IdeaJam
From the lifeblood of a company, its customers; to its most valuable resources, its employees; we help companies learn what matters most. Our IdeaJam drives innovation by helping companies understand which ideas are worth pursuing and which ones are not, and most importantly why.
The concept is amazingly simple, yet extraordinarily powerful: with IdeaJam, people post their ideas on a topic, and others can vote on their agreement or disagreement with the idea by "promoting" or "demoting" it. Additionally, comments can be provided to elaborate ones thoughts on the matter at hand.
Good ideas rise to the top, bad ideas fall to the bottom. The comments will tell the story why an idea is good, bad or ugly.
How can an organization maximize their return on investment of intellectual capital? To quote Albert Einstein, "I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn."
By empowering your organization with Elguji's award winning IdeaJam idea management software, your team will gain from the wisdom of the masses in ways you never dreamed were previously possible. The power of many is the perpetual power source that every organization needs. IdeaJam is its fuel.
Incorporating social networking in a business environment has many benefits:
Tags – All ideas can be “tagged” with one or more tags. Users can then use tag clouds to see which tags are popular.
Statistics - View charts of Idea statistics including daily votes by IdeaSpace, number of ideas by IdeaSpace and many more.
Dashboard - View your ideas, comments, suggested ideas and more in the Dashboard
RSS – IdeaJam provides RSS feeds for IdeaSpace's, a specific idea, a user or for any given tag.
Comments - Users can choose to be notified when new comments on their ideas have been posted.
What's Hot - You can see ideas that are popular in the last day, week or month, each with a single click, administrators can even control the rules for "hotness".
User Profiles – Users can view their ideas, their comments, and the ideas they voted on.
Security - Administrators can configure groups of people who have access to edit each "IdeaSpace".
Views – Ideas can be viewed by popularity, recent ideas, most comments, recent comments or others. Each view also has an associated RSS feed.
Twitter Integration - Have IdeaJam "tweet" new ideas out to Twitter
Unvoted – Users can easily review ideas that they have not voted on.
IdeaJam Product Brochure - Download (PDF)
IdeaJam Installation, Setup and Customization Guide - Download.
The concept is amazingly simple, yet extraordinarily powerful: with IdeaJam, people post their ideas on a topic, and others can vote on their agreement or disagreement with the idea by "promoting" or "demoting" it. Additionally, comments can be provided to elaborate ones thoughts on the matter at hand.
"IdeaJam has every engaging and usable aspect of the Web 2.0 / AJAX era one can imagine, and has a real visual appeal. I can see a lot of behind-the-firewall application for the application"
-- Ed Brill, Director, End-User Messaging and Collaboration at IBM.
Good ideas rise to the top, bad ideas fall to the bottom. The comments will tell the story why an idea is good, bad or ugly.
How can an organization maximize their return on investment of intellectual capital? To quote Albert Einstein, "I never teach my pupils; I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn."
By empowering your organization with Elguji's award winning IdeaJam idea management software, your team will gain from the wisdom of the masses in ways you never dreamed were previously possible. The power of many is the perpetual power source that every organization needs. IdeaJam is its fuel.
Who Should Use IdeaJam?
