Chapters”;
Inside the rectangle of each Components, there will be the main results, that is:
1. clickable title to see the details;
2. category;
3. the average vote acquired;

Clicking on the “>>” double arrow symbol of a “Component”, it opens the graph with the percentage of voters for each numerical value

SURVEYS RANKING

You will be able to use the filtering system, which you will find at the beginning, for:
1. free text, in which you can enter a keyword to search for a particular topic present in the title or in the short description
2. Macro-category, Category and Sub-category, being able to stop for the filtering also at the first level (Macro-category) or at the second level (Category)
3. Group that can view them;

You will see the ranking containing all the rows ordered by number of Voters, in descending order, which provides the following fields by default:
1. Survey title
2. the choice with the maximum number of Voters (visible only in the case of Single Survey)
3. the percentage of votes taken from that answer (visible only in the case of Single Survey)
4. the total number of Voters
5. the type of Survey between Simple, Multiple or Conditional
6. the Macro-category / Category / Sub-category
7. the “STATISTICS” button

You can choose to click one or more buttons of the additional fields, to integrate those already present, with the following fields:
1. Survey code
2. the language
3. the end of voting date
4. the Inventor code (if the Inventor is the same user, the row is highlighted, and the code is replaced with “MYSELF”)
5. if deriving from Multi-Phase

The rows with the results can be ordered for each field
You can select one of the Surveys presents, clicking on its title;
You will be redirected to the detail page of the Survey, where you will find all the information and material present for which it was voted and the possibility to click the “Write to the Inventor” button, if you want to ask questions, and “Notify me Administrator ” button, if you want to report content contrary to what is included in the Legal Area, for example concerning threats, religious discrimination, politics or gender or announcing criminal behaviour;
You can also see the statistics of a Survey by clicking the “STATISTICS” button and you will see the same report in the “Profile” for the Surveys that you have created, without the filtering system, and in the case of the Multiple or Conditional Survey the component questions, while in the case of the Single Survey you will see the following fields directly:
1. Survey code
2. Survey title
3. the short description
4. the Macro-category / Category / Sub-category
5. the choice made for the type of voting public among “All”, a “Nation”, a “Group” or some “Super-experts”
6. the end of voting date
7. the detail with the number of votes and the corresponding percentage for each choice
8. the graph with the percentage of voters for each choice, in which the references to the answers are letters (a, b, c …), with the relative legend or, in the case of choosing a numerical value between 3 and 10, the graph with the percentage of voters for each numerical value
9. the graph with the percentage of voters for each type of device used (desktop / tablet or smartphone)
10. the geographical map of the countries of origin of the vote
11. the graph with the percentage of voters by level of studies
12. the graph with the percentage of voters by age range

MULTI-PHASE RANKING

You will be able to use the filtering system, which you will find at the beginning, for:
1. free text, in which you can enter a keyword to search for a particular topic present in the title or in the short description;
2. Macro-category, Category and Sub-category, being able to stop for the filtering also at the first level (Macro-category) or at the second level (Category);
3. Group that can view them;

You will see the ranking containing all the rows ordered by publication date of the first activity, in descending order, which provides the following fields by default:
1. Multi-Phase title;
2. the date of publication of the first activity;
3. the Macro-category / Category / Sub-category;

You can choose to click one button of the additional fields, to integrate those already present, with the following field:
1. the code
2. Description;

By clicking on the “SEE STATISTICS” button of one of the Multi-Phase sessions present, a page will open in which the various activities appear and for those for which the period of activity has ended you will find on the right the “SEE DETAIL” button which, if clicked:
1. if it is a Challenge-Request-Need, it will show the ranking of related Projects or Flashes, clickable to see the content;
2. if it is a Project, the average grade obtained, the total number of Voters and the graph with the percentage of voters for each numerical value;
3. if it is a Survey, the choice that obtained the highest number of votes, the total number of Voters and the graph with the percentage of Voters for each choice, with the relative legend.

