INNOVATION MANAGEMENT
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1. An innovation management system, comprising:
- a database of networked members, each of the networked members being associated with a pre-defined user profile;
a user interface operable to receive inputs from a member and to display selected outputs to a member;
a campaigns module onto which campaigns can be defined, the campaign being defined as a call to the networked members to submit ideas for a particular context defined by the campaign;
an ideas module onto which the ideas can be loaded, the ideas selectively being associated with a pre-defined campaign.
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Abstract
An innovation management system, which includes a database of networked members, each of the networked members being associated with a pre-defined user profile, a user interface operable to receive inputs from a member and to display selected outputs to a member, a campaigns module onto which campaigns can be defined, a campaign being defined as a call to networked members to submit ideas for a particular context defined by the campaign, and an ideas module onto which ideas can be loaded, the ideas selectively being associated with a pre-defined campaign.
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1. An innovation management system, comprising:
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a database of networked members, each of the networked members being associated with a pre-defined user profile; a user interface operable to receive inputs from a member and to display selected outputs to a member; a campaigns module onto which campaigns can be defined, the campaign being defined as a call to the networked members to submit ideas for a particular context defined by the campaign; an ideas module onto which the ideas can be loaded, the ideas selectively being associated with a pre-defined campaign. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
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12. A method of managing innovation, the method comprising:
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providing a database of networked members, each of the networked members being associated with a pre-defined user profile; providing a user interface operable to receive inputs from a member and to display selected outputs to the member; providing a campaigns module onto which campaigns can be defined, the campaign being defined as a call to the networked members to submit ideas for a particular context defined by the campaign; providing an ideas module onto which ideas can be loaded, the ideas selectively being associated with a pre-defined campaign. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 25, 26)
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24. A method of mapping networked members to ideas, the method comprising:
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plotting on a two dimensional plane markers indicative of networked members and associated ideas, the markers of the networked members and the ideas initially being distributed equally over the two dimensional plane; linking markers of the members that are networked together with each other by drawing vectors between the markers; linking markers of the ideas that are associated with the networked members together with each other by drawing vectors between the markers of the networked members and of the associated ideas; minimising the length of the vectors by moving the markers of the networked members and the associated ideas on the two-dimensional plane so as to create a clustering of the networked members and the ideas around the most densely networked members and ideas.
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