Dear Innovator,

We wish you and your families a beautiful Holiday Season and a New Year of good health, happiness and prosperity. 2011 has been once again a fantastic year for us and we wanted to let you know we appreciate your trust in us this past year. We look forward to seeing you in 2012!

The new Innovation Portal 3.12 !

Better searching, improved idea auto-promotion, introduction of passion tags, more secure, extended profiles including similarity matching, much faster!

Due Diligence on your Idea Management Software Decision.

If you’re about to spend your 2011 holidays on a decision to buy an idea management system, here’s some last minute due diligence questions to ask your software vendor (and yourself) before putting yourself out there with a risk.

Collaborative Ideation is a lot like the show Survivor. There are winners and losers.

Collaborative Idea Management Systems are in fact mini experiments looking into human behaviors that result in out of the box thinking.
They are not just electronic suggestion boxes.

Why can't we stay where we are? Why does innovation matter?

Some collected thoughts on why innovation matters, now more than ever.
Judy Estrin is currently the CEO of JLabs, through which she pursues a broad range of advisory activities including sitting on corporate and advisory boards and speaking engagements.

The idea management social network

You may not know it yet, but you want an idea management social network in your organization. If you don’t have one, you may only get an electronic suggestion box, which is really no better than a static list of ideas. And that’s not going to do anyone any good.

Connect & Develop is the new black (R&D alone is sooo last year)

There is a blessing to the new world of collaborative innovation. Instead of spending heaps of money on research to get new products or the solution to problems and obstacles, industry has the ability to use Web 2.0 technologies to connect with those who have the answers.