Instead, you can click on the Title of one of the Multi-Phase sessions present and a page opens with an orderly description of all that Multi-Phase and in particular the descriptions of all the activities and if there have been answers to the Challenges-Requests-Needs you can see them by clicking the relevant button.

INVENTORS RANKING

You will see the ranking containing all the rows ordered by average score obtained, in descending order, which provides the following fields by default:
1. the Inventor code (if the Inventor is the same user, the row is highlighted);
2. average score obtained by Projects;
3. number of votes received (Projects+Flashes+Business Plan+Surveys);
4. number of Projects posted;
5. first voted Idea date (considering Projects, Flash, Surveys and Business Plan);
6. last voted Idea date (considering Projects, Flash, Surveys and Business Plan);
7. a button to send a message to the Inventor;

You can choose to click one or more buttons of the additional fields, to integrate those already present, with the following fields:
1. number of Flashes posted;
2. number of Business Plans posted;
3. number of Surveys posted;
4. number of Challenges-Requests-Needs posted;
5. Country of the Inventor;
6. the language;

The rows with the results can be ordered for each field;
You will be able to select one of the Inventors present, by clicking on the number of his Projects or his Flashes or his Business Plans or his Surveys or his Challenges-Requests-Needs;
The page of the relative ranking will open (Projects, Flashes, Business Plans or Surveys) where only the Inventor’s publications will appear;
As usual, by clicking on the title of one of these, you will be redirected to the detail page, where you will find all the information and the material present for which it was voted and the ability to click the “Write to the Inventor” buttons, if you want to ask them about questions, and “Notify the Administrator”, if you want to report content contrary to what is included in the Legal Area, for example regarding threats, religious, political or gender discrimination or announcing criminal behavior.

VOTERS RANKING

You will see the ranking list containing all the rows ordered by average score obtained, in descending order, which provides the following fields by default:
1. The Voting code (if the Voter is the same user, the line is highlighted);
2. average vote received as Voter for voting Project;
3. average vote received as Voter for voting Flashes;
4. obtained MEC coefficient (if the filtering by category has not been done, the average ME coefficient of the Voter);
5. number of votes given;

You can choose to click one or more buttons of the additional fields, to integrate those already present, with the following fields:
1. Country of the Voter;
2. first Project voted date;
3. last Project voted date;

The rows with the results can be ordered for each field.

MY RESULTS IN THE BEST IDEA

HOW DO I SEE THE RESULTS OF MY IDEAS?

To see the results obtained from your Ideas you have to click on the top menu under “View” and select the sub-item “Statistics of your Ideas” or you can directly click the “Statistics” button in the User Menu at the top.

IN the upper part you will find the average grade that your Projects have taken, divided by macro-category.

In the line just below you can choose whether to click the buttons to see your “Projects” or your “Flashes” or your “Business Plans” or your “Surveys” or your “Multi-Phase“.

PROJECTS

On the left there are rectangles with the Projects I have published, indicating whether it is a stand-alone Project or a Component of a Business Plan or a Multi-Phase Activity.
You can click on the rectangle of a published Project to see the detail with:

Project title
Project code
the Macro-category / Category / Sub-category
the choice made for the type of voting public among “All”, a “Nation”, a “Group” or a “Super-expert”
the end of voting date
the detail with the number of votes and the corresponding percentage for each numerical value;
the graph with the percentage of voters for each numerical value and the average vote;
the graph with the percentage of Voters for each type of device used (desktop / tablet or smartphone)
the geographical map of the countries of origin of the vote
the graph with the percentage of Voters by level of studies
the graph with the percentage of Voters by age range

It is also possible to see the same data by filtering by the following characteristics of the voter, as long as the number of votes received is at least 20 to prevent the vote from being matched to the voter, to be used also simultaneously to obtain a result by crossing the filter selection:

State of residence
Nationality
age range (“<18 years” or “18-35 years” or “36-50 years” or “> 50 years”)
gender (male or female)
level of studies
area of residence: province or region depending on the number of voters
voting made by smartphone or desktop / tablet

Only the split items that did not get 100% of votes in one of the possibilities provided (for example, if 100% of the men voted the “3” score) will be visible, so that there is no risk of recognizing the Voting of the single Voter.

