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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Yup.  Yesterday, was a big release for us of our mobile adapter and initial mobile-enabled apps by CorasWorks and partners.  Tonight, I’ve blogged about a business-oriented Idea Community and a socially-oriented IT Project management application portal. You may wonder what is going on…
What you are seeing with CorasWorks is the Enterprise 2.0/3.0 convergence.  Yes, its [...]

Communities are great ways to increase the collaborative effectiveness of SharePoint.  Spirit is launching a new version of its micro-community with the release of its Community Services Suite v1.2 in April.  Here is a quick preview video of this new module.
 Click here to watch the preview video (5 minutes)
The micro-community v1.2 is a module of [...]

Its been a few days since I left Las Vegas and my 8,000 new SharePoint friends at the SharePoint 2009 conference.  I’ve had time to come down off the high and think a bit about SP2010 and the future.  Instead of telling you my top 10 features of SharePoint 2010, I’ll summarize what I saw [...]