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Research Free-For-All!

jim wilde — Thu, 12 May 2005 13:00:38 +0000

The Register is reporting today that "Scientists from all major Dutch universities officially launched a website on Tuesday where all their research material can be accessed for free. Interested parties can get hold of a total of 47,000 digital documents from 16 institutions the Digital Academic Repositories. No other nation in the world offers such easy access to its complete academic research output in digital form, the researchers claim. Obviously, commercial publishers are not amused."This is great news. We can all benefit. How would you use any of this knowledge to improve what you are trying to get done? Where do you start?

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Creativity and Innovation on the Web

jim wilde — Mon, 14 Mar 2005 19:12:38 +0000

In his post “how to be creative” Dave Pollard (How to Save the World) hits the nail on the head in describing creativity. He also goes a step further, separating out creativity from innovation. “What is creativity? It's not the same as innovation. Creativity is the ability to generate appropriate, useful ideas that don't follow logically and analytically from the information available, It's the ability to know, in a complex world where most of the relevant decision-making information is unknown or unknowable, which ideas might work, might make sense. Innovation is the effective implementation of such ideas. Both creativity and innovation are often the only ways to accomplish some of the most important value-imperatives in business: * Radically improving product or process quality, currency, design or throughput

Improving problem-solving or decision-making
Improving resource-use effectiveness
Improving new product development
Improving employee and customer satisfaction or motivation
Predicting the future”

Whoa, that’s powerful: “... ideas that don't follow logically and analytically from the information available.” At AI, we have pieced together from various OSS projects and my own stuff, a tool that combines both creativity and innovation to help achieve what Pollard talks about.

Follow me here: Imagine an internet-managed service that offers an interactive meeting place; a tool that gives businesses the opportunity to build a deep web presence with minimal effort. It helps them inexpensively leverage their internal ideas, information and people using external ideas and information to foster a more efficient, collaborative environment, which improves the business.

As you know, RSS readers have not exactly caught on with most folks yet, leaving a gap between what is current, fuzzy, and relatively rich-information and ideas, and that which is gleaned from common keyword searches, Google, Yahoo, et al. IDEASCAPE takes advantage of new technologies: RSS, attention.xml, blogs, wikis, and intelligent tagging, that make it easier for users to find and share ideas and information important to them, no matter how it is described or whether it is inside or outside the business. In the end, it saves time and opens up new possibilities to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of the business besides making it more innovative.

With so much flexibility, we have the dilemma, “what is it?” The tool (IDEASCAPE) can be many things to many people depending on their goals, objectives and priorities. What works best for whom continues to unfold. I welcome any feedback or ideas that you may have. To see the tool in action, you need to register - free.

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Idea Management Across the Organization Made Easy!

jim wilde — Thu, 03 Mar 2005 15:28:11 +0000

Common characteristics in an idea management system. A good one to start with - use an open source cms.

Every business development manager or chief innovation office needs to be asking this question: How do you coordinate activities and cultivate people to get more and better ideas to improve your business? While every organization should design its Idea Management processes according to its own needs, certain characteristics are common to all idea management systems. Open source CMS Idea Management System.

Ideas, big and small ones, are encouraged and welcomed.
Submitting ideas is simple.
A central repository or meeting place for ideas to be cultivated and exchanged.
A vehicle to exlpore ideas from inside and outside the business.
A method to track ideas.
Evaluation of ideas is quick and effective.
Feedback is timely, constructive, and informative.
Implementation is rapid and smooth.
Ideas are reviewed for additional potential.
Ideas are shared across the organization.
People are recognized, and success is celebrated.
Idea Management system performance is measured, reviewed, and improved.

Advancing Insights makes the whole process of idea management easy with social networking software and community software solutions.

From Computeworld, "Tap the wisdom of employees -- and boost the bottom line. Collective-intelligence tools can shepherd the best and brightest ideas and turn them into huge bonanzas."

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about us

jim wilde — Fri, 11 Feb 2005 07:43:12 +0000

Hi! Thanks for dropping in.

Advancing Insights was founded in 2003, and is located in New Jersey.

Open source software "OSS" development began when one smart individual realized that he wasn't half as smart as all the other people he knew if he put them together. We support a similar model for Open Innovation and Cooperative Strategies. We practice what we preach.

Ideascape is made up of several Open Source Software products that you can find here. General infomation on OSS can be found here. Advancing Insights provides uninterupted support of its products and services. Ideascape is based on a subscription model and works with any Internet browser.

"No matter who you are, most of the smartest people work for someone else. The same might be said of recommendations. No matter who you are, someone you don't know has found the coolest stuff." Bill Joy, Sun Micro

We firmly believe in Peter Drucker's dictum, "that there is only one valid purpose for any business: to create and satisfy a customer." Everything else, from value and service to profits and market share, follows from that premise. After all, it's customers who pay the bills. It's customers who keep us employed.

With Ideascape, we make it easier for you to get done what you are already trying to do -- solicit and promote good ideas, powerful stories, and useful information to grow your business.

Knowledge is literally a matter of conversation. It's disagreement with people who stretch you. Knowledge is the continuing conversation, not the result of it. - Dave Weinberger

Call 973.433.4007 or email us now to learn more. We will energize your organization to achieve greater effectiveness, efficiency, innovation and bottom line-improving results.

Advancing Insights and Ideascape are the results not only of my efforts, but of a much larger community of friends, mentors, and oss developers. I want thank them all!

Boston Consulting Group on Open Source Communities and here (both are pdf's). The bottom line - oss communities are the most successful collaboration efforts on the net with many of the ideas being transferable to areas of business outside of IT.

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