FLASHES

On the left there are rectangles with the Flashes I have published, indicating whether it is a separate Flash or a Component of a Business Plan or a Multi-Phase Activity.
You can click on the rectangle of a published Flash to see the detail with:

Flash title
Flash code
the Macro-category / Category / Sub-category
the choice made for the type of voting public among “All”, a “Nation”, a “Group” or a “Super-expert”
the end of voting date
the detail with the number of votes and the corresponding percentage for each numerical value;
the graph with the percentage of voters for each numerical value and the average vote;
the graph with the percentage of Voters for each type of device used (desktop / tablet or smartphone)
the geographical map of the countries of origin of the vote
the graph with the percentage of Voters by level of studies
the graph with the percentage of Voters by age range

State of residence
Nationality
age range (“<18 years” or “18-35 years” or “36-50 years” or “> 50 years”)
gender (male or female)
level of studies
area of residence: province or region depending on the number of voters
voting made by smartphone or desktop / tablet

BUSINESS PLAN

On the left there are rectangles with the Business Plans that I have published.

You can click on the rectangle of a published Business Plan to see the detail indicating the various “Components” ordered in the “Chapters”, with:

the reference of the Component and the Title (which when clicked shows the Component)
the “VIEW DETAIL” button

SURVEYS

On the left there are rectangles with the Surveys I have published, indicating whether it is a separate Poll or a Question that is part of a Multiple or Conditional Survey or a Multi-Phase Activity.

You can click on the rectangle of a published Survey to see the detail; if it is a Multiple or Conditional Survey, by clicking on it you will see the list of all the Questions included in the selected Survey, a list that can be used in the same way as the Polls; if it is a Poll, you can see the detail of:

Poll title
the Description
the end of voting date
the choice that has obtained the highest number of votes
the total number of Voters
the Macro-category / Category / Sub-category
the choice made for the type of voting public makes ” All “, a “Nation”, a “Group” or a “Super-expert”
the graph with the percentage of Voters for each choice, with the relative legend
the graph with the percentage of Voters for each type of device used (desktop / tablet or smartphone)
the graph with the percentage of Voters by level of studies
the graph with the percentage of Voters by age range
the geographical map of the countries of origin of the vote

State of residence
Nationality
age range (“<18 years” or “18-35 years” or “36-50 years” or “> 50 years”)
gender (male or female)
level of studies
area of residence: province or region depending on the number of voters
voting made by smartphone or desktop / tablet

Only the split items that did not get 100% of votes in one of the possibilities provided (for example, if 100% of the men voted the “b” possibility) will be visible, so that there is no risk of recognizing the Voting of the single Voter.

In the case of a Multiple or Conditional Survey, you will see the various “Questions” ordered in the “Chapters”, with:

the reference of the Question and the Title (which when clicked shows the Question)
the “VIEW DETAIL” button

MULTI-PHASE

On the left there are rectangles with the Multi-Phase you published.

You can click on the rectangle of a published Multi-Phase to see the detail with the various “Activities” sorted in the “Chapters” indicated, with:

the reference of the Activity and the Title (which when clicked shows the Activity)
the “SEE DETAIL” button

HOW DO I SEE MY RESULTS AS VOTER?

