IdeaJam
Idea and innovation management software for the enterprise
From the lifeblood of a company, its customers; to
its most
valuable resources, its employees; we help
companies learn what
matters most. Our IdeaJam
software 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 even 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.
IdeaJam is the perfect solution for every department
in your organization:
- Marketing
- Human Resources
- Sales
- Finance
- Legal
- Event Planning
- Strategy and Planning
- Research and Development
- Information Technology
- Accounting
- Quality Assurance
- Engineering
- Customer Service
- Plant and Facilities
- Corporate Communications
Empowering your employees with IdeaJam can improve
processes in ways never thought possible. By letting
your employees collaborate on ideas to build a
better company, they in fact will do just that.
IdeaJam is easy to install and you can quickly be up
an running in about 15-30 minutes.
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
- Validate concepts
- 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
Millions of people participate in online social
networking communities. Businesses have only
recently started to realize the potential that
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/Domino and Lotus
Connections 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 time frames 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 like your idea. Through easy
customization, IdeaJam can easily blend in with your
company's intranet or other websites.
- Idea Collection
- Voting and Commenting
- Search
- Idea Dashboard
- Follow an IdeaSpace
- Custom Welcome Page
- Top Innovators Leaderboard
- Duplicate Idea Checker
- Attach documents and images to ideas and
comments
- IdeaJams can be both Private and/or Public
- Graphs and Reports
- User Profiles
- "What's Hot"
- 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
Let's take a quick look at how IdeaJam works:
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.
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.
Read our case studies which demonstrate how companies and
organizations are innovating with IdeaJam.
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.
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Customers often find that they want to extend
IdeaJam's functionality. This isn't a problem since
Elguji offers custom development services at
reasonable rates. Check out our Services page for more information.
IdeaJam runs on IBM's Lotus Domino Server 6.5.x, 7.x
and 8.x.
- The award winning IdeaJam templates
- The Setup, Installation and Customization Guide
- Complete source code
- Outstanding customer support
- IdeaJam Single Server License
- IdeaJam 3 Server License Pack (Best Value)
Please contact our sales team for more inforamtion.
Elguji also offers IdeaJam as "software as a
service" which companies can rent. This saves you
from having to run IdeaJam on your companies
computer hardware. Contact sales for more information on Idea Jam hosting.