CogniStreamer keeps getting better!

The CogniStreamer® development team is constantly enhancing our collaborative tool for innovation ecosystems.  We release new revisions four times per year in order to provide constant improvements based on client feedback, couple with a clear vision.  These new releases always contain improvements for Scalability, Usability, Speed and Social Science.  The current release scheduled for December 2011 includes

• Improved User Experience (simplifying the sign in process, improved forms);
• Search improvements;
• “Passion Tagging” (so users can be alerted when items of interest get posted within the system);
• Semantics are now part of CogniStreamer (where the software actually reads descriptions in order to make ideas easier to find);
• Password strenghtening;
• Intelligent monitoring tools for Innovation Managers (ThistleTube).

You can learn more about the ThistleTube approach in Wim Soens’ chapter on the role of the Innovation Manager in a new book for corporate innovators (see the next story).

We're in Print!

Innovation enthusiasts can always track our point of view by following the CogniStreamer blog “The Jazz of Innovation”.  You can find entries from Wim Soens, CogniStreamer’s Founder and Head of Development, by Peter Verschuere (CogniStreamer’s Social Media Director) and by Ron Shulkin (CogniStreamer’s Chief of Sales).  Ron’s blogs also appear on the prestigious Front End of Innovation web site.

Wim’s insights are also part of a new book “The Art of Software Innovation: Eight Practice Areas to Inspire your Business“.  His chapter focuses on the Role of the Innovation Manager.  You can get a flavor of Wim’s perspective by reading his white paper on “Idea Harvesting” available for free on our web site.

Encouraging Collaboration

CogniStreamer® is unique amongst the innovation management systems on the market.  Not only do our clients benefit from the Idea Management and Innovation Management attributes, but also from our approach to Knowledge Management.  Only with CogniStreamer® do clients enjoy the benefit of assembling people with common areas of interest, making it easy for them to share important information and just to find each other.  Above all CogniStreamer® is a social media system, where social science algorithms measure the wisdom of the crowd to determine which are the best ideas.  Learn more about CogniStreamer®.

Tools to make the Innovation Manager's Life Easier

Idea Management is more than just about electronic suggestion boxes …it is more about an Innovation Ecosystem.  CogniStreamer® software enables Innovation Managers to keep those ideas coming and moving the best ones toward development.  Only CogniStreamer® has features such as:

• The ability for Innovation Managers to promote a comment (perhaps on another idea or on a file) to Idea Status;
• The ability to Cluster or Merge similar ideas;
• Strong algorithm-driven similarity search to make it easy to find items of interest to users and to Innovation Managers;
• Downstream tools like SWOT analysis and Feasibility Studies.

CogniStreamer® does Foreign Languages very well!

Don’t worry if your company is headquartered in Chile because you can use CogniStreamer® in Spanish.  If you’re in Brazil, you can use CogniStreamer® in Portuguese.  We have clients using CogniStreamer® in French, in English and many other languages.

Perhaps it comes from our history of being founded in a country where multiple languages being spoken is common practice.  Learn more about CogniStreamer® and our personalization approach.