To see the results obtained from your Ideas you have to click on the “Profile” icon in the first visible line.
By clicking on the “MEC” button, which you will find inside the page, you will see a table with the details of the votes you have made and which contains the following fields:
1. the voting date
2. Project code and Project title (clickable)
3. the Project category
4. the average grade obtained from that Project
5. the vote you gave to that Project
6. the score you got as a Voter
7. the average score you got as a Voter considering all the votes you’ve made for that category
8. the corresponding MEC score
9. the total number of Voters

By clicking on a Project line, you will be redirected to the Project detail page, where you will find all the information and material for which it was voted

YOUR GROUPS IN THE BEST IDEA

DIVISION OF ROLES

There are several roles within a Group in The Best Idea:

the “ADMINISTRATORS” are those who can modify the user lists within the Group;
the “MASTER MEMBERS” are those who can see all the Ideas (Projects, Flashes, Business Plans, Polls, Surveys), also deriving from a activity of the Multi-Phase, both of the other “master members” and of the “members for confidential ideas”, and who can participate in their vote or in the case of Challenges-Requests-Needs, answer with an Idea; they are also empowered to authorize the release (one at a time) of the display of the Ideas and Challenges-Requests-Needs published by the “members for reserved ideas”, a release that must also have prior authorization from his creator, “member for reserved ideas”;
the “MEMBERS FOR CONFIDENTIAL IDEAS” are those who can only see all the Ideas of the “main members”, and who can participate in their vote or in the case of Challenges-Requests-Needs, answer with an Idea; they can also see some of the Ideas of the other “members for confidential ideas”, those that obtained authorization to release from one of the “main members” and the subsequent prior authorization also of his creator, “member for confidential ideas”;

HOW DO I ENTER A GROUP IN THE BEST IDEA?

The Group in The Best Idea is used to limit the viewing and voting of what has been published to a group of people you want to involve, as determined by those who publish them through a choice in the format for entering.

To be able to enter a Group within The Best Idea platform, you must be registered on the platform and have paid the annual or monthly fee; you can do this payment even after entering your Group data.

You can also add in one fell swoop the “main members” and the “members for confidential ideas” that I had already included in a “TEAM“, which is nothing more than a Group already created, maintaining the same division between main members and members for the private ideas they have within the team.

After checking whether you meet both of the above requirements, proceed as follows:

Click on the menu “Enter” at the top and select the sub-item “Group“;
Enter the “Group Name“;
Enter the various user email adresses of the “ADMINISTRATORS” of the group directly or through an Excel file “csv”;
Enter the various user email adresses of the “MASTER MEMBERS“, directly or through an Excel file “csv”;
Enter the various user email adresses of the “MEMBERS FOR CONFIDENTIAL IDEAS“, directly or through an Excel file “csv”;
Enter, one at a time, the “TEAMS” that join the Group, through the drop-down menu;
Save your Group in draft or decide whether to create it right away!

PROJECTS THAT HAVE ACTIVE A CROWDFUNDING IN THE BEST IDEA

WHERE CAN I FIND PROJECTS THAT HAVE A CROWDFUNDING ACTIVE?

There is a special page of the platform The Best Idea that shows the list of Projects that have active a Crowdfunding, for which the Inventors, during the entering of the Project, have filled the related fields to give complete information to the possible investors:

link to the crowdfunding website page where to find information
any presentation site
required capital
minimum amount
minimum subscription
collection start date
collection end date

To be able to view it is only necessary to be registered on the platform, and in this case you can proceed in the following way:

Click on the top menu under “View” and select the sub-item “Crowdfundings“;
You will be redirected to a page containing all published projects for which the Inventors have filled the fields related to the Crowdfunding with at the beginning the relative filtering system by Category or with a free text, in which you can enter a keyword or the Challenge-Request-Need to which they answer, or by the Group involved;
Choose the Project to be seen by clicking on its title;
You will be redirected to the detail page of the Project, where you will find all the information and useful material to evaluate your possible interest in participating in crowdfunding;
You can click on the “Write to the Inventor” button if you want to ask them questions;
You can click on “Notify the Administrator” button, if you want to report content contrary to what is included in the Legal Area, for example concerning threats, religious discrimination, politics or gender or announcing criminal behaviour

YOUR PROFILE IN THE BEST IDEA

WHAT IS IN YOUR PROFILE

To see everything in your profile, click on the “Profile” icon in the first visible line.

