Optional Modules

The standard Jenni innovation process management solution is more than sufficient as a platform for your innovation process (including innovation process management, idea management module, evaluation module, basic social networking functions, administrative functions and more). However, depending upon your specific needs, Jenni's optional modules may add additional value to your innovation activities.

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• SocNet Social Networking
• Multiple Ideas Campaign Types
• Multilingual

Jenni's optional social networking module improves internal communication and collaboration!

SocNet : the Simple Social Networking Module

SocNet is the ideal complement to innovation process management. It facilitates networking within your firm, helps people find experts for specific tasks and enables individuals and teams to communicate. Jenni SocNet includes:

• Blogs - Jenni's custom built saboutme blogs allow individuals to write their own blogs; teams to write collaborative blogs and managers to write ideas campaign blogs that update participants on ideas campaign action

• Networking - Just like Facebook and LinkedIn enable people to forge links and build networks, SocNet also enables your employees to build networks of colleagues and to communicate with them.

• Tagging - Employees can tag themselves and their colleagues with key words. Over time, this creates a skill map of your organisation. People can find others with expertise in all kinds of areas.

• User profiles - The standard Jenni includes basic user profiles. People can upload images, write profiles and include links to personal web sites. User profiles allow people to learn more about idea submitters and colleagues. Jenni SocNet integrates seamlessly with user profiles.

If your firm does not already have social networking tools, then you should seriously consider including SocNet with your implementation of Jenni!

Jenni SocNet provides the best features of popular social networking sites, but it is easier to use and does not include productivity draining distractions.

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Multiple Ideas Campaign Types (MICT) Module

If you want to control how people collaborate in idea management, then you will love the Multiple Ideas Campaign Types (MICT) module. At present, MICT includes three different ideas campaign types -- which differ according to how people collaborate -- and we have some more options on the drawing board!

Traditional Ideas Campaigns -- In a traditional ideas campaign, the Idea Manager launches an ideas campaign with an innovation challenge. Participants can submit ideas and collaborate on each others' ideas by adding building blocks to existing ideas. This is similar to adding comments to a blog or a discussion board post. Traditional Ideas campaigns are the only type available on the standard Jenni implementation.

IdeaWiki Campaigns -- The Idea Manager launches an IdeaWiki campaign with an innovation challenge. Participants can submit their ideas or they can collaborate on each others' ideas by editing the original idea in a wiki-like environment. As a result, each idea becomes a document with multiple authors. No other idea management tool offers IdeaWikis and their depth of collaboration. Indeed, inside JPB, we use IdeaWiki's to develop our own ideas!

Competitions -- Unlike IdeaWikis and traditional ideas campaigns, competitions are not collaborative or even transparent. An idea manager launches an ideas campaign as a competition. Individuals or teams submit their confidential proposals. Only at the closing date of the competition, do submissions become visible. Competitions are great for, well, for competitions!

Multiple Ideas Campaign Types (MICT) is a great option for controlling the level of collaboration in your firm.

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Multilingual Module

If your firm does not operate in English or operates in multiple languages, then your employees will love Jenni multilingual. Jenni Multilingual can include as many languages as you wish. Read more...

Jenni in Russian

Your innovation initiative will be much more successful if your supporting software speaks to employees in their own language(s)!

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