Idea Management
How a WordPress plugin can help to implement Kaizen’s philosophy of continuous improvement.
01_THE BRIEF
The idea behind the project was to solve some internal issues regarding the company’s continuous improvement policy. The team needed a tool to master and administer the ideas that each member of the team could post to the C-level Management to improve the company’s workflow. We came up with a WordPress plugin for internal use only. The plugin enables an employee to post ideas that are later resolved by the management, the tool guarantees that all the issues are dealt with and nothing get lost. Managers can post a challenge to the team that is later addressed by the staff to come up with the best possible solution. The project was implemented according to user stories White Label Coders developed together with the client. All the designs were provided by the client.
02_WHAT WE'RE PROUD OF
In a relatively short time, we created the prototype functionality of the social media system, which helped in the evaluation of the client’s idea. Based on customer feedback, we can now prepare a development plan for a full-fledged product as an independent plugin for implementation on various WordPress sites.
03_THE DETAILS
The project was realized as a plugin for WordPress, based on BuddyBoss theme and plugin. Backend is written in PHP using Advanced Custom Fields PRO. To enable a better user experience, the plugin uses AJAX. The frontend is written in Sass and jQuery. The development environment uses WordPress plugins boilerplate using Webpack and NPM. We used the following libraries in the project, jQuery and Moment.js
04_THE CLIENT
Do Tank is a diverse collection of entrepreneurs, business designers, seasoned consultants, visual artists, and researchers. They approach clients’ challenges using design thinking, visual skills, and simple yet powerful tools for structuring and capturing important conversations. Their work leverages digital (think animations and video) and analog tools (mainly markers and sticky notes!) to drive business rigor, promote experimentation, build consensus, and move teams to action – in pursuit of amazing results their organizations can achieve pride of.