In the first part you will find the MAIN INFORMATION and immediately below the buttons to do the following:

EDIT YOUR PROFILE – where you can enter and modify all the necessary data
DRAFT – where you find everything you haven’t published yet because it’s still incomplete
PUBLICATIONS – where you find everything you’ve already published, but you can modify it
BUDGET – where you find the situation of your purchases
AWARDS & CERTIFICATES – where you can verify the authenticity of the certificates of other users and the status of your prizes

MAIN INFORMATION AND RESULTS AS INVENTOR AND AS VOTER

Find here:

Name and Surname
the secret code
e-mail address
the month of registration on the The Best Idea platform
if you have a subscription and in this case the expiry date
the number of credits you have
the link to suggest the registration to others
the possibility to use your credits to pay the registration fee for others
the number of Projects, Flashes, Business Plans, Surveys and Challenges-Requests-Needs published and at the bottom of the line the “DOWNLOAD INVENTOR CERTIFICATE” button
the result as a Voter
the “MEC” button (clickable) and at the bottom of the line the “DOWNLOAD VOTER CERTIFICATE” button

By clicking on the “MEC” button, you will see a table with the details of the votes you have made and which contains the following fields:

the voting date
Project code and Project title (clickable)
the Project category
the average grade obtained from that Project
the vote you gave to that Project
the score you obtained as a Voter
the average score you obtained as a Voter considering all the grades you have taken for that category
the corresponding MEC score for that category
the corresponding MEC score
the total number of voters

By clicking on a Project line, you will be redirected to the Project detail page, where you will find all the information and material for which it was voted

WHAT IS THE ``MEC``

The MEC (Multiplier of Experience by Category) is the multiplicative coefficient linked to the ability to best represent the majority of voters for a given category of Projects.

The more your vote is relevant to the one given by the majority of users, the more your assessment will affect the following votes you will make; on the contrary, the more your vote deviates from the majority, the less it will influence in the next voting.

Your vote is not however compared only with the average score obtained by that Project, but a much more refined calculation system is used, which allows you to choose according to conscience, as it is not useful to obtain a higher grade to make reasoning related to the probability of approaching to the average.

Every time you make an assessment, the platform calculates your vote in relation to what is given by the majority of Voters, which will average with the other votes you have taken in the past, to get a list of the best voters that will be visible.

EDIT PROFILE

In the first part, you can integrate or modify and save here your personal data, which are used to allow the Inventor of the Project, of the Flash, of the Business Plan or of the Survey to obtain the report of the vote divided by type of Voter, using the following filters:

State of residence
Nationality
age range (“<18 years” or “18-35 years” or “36-50 years” or “> 50 years”)
gender (male or female)
level of studies
area of residence: province or region depending on the number of voters
voting made by smartphone or desktop / tablet

Please note that only the split items that did not get 100% of votes in one of the possibilities provided (for example, if 100% of the men voted the “3” score) will be visible, so that there is no risk to recognize the Voting of the single Voter.

In the second part, you can integrate or modify and save here your billing information.

DRAFTS

View your drafts for Projects, Challenges-Requests-Needs, Surveys, Multiple or Conditional Surveys, Groups, Multi-Phase and Business Plan; you can filter the view by type.

After clicking on the chosen type, it will be possible to modify the draft by clicking on “CHANGE DRAFT” inside the individual rectangles, modify it and eventually publish it.

Depending on the case, other buttons for specific operations also appear.

PUBLICATIONS

View what you’ve published for Projects, Challenges-Requests-Needs, Flashes, Surveys, Groups, Multi-Phase and Business Plan; you can click the types buttons and choose the relevant display.

