December 2010 Sponsor – Brightidea

Thank you to Brightidea for sponsoring Blogging Innovation for December 2010.

Recently, Brightidea announced the latest release of its Social Innovation Management Suite. The Brightidea Innovation Suite is a one-of-a-kind ‘Facebook-style’ platform that allows Global 2000 businesses to monitor the social process of innovation from concept to cash. The integrated nature of the suite allows for a clear hand-off between stages in the innovation pipeline while maintaining an end-to-end system of record of all innovation-related activity.

The Innovation Suite release is the distillation of over 10 years of experience in the field, and over a year in development. The release incorporates several thousand enhancement requests made from our customers, partners and employees. The suite includes:

• WebStorm – The industry leading online brainstorm tool has been upgraded to include: one-click creation of innovation communities, advanced idea management including clustering and collections, and best-of-breed flexibility, configurability and extensibility for custom workflows and widget layouts.
• Switchboard – Creates a next step for every idea. No longer will good ideas sit idle; with Switchboard you can convert ideas into Proposals (an industry first), set up private social collaboration rooms to allow teams to develop concepts, and leverage powerful multi-round scorecarding functionality to make better business decisions faster.
• Pipeline – Pipeline is a social project tracking tool that allows innovation teams to: share progress on key milestones and stage-gates, track financial investments and results, and create social project pages with activity feeds that make it easy to keep managers and interested parties up-to-date on progress.

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If you are implementing innovation management software to better manage your innovation process and deliver on your innovation strategy, I encourage you to add Brightidea to your consideration set. You really can’t manage innovation successfully with e-mail or paper submissions.

For more information, please visit www.brightidea.com.

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Braden Kelley is the editor of Blogging Innovation and founder of Business Strategy Innovation, a consultancy focusing on innovation and marketing strategy. Braden is also the author of the forthcoming book Stoking Your Innovation Bonfire from John Wiley & Sons.