groups ideas into general areas pertaining to what kind of benefit or impact the idea would have.

defines an organizational initiative, or describes a problem or opportunity for which management is seeking ideas.

describes the problem to be solved by ideas submitted to the Expedition.

is a group of users, assigned by the River Guide, who are responsible for analyzing and scoring all of the ideas submitted and making recommendations on each idea's final disposition.

administers the IdeaRiver, adding and maintaining users, groups, expeditions, idea categories, MASS scoring questions, and the templates and modules used throughout the application.

reports the overall results of a set of MASS questions used to analyze the ideas submitted to an Expedition to determine final disposition.

  champions an Expedition to encourage creative ideas that solve an organizational problem or support an objective.

describes where in the IdeaRiver flow a specific idea is.  Stages include:  Submitted, in Review,