In the various cases there will be rectangles for each object and it will be possible to do the following.

CHALLENGES

click on the “code – title” in a published Challenge-Request-Need to open it and see the details
click on “EDIT PUBLICATION” if it is still in the voting phase, to change its duration, with the possibility of increasing it within the maximum period of 30 days, including those already passed from publication, or reduce it to close early, or if it is already the voting period ended, to extend the display to another “Group” of users by choosing the duration of the new voting period
click on “HIDE PUBLICATION” if you decide to withdraw the publication
click on “STOP THE VOTE” if you decide to terminate the voting right away
click on “STOP TO NEW RELATED IDEAS” if you decide to immediately terminate the possibility of publishing ideas in response to the Challenge-Request-Need
click on “RELATED IDEAS” and you will go to Project or Flash Ranking or Business Plan to see the list of related ideas that have been published, with details of:

1. code
2. title
3. the short description
4. the end of voting date
5. the average grade obtained
6. the total number of Voters
7. the Macro-category / Category / Sub-category

click on “DOWNLOAD THE CERTIFICATE” printable, in which the following fields will appear:
1. certificate code (unique number so that others can verify its authenticity)
2. name and surname
3. code and title of the Challenge-Request-Need
4. total number of related ideas published
5. position in the ranking among all the Challenges-Requests-Needs at the time of the unloading

PROJECTS

click on the “code – title” in a published Project to open it and see the details
click on “EDIT PUBLICATION” if it is still in the voting phase, to change its duration, with the possibility of increasing it within the maximum period of 30 days, including those that have already passed since publication, or reduce it to close early, or if it is already the voting period ended, to extend the display to another “Group” of users by choosing the duration of the new voting period
click on “HIDE PUBLICATION” if you decide to withdraw the publication
click on “STOP TO VOTE” if you decide to terminate the voting right away
click on “STATISTICS” to see the results for that Project, with the details of:
Project code
Project title
the short description
the end of voting date
the average grade obtained (calculated with MEC)
the total number of Voters
the Macro-category / Category / Sub-category
the choice made for the type of voting public among “All”, a “Nation”, a “Group” or a “Super-expert”
the graph with the percentage of Voters for each numerical value
the graph with the percentage of Voters for each type of device used (desktop / tablet or smartphone)
the graph with the percentage of Voters by level of studies
the graph with the percentage of Voters by age range
the geographical map of the countries of origin of the vote
click on “DOWNLOAD THE CERTIFICATE” printable, in which the following fields will appear:
1. certificate code (unique number so that others can verify its authenticity)
2. name and surname
3. code and title of the Project
4. average score obtained
5. position in the ranking among all the Projects at the time of the unloading

FLASHES

click on the “code – title” in a published Flash to open it and see the details
click on “EDIT PUBLICATION” if it is still in the voting phase, to change its duration, with the possibility of increasing it within the maximum period of 30 days, including those that have already passed since publication, or reduce it to close early, or if it is already the voting period ended, to extend the display to another “Group” of users by choosing the duration of the new voting period
click on “HIDE PUBLICATION” if you decide to withdraw the publication
click on “STOP TO VOTE” if you decide to terminate the voting right away
click on “STATISTICS” to see the results for that Flash, with the details of:
1. Flash code
2. Flash title
3. the short description
4. the end of voting date
5. the average grade obtained
6. the total number of Voters
7. the Macro-category / Category / Sub-category
8. the choice made for the type of voting public among “All”, a “Nation”, a “Group” or a “Super-expert”
9. the graph with the percentage of Voters for each numerical value
10. the graph with the percentage of Voters for each type of device used (desktop / tablet or smartphone)
11. the graph with the percentage of Voters by level of studies
12. the graph with the percentage of Voters by age range
13. the geographical map of the countries of origin of the vote

click on “DOWNLOAD THE CERTIFICATE” printable, in which the following fields will appear:
1. certificate code (unique number so that others can verify its authenticity)
2. name and surname
3. code and title of the Flash
4. average score obtained
5. position in the ranking among all the Flashes at the time of the unloading

