Ideas, the module, just got better!
Posted by Matt Rajkowski on February 23, 2011, 8:00 AM EST
When I think of social business software, I think of all the ways that collaborating can improve a business and give it a leg over the competition. Perhaps the simplest is the age-old suggestion box, brought into the next generation.
Ideas in ConcourseConnect is a glorified suggestion box, with a twist. When a suggestion is made, other employees have the opportunity to express an opinion. It's the cumulative rating and review process that helps an idea get fleshed out and adopted. The community effect can quickly squash a mediocre suggestion, but also draw attention to the most important ones.
To improve the Ideas module, we learned from our recent development of Challenges. Read on for a screen shot and a link to see Ideas in action.
Ideas now have stages: suggested, adopted, discarded and closed. Suggested ideas can be voted on, and the voting screen is now simply a one (1) line reaction and a rating. Managers can adopt the idea and the idea is removed from the voting area. The page now dynamically shows whether the user has already voted which encourages them to vote on the ones they haven't. All around, Ideas are easy to use and well-worth trying out.
You can see Ideas in action here:
