Iknow has extensive experience in idea management – the facilitation, capture, and dissemination of ideas for their use in new products, marketing programs, processes, and other types of intellectual assets. The tools used in conducting the idea management process have specific components – in terms of collaboration and annotation, and in terms of allowing fuzzy searches on terms to obtain broadly related references. These tools connect with other applications in a comprehensive knowledge management suite featuring portals and content management systems. Iknow’s experience in idea management implies both a focused process for structuring an idea generation process, and ensuring that ideas are captured in ways that reliably lead to enhanced innovation and which consistently provide business benefit.
Idea Management is an emerging area in the emergence of a high performance workplace. It is one of the keys to accelerating the capacity of an organization to innovate. Generating and distributing new concepts can be facilitated, and greatly enhanced, by using software that allows for various modes of interaction with a wide range of digital media (documents, drawings, spreadsheets, project plans, websites, etc.) The discipline of “cognitive mapping” has arisen to develop and standardize approaches in this area. The entire area points toward shortening the cycle time from conception to implementation, through shared access to standardized expressions and models of ideas, with all relevant references attached to the model in context.
Potential Applications
Portal implementations can benefit organizations in a number of different ways:
- A “tiger team” innovation and research group tasked with producing a next-generation product idea to bring to market in record time.
- A global marketing team, operating virtually, developing a highly interactive campaign with numerous media components which rely on a central theme, while each maintaining a high degree of uniqueness.
- An enterprise-wide cost management effort designed to generate innovative approaches for streamlining redundant processes and consolidating underutilized resources.
- Inventing new revenue streams by re-examining relationships with existing clients to discover under-served product niches that are easily accessed.
Technologies
Iknow's client assignments typically involve the selection, deployment, and customization of one or more software products as well as data and application integration. Iknow works with and understands many of the leading idea management software products, including:
Our consulting recommendations are always unbiased and independent, and we work jointly with our clients to reach and agree on the best technical direction for moving forward. Iknow is not a distributor or reseller of software or hardware products, so our technology recommendations will never be influenced by sales commissions or other incentives from software or hardware vendors.
Why do companies rely on Iknow's consulting advice?
Companies choose Iknow to help them with their portal challenges because Iknow has:
- Deep expertise in portal software and systems, as well as a solid understanding of the entire spectrum of KM, collaboration, and related information management software and technologies;
- Exceptional business management consulting skills, including strong analytical, process design, and organizational change management capabilities;
- Knowledge of most industry verticals, business processes, and business functions; and
- An extensive project portfolio demonstrating experience in delivering complete end-to-end KM solutions.
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Contact us today and let Iknow develop an idea management solution for your enterprise
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