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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 [...]

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 [...]

Tech Ed is cooking down in New Orleans.  We turned up the heat even further by unveiling Cim v1.1 for SP2010.  If you are there, get over to booth 345 and check it out.  For the rest of us, I’ll walk you through a few screenshots to highlight some changes in Cim v1.1.
First, it [...]

In the last few posts, I’ve written quite a bit about the general Idea Management space, best practices, and how CorasWorks Idea Management for SharePoint is designed to support these requirements. Let me take a moment and point out some product marketing resources.
The main place to go is the Idea Management solution landing page [...]

In my previous post, I went into detail about moving to a proactive, event-driven approach for driving “ideation” and the different types of idea communities including Standing Communities, Challenges, Campaigns, and Contests.  In this article, I will drill down into 4 business scenarios and look at the more end-to-end process of planning your activities.
We’ll [...]