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Selecting the Best Ideas
Any idea management software product can collect lots of ideas. But unless
your business is only interested in ideas, you need to be able to identify
which ideas have the greatest potential to become innovations (definition).
Jenni provides you with a suite of evaluation tools that streamline the
idea review process. Moreover, Jenni's innovation process focuses idea
generation on specific strategic business goals and problems. This not
only ensures a higher percentage of useable ideas than is the case with
competing products, but it also allows you to combine ideas thematically
in order to build powerful innovative solutions.
Jenni's suite of evaluation tools include:
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Idea clustering allows you to combine thematically similar
ideas into a cluster which can then be treated as a single idea. This
speeds up evaluation and development substantially.
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Evaluation matrix is Jenni's most powerful tool. An authorised
manager can select a group of ideas, apply a criteria set to the group
and select a team to perform the evaluation. Evaluators (and idea
owners) are notified by e-mail and use simple on-line forms to rate
ideas according to business criteria. Jenni generates an overall scorecard
for the entire ideas campaign (definition)
as well as detailed evaluation reports for each idea.
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SWOT Analysis is a well established business idea evaluation
tool. That's why Jenni includes a tool that allows managers to set
up SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats) analyses,
assign evaluators and notify all parties. As analyses are completed,
Jenni compiles information in SWOT scorecard as well as individual
SWOT reports for each analysed idea.
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Elimination rounds based on simple criteria allow you to remove
from view ideas which are clearly not viable. Nevertheless, Jenni
e-mails idea owners a short note explaining why their ideas have been
eliminated.
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Idea export/development allows you to send an idea from Jenni
on to any software tool you are using for further development. You
can assign experts to complete to do business cases, project management,
cash-flow forecasting or any other software based process your firm
uses for developing ideas into viable concepts.
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Implementation tagging ensures people know when their ideas
are implemented and provides better statistics on the effectiveness
of your idea management initiative.
No other idea management software provides such a wealth of evaluation
tools. No other software can so effectively identify the most powerful
ideas.
A word of warning about...
Voting
Many budget idea management software products boast a voting system as
their method of identifying the "best ideas". However, voting
is nothing more than a popularity contest. With such systems, people will
vote for an idea based on internal politics, personal needs and even the
attractiveness of the person who submitted the idea. Such selection criteria
might be fine for social networking, but should not be the basis of informed
business decision making. Worse, highly creative ideas, being very unusual
by their nature, are typically voted down in popularity contests. And
that makes such ideas harder to identify.
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Question: what is the single most costly component of your innovation
process?
Answer: time
An efficient evaluation process means your top employees spend less time
reviewing ideas and more time generating value for you firm.
Jenni innovation process management has the best, most comprehensive
evaluation suite available today.
If identifying potentially innovative ideas is more important to you
than generating lots of ideas, contact us today and arrange a demonstration
of Jenni. Once you evaluate your innovation needs, you will find that
Jenni is the best idea in the world!
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