New Ideas Management Campaigns
How to ensure a successful innovation programme: People and Process Issues to get started
9 out of 10 Projects Fail because of People according to recent research. Fortunately Jenni is excellent software so let's address some People Project Issues first.
1. We need to assign tasks...
IdeaMaster has administrative control over Jenni.
Idea Managers are people who can set up and manage ideas campaigns (in other words, they will launch innovation challenges, oversee ideas and send ideas to review). Idea Managers are usually division managers with budgets and/or decision making power.
Experts are the people who will do evaluations and SWOT analyses of ideas. With Jenni, you can either grant individual users expert status or you can create evaluation teams who can review ideas.
Regular users are everyone else who can access Jenni, submit ideas, browse ideas and collaborate on ideas.
2. You will need to communicate what is happening..
Staff meetings with managers.
E-mail announcements. Jenni provides tools that let you e-mail employees about new ideas campaigns, existing ideas campaigns, new ideas and more.
Newsletters, Intranet, web site, bulletin boards
Rewards for all ideas submitted to early campaigns can be an effective incentive to encourage people to try out Jenni and submit ideas.
see more on our Sustainable Rewards page
Innovation training workshops are highly effective. They result in participants better understanding the innovation process as well as appreciating the value innovation offers your organisation. We can provide a choice of innovation training workshops for you. From basic training in Jenni to general innovation training workshops for managers and employees. See ourThe Ways of the Innovative Manager
and Innovation for Executives
3. You need to plan and launch your first ideas campaign..
An ideas campaign starts with an innovation challenge, such as "In what ways might we improve product X?" or "How could we make our order processing system more efficient?" and so on. Your first challenge should focus on an issue that is of interest across your organisation.
4. You need to plan evaluations
At the end of the campaign, you will want to evaluate the most promising ideas. You may also want to run SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats) analyses and tests, such as business cases, market studies, prototypes and the like. Jenni provides tools for all of these, but the first step is evaluation.
You can plan evaluations at the beginning of the ideas campaign, or you can wait to see what kind of ideas come in before planning evaluations. No matter which route you choose, you need to do two things:
1. Establish evaluation criteria for evaluating ideas. Jenni's evaluation tool allows you to establish up to five criteria for every evaluation.
2. Set up one or more evaluation teams and/or assign users expert status. These are the people to whom you will send ideas for evaluation.
Criteria based evaluations are an excellent check-point for ideas. They are relatively quick and easy for you to set up and for experts to complete, yet they provide a good indication of whether an idea is worth reviewing further. Of course, if you have any questions or prefer to have some expert guidance, we are at your service.
Finally, you need to implement the best ideas!
More Help, Training and Ideas...
Help to suit you
See our Innovation for All Organisations page for links relevant for specific markets and geography.
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