Case Study: Law firm Kennedys crowdsources 100+ ideas and greenlights 6 prototypes with Ideawake

Creating future products and delivering modern legal services to clients via technology

Kennedys, a global leader in legal innovation (developer of products such as KLAiM), needed a way to surface new business models and modern legal services while giving its 2,000+ employees across several continents a voice in shaping the firm’s future. To do this they partnered with Ideawake to launch an internal innovation program that would crowdsource ideas from staff at all levels.

Ideawake powered the Kennedys Ideas Lab (launched July 2017), working with Kennedys’ R&D team on marketing, a live kickoff webinar and weekly coaching to drive participation. The program generated 100+ ideas from 811 employees (41% engagement), 200 comments and 295 votes, and led to six projects being greenlit for prototyping with the original idea submitters leading development — all enabled by Ideawake.

Kennedys

Richard West

Head of Innovation