BUSINESS PLAN

click on “EDIT PUBLICATION” to open it and make changes
click on “HIDE PUBLICATION” if you decide to withdraw the publication
click on the “STOP THE VOTE” button if you decide to immediately terminate the voting option of the entire Business Plan
click on the “code – title” of a published Business Plan and a page opens with all the “Components” ordered in the “Chapters”.
Inside the rectangle of each component, there will be:
1. the reference of the component
2. the title
3. the short description
4. the full description

By clicking on the double arrow “>>”symbol, the relative ranking is opened

SURVEYS

click on the “code – title” in a published survey to open it and see its details; if it is a Multiple or Conditional Survey, clicking it you will see the list of all the Surveys Components related to the selected one, a list usable in the same way as the Polls
click on “EDIT PUBLICATION” if it is still in the voting phase, to change its duration, with the possibility of increasing it within the maximum period of 30 days, including those already passed from publication, or reduce it to close early, or if it is already the voting period ended, to extend the display to another “Group” of users by choosing the duration of the new voting period
click on “HIDE PUBLICATION” if you decide to withdraw the publication
click on “STOP TO VOTE” if you decide to terminate the voting right away
click on “STATISTICS” to see the results for that Survey, with the details of:
1. Survey code
2. Survey title
3. the short description
4. the end of voting date
5. the choice that has obtained the highest number of votes
6. the total number of Voters
7. the Macro-category / Category / Sub-category
8. the choice made for the type of voting public makes ” All “, a “Nation”, a “Group” or a “Super-expert”
9. the graph with the percentage of Voters for each choice, with the relative legend
10. the graph with the percentage of Voters for each type of device used (desktop / tablet or smartphone)
11. the graph with the percentage of Voters by level of studies
12. the graph with the percentage of Voters by age range
13. the geographical map of the countries of origin of the vote

click on “DOWNLOAD THE CERTIFICATE” printable, in which the following fields will appear:
1. certificate code (unique number so that others can verify its authenticity)
2. name and surname
3. code and title of the Survey
4. total number of Voters
5. position in the ranking among all the Surveys at the time of the unloading

MULTI-PHASE

click on the “code – title” of a published Multi-Phase and a page opens with all the “Activities” ordered in the “Chapters” where the ones for which the period to operate is highlighted with more marked color.
Inside the rectangle of each activity, there will be:
1. the reference of the activity
2. the “STOP TO RELATED IDEAS” button to immediately conclude the possibility of operating within that activity by voting on Projects or Surveys or responding to the Challenges-Requests-Needs
3. the “STOP TO VOTE” button if you decide to immediately terminate the voting option
4. the type of activity (between Project, Challenge-Request-Need or Survey) and the title
5. the short description
6. the complete description
7. the activity end date or the word “NOT VOTED” if it is still open
8. the result, a text field written by the Project Manager at the end of the activity period or the words “WAITING TO DO” if it is still open

Clicking on the double arrow “>>” symbol of a closed “activity”, the ranking is opened which depending on the case:

1. if it is a necessity, the ranking of the related Projects or Flashes opens, clickable to see the contents
2. if it is a Project, the ranking of that Project opens
3. if it is a Survey, the ranking of that Survey opens

GROUPS

All the Groups of which you are Administrator appear and you can click “VIEW THE GROUP” or “CHANGE THE GROUP”

BUDGET

You can monitor the orders placed, for which you can download the relevant invoice, in addition to the current situation of the movements made with your credits.

PRIZES AND CERTIFICATES

You can check the validity of certificates obtained from other Users by viewing their contents, if you know and simultaneously insert both the “unique control code” of the certificate and the “surname” of the user who claims to have obtained it.

You can also find the list of prizes you have obtained and download the contents.