Add Innovation Management To Your Enterprise Social Software

Innovation Management Integrated Into Your Enterprise Social Network - Social Sites Ideas

Innovation is critical to your company’s success regardless of the industry or economic environment in which it operates. In addition to providing business processes and a culture that supports innovation, it is important to offer your employees a user friendly interface for generating, capturing, and prioritizing ideas.

Social Sites Ideas provides enterprises with a streamlined process for innovation management by enabling employees to create campaigns, submit ideas, comment on ideas, vote for ideas, and manage a basic innovation life-cycle. Social Sites Ideas enables you to realize the following benefits:

• Improve your company’s competitive position by boosting innovation.
• Lower costs by avoiding investment in specialized innovation management software.
• Increase employee participation in innovation management by integrating idea capture into your existing Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS) interface.
• Enhance the visibility of new ideas by integrating innovation management actions into your social network, online communities, and activity streams.

Boost Innovation With Enterprise 2.0, NewsGator Social Sites, and Microsoft SharePoint Server

Social Sites Ideas makes it easy for employees to offer new ideas for consideration throughout the entire organization. Colleagues can “vote up” an idea they like, invoking the wisdom of the crowd, and add detailed comments. Employees are notified of relevant new ideas, votes and comments. The best ideas are promoted to management for final review and implementation. Social Sites Ideas is the only innovation management solution fully integrated into an enterprise social computing environment. Thus, innovation is an organic part of the social computing workflow, not a siloed application. Social Sites Ideas provides you with the following features:

• Simple user interface for idea submission

• One-click access to add or remove a vote for an idea

• Easy-to-use discussion and commenting features to collaborate around ideas

• Search and sorting functionality

• Ideas promotion capabilities

• Administrative interface for campaign creation, idea categorization, and moderation features

• Views for public, most popular or ‘hottest’ ideas

• Integration of user actions (idea creation, voting, commenting, and promotion) into the Social Sites activity stream

• Online communities for light-weight project management of promoted ideas

To learn more about combining your enterprise social network with your innovation management initiatives, contact NewsGator at insidesales@newsgator.com or 800-608-4597.