IdeaJam is the perfect solution for every department in your organization:- Marketing
- Human Resources
- Sales
- Finance
- Event Planning
- Research and Development
- Information Technology
- Accounting
- Customer Service
- Plant and Facilities
- Corporate Communications
How IdeaJam Can Help Your Business
With IdeaJam your company can:- Collect ideas from employees on cutting costs, new products/services and new work processes
- Solicit feedback and suggestions from employees and customers
- Quickly establish a feedback channel with customers and partners
- Run innovation contests and competitions
- Gather and manage feedback on new product features
- Efficiently record and manage input from thousands of stakeholders
- Use the power of "crowd-sourcing" to rank ideas and allow the best ideas to rise to the top
- Solicit immediate input from employees at any level and from any organization quickly and easily
Corporate "Social Networks" for Innovation and Idea Management
Millions of people participate in online social networking communities. Businesses have only recently started to realize the potential that Web 2.0 and social software technologies present to corporations. Elguji was the first company to introduce a corporate social networking application designed specifically for collecting and managing ideas for IBM's Lotus Notes and Domino software.Incorporating social networking in a business environment has many benefits:
- Increases participation by orders of magnitude over traditional methods such as suggestion boxes
- Drastically shortens timeframes of idea collection and evaluation
- Promotes collaboration on the creation and refinement of ideas
- Fosters a sense of shared involvement with customers and employees
- No end-user training is required
Make IdeaJam Look the Way Your Business Does
Make IdeaJam look like your idea. Through easy customization, IdeaJam can easily blend in with your company's intranet or other websites.Key Features
- Idea Collection
- Voting and Commenting
- Search
- Idea Dashboard Follow an IdeaSpace
- Top Innovators Leaderboard
- Duplicate Idea Checker
- IdeaJams can be both Private and/or Public
- Graphs and Reports
- User Profiles
- Twitter Support
- Mark Ideas as "Favorites"
- Easily Export Data
- Web Site Widgets - Lotus Connections, Lotus Notes 8, Google Gadgets, Websphere Portal
- Support for File Attachments
- Tags
- Blogging and Idea Embedding on a Web Page Capability
How IdeaJam Works
Let's take a quick look at how IdeaJam works. This won't take too long...IdeaSpaces
"IdeaSpaces" are used in IdeaJam to group similar ideas together. For example "Employee Benefits" is an IdeaSpace that will contain all ideas related to employee benefits programs while the "Sales Compensation" IdeaSpace has ideas related to improving a companies sales compensation program. IdeaSpaces are managed by a designated person or group of people.- A user clicks on the "Post my Idea" button and enters their idea. They select an "IdeaSpace", a title, the idea itself, enter tags, upload a file attachment(s) and then save.
- Other users can provide feedback on the new idea by entering a comment and, can also show their support for the idea by either promoting or demoting it. They could also click "No Opinion" which registers that they don't care one way or the other about this idea.
- Ideas can be filtered in several ways. IdeaJam shows recent ideas, popular ideas that have the most comments, ideas that have been completed, ideas that have been rejected, ideas that are in progress, ideas that have been withdrawn as well as a view that shows all of the comments posted. Each of these views can be displayed for an individual IdeaSpace or for all IdeaSpaces.
- Statistics are available and show the overall activity in an IdeaJam.
- A search facility is also part of IdeaJam and can be used to search IdeaJam for words and phrases. Results can then be exported to Microsoft Excel, a CSV or an XML file.
- Users can also search IdeaJam using it's easy to use tagging system. Simply go to the Tags page and click on a tag to see which ideas are tagged with a given tag.
More IdeaJam Features
IdeaJam includes many features that make innovation, idea generation and promotion easy and fun:Tags – All ideas can be “tagged” with one or more tags. Users can then use tag clouds to see which tags are popular.
Statistics - View charts of Idea statistics including daily votes by IdeaSpace, number of ideas by IdeaSpace and many more.
Dashboard - View your ideas, comments, suggested ideas and more in the Dashboard
RSS – IdeaJam provides RSS feeds for IdeaSpace's, a specific idea, a user or for any given tag.
Comments - Users can choose to be notified when new comments on their ideas have been posted.
What's Hot - You can see ideas that are popular in the last day, week or month, each with a single click, administrators can even control the rules for "hotness".
User Profiles – Users can view their ideas, their comments, and the ideas they voted on.
Security - Administrators can configure groups of people who have access to edit each "IdeaSpace".
Views – Ideas can be viewed by popularity, recent ideas, most comments, recent comments or others. Each view also has an associated RSS feed.
Twitter Integration - Have IdeaJam "tweet" new ideas out to Twitter
Unvoted – Users can easily review ideas that they have not voted on.
Case Studies
Read our case studies which demonstrate how companies and organizations are innovating with IdeaJam.Industry Awards
IdeaJam has received numerous awards including an IBM Beacon award, two IBM Lotus Awards and a Finalist in three Lotus Award categories. Here is more information on them.Product Brochure
IdeaJam Product Brochure - Download (PDF)
IdeaJam Installation, Setup and Configuration Documentation
IdeaJam Installation, Setup and Customization Guide - Download.