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In my last post, I introduced a new way to leverage Cim for group-to-group Channels that increase interactivity.  In this article, we are going to look at a business scenario that takes the Channel approach and integrates it with a more standard innovation management workstream.  The scenario is IT Requirements Gathering and the solution provides [...]

A couple weeks back I got wind of a customer that wanted to address a very straightforward problem – getting Marketing and Sales to work better together.  This is an area that can benefit every commercial organization.  With a bit of inspiration, we came up with a rather nifty way of addressing this challenge by [...]

I just posted an article about Social Workstreams vs. Workflow.  While I am still in the “flow” mentally, let’s talk about the fact that ideas are generated and can flow in two different directions. The direction of flow makes a big difference in the application. This is reminiscent of the classic AC (alternating current) or [...]

I’ve been working with a customer recently that is implementing CorasWorks Idea Management (Cim) for enterprise Best Practices management.  This is a very expansive business process.  Recently, we discussed the design with executives and we got to talking about how the new business process differed from workflow and what the impact on “the way we [...]

A very common business process, particularly for the SharePoint community, is creating knowledge used by the organization or external communities.  R3 Business Solutions, has created the Knowledge Factory add-on for CorasWorks Idea Management, that leverages social features of Cim to improve the process of tranforming ideas and questions into knowledge that is interactive and dynamic.   [...]

The driver to adopt Idea Management comes from two primary directions.  One is the desire to tap into your community for more and better ideas.  The other is to extend existing (or new) business processes to get more input and interaction from a broader audience.  Usually, people are coming from one or the other perspective.  [...]

Which comes first, new products or new markets?  In my last blog I did a primer on Cim for New Products.  While that is the deliverable, there is a great deal of research that says that the place to start is with new market innovations vs. new products.  In this article, I’ll provide some background [...]

New product innovation is a core business scenario for CorasWorks Idea Management on SharePoint (Cim).   Cim allows you to tap into your workforce (internal or external) for the ideas to fuel your innovation objectives.  This is a great value to augment existing processes.  But, that is just the start of a successful new product innovation [...]

New Product Development and Process Improvement are obvious applications for CorasWorks Idea Management (Cim).  Our creative customers are starting to enlighten us with not so obvious ones.  Here is a good one – tapping into your workforce to generate ideas, input and information for a response to an RFP and pushing it into your Proposal [...]

In previous articles on CorasWorks Idea Management (Cim) I’ve talked about the full solution and the business approaches to using Cim to drive your innovation process.  In this article, I’ll look at how you would use Cim for a specific business scenario.  It is a 3-phase, end-to-end workstream for process improvements that moves ideas from [...]