IdeaJam
Who Should Use IdeaJam?
IdeaJam is the perfect solution for every department in your organization:- Marketing
- Human Resources
- Sales
- 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 "crowdsourcing" 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
- Duplicate Idea Checker
- IdeaJams can be both Private and/or Public
- Dashboard Graphs and Reports
- User Profiles
- Mark Ideas as "Favorites"
- Easily Export Data
- Web Site Widgets
- Support for File Attachements
- Tags
- Blogging 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.
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.
Unvoted – Users can easily review ideas that they have not voted on.
Product Brochure
IdeaJam Product Brochure - Download (PDF - 362kb)
IdeaJam Installation, Setup and Configuration Documentation
IdeaJam Installation, Setup and Customization Guide - Download.
