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Dentsu Inc’s professional organizations, Dentsu Business Design Square and Dentsu Innovation Initiative, together with Mimir Inc and VISITS Technologies Inc have started providing “Expert Idea 500” service.

The new service aims to accelerate idea creation and help businesses start new projects based on professional advice of over 100 top specialists from various fields.

While market research company Mimir provides link to its global network of top specialists from various fields, AI developer VISITS Technologies offers its innovative solution “ideagram”, an algorithm designed to evaluate ideas.

Over 100 top specialists are selected from database of Japan’s 6,000 experts, and around 500-1000 ideas are speedily collected within one-month timeframe with the help of ideagram.

Subsequently, Dentsu categorizes and prioritizes ideas and supports the creation of concepts for innovative new businesses and proposals for specific businesses based on the ideas collected.

The company aims to provide new value to society by providing support for the creation of innovation by speeding up the review of new businesses, thereby bringing the benefits of speeding up decision-making in the R&D investment area and examining partners.

Original Text: https://ampmedia.jp/2020/04/16/dentsu-11/