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NEW: Jenni Idea Management Version 4.0
In March 2008, we completed and delivered to all our clients a major
upgrade of Jenni idea management software service which included a host
of new features. Many of them were suggested by our clients and a few
were devised by our own innovation team. We also tweaked the underlying
code to improve performance, scalability and security. The result, we
believe, is simply the best, most flexible and easiest to use idea management
solution available today (well, we would think that, wouldn't we?).
If you are not familiar with our Ideas Campaign
approach to idea management, you may wish to read
this first. An understanding of ideas campaigns will make it easier
to appreciate many of the new features.
New Features in Jenni Idea Management 4.0
For Idea Managers
(ie. people authorised to run ideas campaigns in Jenni)
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Easy Branding allows you to rebrand Jenni in the name of your
own innovation program. For example, if your initiative is called
"IdeasVille", we can rename your implementation of Jenni
"IdeasVille", add your logo to "IdeasVille" and
even incorporate your colours into IdeasVille - thus ensuring Jenni
- sorry, we should say "IdeasVille" - better integrates
into your organisation's innovation processes.
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Your own Innovation Challenge Library provides you with dozens
of standard innovation challenges that your idea managers (ie. those
you empower to manage their own ideas campaigns) can use as the basis
of new ideas campaigns. Challenges are divided into categories and
cover the range from strategic innovation to incremental process improvements.
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Your managers can now launch three different types of ideas campaigns
depending on their requirements:
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In a traditional ideas campaign, any participant may submit
an idea in response to an innovation challenge. In addition, any
participant may build upon an existing idea by adding a building
block which appears just below the idea. Until now, the traditional
ideas campaign was standard in Jenni.
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In an IdeaWiki campaign, any participant may submit an idea
in response to an innovation challenge as well as collaborate upon
an existing idea. To do so, the participant clicks on a link which
opens up the idea in a Wiki-like editing environment where she may
edit the original idea by adding more material, editing existing
text, adding images and/or adding documents. Once she saves the
idea, it becomes a collaborative document in which she, the original
idea submitter and any other collaborators are listed as the idea
development team. The IdeaWiki campaign option makes Jenni the most
openly collaborative idea management system on the market!
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A Competition allows managers in your company to launch
competitions for business plans, project concepts or any other type
of proposal. The Manager sets up the competition title and rules.
Individuals or teams use Jenni to submit proposal documents as well
as summaries of their proposals. All submissions remain sealed until
the competition's closing date, at which point the manager in charge
may use Jenni's tools to evaluate the proposals in a transparent
environment.
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More rewards options in addition to Jenni's long-standing
points scheme - which automatically awards points for ideas, collaboration,
evaluation and other actions within the idea management system, Jenni
now also allows idea managers to set up a customised rewards system
with every ideas campaign. Special rewards motivate people to participate
in your idea management activities and gives employee extra incentive
to be innovative. Employees, meanwhile, can monitor their idea points
and special rewards on their own MyInnovation pages.
- Idea Development Module facilitates the flow from ideas generated
and evaluated in Jenni to innovative implementations that benefit your
firm. Managers can assign experts to develop business cases, launch
projects, prepare cash-flow forecasts or undertake any other action
with ideas. Jenni uses a library of your existing idea development and
project management file templates, thus making it easy to move ideas
from Jenni to your preferred development tools. The Idea Development
module complements Jenni's existing idea evaluation and SWOT analyses
tools.
For all Users
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Enhanced MyInnovation reporting provides each user with more
detailed information about her performance in Jenni with statistics
on number of ideas, collaborations, evaluations, rewards and more.
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Optional Social Networking Module allows your employees to
develop networks, tag colleagues with descriptive key words, find
others by tags, write individual blogs and collaborate on team blogs.
Social Networking provides many of the functions of popular networking
sites such as Facebook, LinkedIn and MySpace, but with a focus on
productivity and security and a lack of time-wasting games. Read
more about the optional Social Networking module...
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Many improvements to Jenni's underlying coding ensure faster, more
efficient performance.
These new features complement Jenni's existing innovation tool-set to
create an unbeatable idea management solution that makes innovation easy.
And of course, every implementation of Jenni comes with our total service
package of support and innovation coaching by telephone and e-mail.
What are you waiting for? With Jenni, you could be innovating tomorrow!
Contact us for more information...
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