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title: Managing ideas using Innovation Management
description: Use the features and capabilities of Innovation Management to capture, analyze, and manage your ideas. As an idea manager, manage submitted ideas by reviewing them, making modifications, or deleting outdated ones, identifying duplicates, and updating and tracking their state.
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# Managing ideas using Innovation Management

Use the features and capabilities of Innovation Management to capture, analyze, and manage your ideas. As an idea manager, manage submitted ideas by reviewing them, making modifications, or deleting outdated ones, identifying duplicates, and updating and tracking their state.

-   **[Submit an idea](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/it-business-management/innovation-management/submit-idea-in-idea-portal.md)**  
Submit an idea for a product, feature, enhancement, or change in the Idea Portal for others to vote on. Select categories relevant to the idea and, if useful, attach files to add details.
-   **[View, filter, and sort ideas](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/it-business-management/innovation-management/view-filter-sort-ideas.md)**  
View ideas submitted by you or all submitted ideas. Filter and sort the ideas based on idea state, category, or date.
-   **[Collaborate on ideas](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/it-business-management/innovation-management/collaborate-on-an-idea.md)**  
Use the comment option to discuss ideas and exchange information about ideas. Up-vote or down-vote an idea to register your level of interest and support for an idea. Subscribe to an idea to track its progress.
-   **[Manage ideas](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/it-business-management/innovation-management/manage-ideas.md)**  
As an idea manager, manage submitted ideas by reviewing them, making modifications, or deleting outdated ones, identifying duplicates, and updating and tracking their state.
-   **[Evaluate an idea](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/it-business-management/innovation-management/evaluate-an-idea.md)**  
Review submitted ideas and then accept or reject them.
-   **[Create a task for an idea](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/it-business-management/innovation-management/create-a-task-for-an-idea.md)**  
Create a task for planning and developing an accepted idea.
-   **[Train the similarity solution for Innovation Management to find similar ideas](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/it-business-management/innovation-management/train-similarity-solution-im.md)**  
Train the Similar Ideas solution definition included within the Predictive Intelligence for Ideation capability to find related ideas when submitting an idea or viewing ideas in the Idea Portal.
-   **[PPM PIWB template - Find similar ideas](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/it-business-management/innovation-management/ppm-piwb-idea.md)**  
Use a guided template that walks you through training the Similar Ideas solution definition for finding similar ideas.

**Parent Topic:**[Innovation Management](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ServiceNow/ServiceNowDocs/australia/markdown/australia/it-business-management/innovation-management/innovation-management-landing.md)

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