ImprovementRuns in Microsoft TeamsAvailablePower CI
Continuous Improvement & Ideas Software
Continuous improvement right inside Microsoft Teams – from idea to PDCA project to measurable impact.
All Features
… and much more. We continuously extend the app with new features.
Ideas & participation
4 featuresCapture, rate and vote on ideas and make participation visible.
Capture & rate ideas
Capture improvement ideas with category, department, effort and benefit and track their status from submission to implementation.
Voting & comments
Employees vote on ideas and discuss them in comments – the best ideas appear as top ideas on the dashboard.
Turn ideas into projects
Convert approved ideas into a PDCA project with one click, without entering data twice.
Team ranking & participation
Show contributions and points per person and recognise participation in the improvement process in a ranking.
Projects, actions & complaints
4 featuresPDCA projects, tasks, complaints and effectiveness checks.
PDCA Projects
Guide projects through Plan, Do, Check and Act – including team, progress and due dates.
Task Kanban
Assign actions with owner, priority and due date, filter “My tasks” and spot overdue items on the Kanban board.
Complaint Management
Handle customer, supplier and internal complaints with immediate action, root-cause analysis and corrective and preventive actions.
Effectiveness Check
Check, rate and document the effectiveness of actions at the defined measurement date.
Impact, reports & AI
5 featuresMeasure impact, analyse, report with AI and export.
Impact Measurement
Prove saved cost (CHF) and hours, quality gains and implemented ideas per project and department, and analyse them over time.
Dashboard & Analytics
Open ideas, active projects, open tasks and savings plus PDCA phases, categories and trends in interactive charts.
Reports & PDF Export
Reports in two areas: run saved report definitions at any time or create new reports with the AI generator – as PDFs with your logo and timestamp.
AI Support – Transparently Controlled
Idea assistant, AI project summaries and AI report generator; each AI feature can be enabled individually, the provider (Azure OpenAI) selected, or AI disabled entirely.
List export to Excel
Export lists as CSV that Excel opens directly with correct columns and special characters.
Notifications & collaboration
3 featuresReminders, escalations, Teams feed and people from the directory.
Reminders & Escalation
Automatic reminders for task deadlines, complaint deadlines and measurement dates, including escalation to defined recipients when overdue.
Notifications in Teams & by email
Notices appear in the Teams activity feed and by email – configurable per event in the settings.
People from the Microsoft directory
Select owners and team members directly from your Microsoft 365 directory instead of typing names.
Platform & administration
7 featuresTeams, SharePoint, roles, 10 languages, setup and demo mode.
Guided Setup & Diagnostics
In-app onboarding: admin consent, SharePoint connection, master data and starter data – with ongoing status checks and diagnostics.
Team, Roles & Permissions
Manage team members by department and control admin and user rights via Entra ID groups.
Master Data & Branding
Maintain departments, locations and categories centrally; adapt accent colour and company logo and choose whether the logo appears on the dashboard, in the navigation or only in reports.
Multi-Language
Interface in 10 languages: German, English, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Swedish, Norwegian, Polish and Dutch – individual texts can also be overridden.
Attachments, History & Global Search
Attach documents to ideas, projects and complaints, trace changes and search all records globally.
Teams Integration & SharePoint
Runs as a Teams app with single sign-on, deep links and automatic theme adaptation; all data stays in your own SharePoint.
Demo mode
Try Power CI with sample data before connecting your own SharePoint site.
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