| Jenni Innovation Process
Management (IPM)
Open Innovation with Jenni
Open innovation is a sexy business term with an awfully wide definition.
It can mean anything from inviting trusted suppliers to participate in
your idea generation and development activities to crowdsourcing through
running massive idea generation events that are open to the public. Jenni
supports all levels of open innovation.
Open Innovation with Trusted Suppliers
Jenni innovation process management software allows you to invite your
business partners and others to participate in massive on-line brainstorms.
For instance, if you need ideas on improving the technology behind one
of your products, you can invite employees from one or more of the component
manufacturers to participate in an on-line brainstorm. With your partners'
deep knowledge of their technology combined with your employees' understanding
of the end product, you can expect very innovative results!
Many of our clients have had success by involving suppliers in massive
on-line brainstorms to improve products, delivery of parts and efficiency
of operations. Contact
us to discuss open innovation options with Jenni.
Crowdsourcing Open Innovation
Crowdsourcing open innovation is inviting the general public to participate
in massive on-line brainstorms. We have a special Crowdsourcing version
of Jenni especially for this purpose. We also have a Jenni
that runs on the Facebook platform -- so you can interact directly
with Facebook users in your crowdsourcing.
However, we recommend that you think through any crowdsourcing action
very carefully. Collecting 10,000 or more ideas from the public may seem
very glamorous. But administering those ideas will be expensive and time
consuming. A more focused approach, such as soliciting structured solutions
to problems in a public ideas competition, will result in fewer ideas.
But they will be better developed, solve real problems and be easier to
administer. If you
are thinking about crowdsourcing for ideas, talk to us first, we could
save you from an enterprise level headache!
Jenni Inventor to Speak on Open Innovation in Johannesburg
Jeffrey Baumgartner, the inventor of Jenni, will speak about open innovation
at the South
Africa Innovation Summit in Johannesburg in late August 2011. If you
are in the J-burg area at that time, do participate in this incredible
conference, meet Jeffrey and learn about the latest innovation trends
in Africa's most dynamic economy!
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