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Going from idea to implemenation

We all innovate and more often than we realize. Whether we are improving a work process, making changes to a product or thinking of better ways to promote a service.

Innovation always starts with a need. Than there's an idea. Sometimes it's clear but often we need to gather knowledge and opinions to formulate the idea. Once we have formulated the idea we go towards implementing it. The challenge of innovation lies in effectively linking the need, idea and implementation. There needs to be a process in place, whether formal or informal.

That is why we have spent a lot of time thinking about how we can provide a solution that is flexible enough to serve the needs of a large customer base but still effectively support each organization's unique processes. We found that both our software's usability and helping the customer align our solution with their process are in many cases equally important.

When thinking of usability it is important that ideas can be easily shared, voted and ranked. Then it should be possible to close the idea and move towards implementation. Choosing collaborators, assigning roles and tasks, and working on tasks with a clear overview. Supporting a process through our solution we do by helping our customer identify their processes, organizational specific needs and type of users. Organizing workshops for key users has proven a great way to not only discover best practices but also find new ways of collaborating thereby enhancing an innovation culture.

We see that many solutions either focus on the idea management part or on the implementation (project management). Some research suggests that innovation often fails because organizations tend to invest more on the ideation part then the actual implementation. Our view is that to be productive in a networked environment, where people often do not see each other or innovation happens ad hoc, it is crucial to link the need, idea and the implementation.

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  • Yritystoimi, yleinen

Kategoriat

  • idea management software
  • gamification
  • team collaboration
  • staff productivity
  • social media
  • social gaming
  • project management
  • partner collaboration
  • online collaboration
  • innovation
  • enterprise social networking
  • enterprise 2.0
  • customer collaboration

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Bart Schrooten

Lehdistön yhteyshenkilö Co-founder Marketing and Sales +358 400 5454 87

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