Case Study: Polaris Industries achieves 80% faster innovation and multiple bestselling vehicles with Planview Spigit

Driving Breakthrough Innovation Through Crowdsourcing

Polaris Industries, a Minnesota-based maker of motorcycles, snowmobiles, ATVs and neighborhood electric vehicles, is built on an employee-driven culture of innovation. Its Ideate/Visioneering program produced great ideas but was entirely manual—fragmented, slow, and siloed—making feedback, visibility, executive sponsorship and predictable implementation difficult.

After implementing Spigit’s crowdsourcing and innovation-management platform, Polaris automated the ideation-to-execution process and cut analysis and implementation time by 80%. The program generated hundreds of ideas (a recent challenge produced 175), helped bring four bestselling vehicles to market — including the Slingshot and EV Ranger — and delivered millions of dollars in incremental revenue.

Polaris

Joe Laurin

Visioneering Manager