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| Increasing globalization, new technologies and rapid changes in rules and regulations constantly reshape the competitive landscape, even for industries that once seemed stable, such as the automotive industry. To respond to this chaotic and continuously changing environment, organizations are placing a premium on innovation.
The emergence of new collaboration technology holds the promise of accelerating innovation at the organizational level. Companies can use organizational and experimental innovation together to get geometrically greater results than by experimentation alone.
Collaboration can accelerate the pace of innovation in three key ways: by promoting real-time organizational awareness of opportunities for innovation, by shortening the cycle time for experiment conception and design, and by tapping the power of grassroots participation to drive acceptance, adoption and expansion of ideas. |
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Promoting Organizational Awareness
Before a company can innovate, it must become aware of the opportunity for improvement. Far too often, the awareness of opportunities develops on the frontlines of the organization, where individual employees come into contact with the outside world (customers, partners and suppliers), but this awareness fails to bubble up to the higher echelons of the organization where resource allocations are determined.
Snsepro’s Enterprise collaboration platform can serve as an information bus to generate greater organizational awareness of these opportunities. These real-time collborative tools are simple can be used by anyone within the organization and can serve as a virtual nervous system that is more responsive than traditional lines of reporting. An opportunity for innovation may arise from a single employee and spread , senior managers can become aware of this real-time spread of an idea, track it and act on the opportunity much more quickly.
Shortening the Cycle Time for Experimental Conception and Design
While many companies focus on reducing the time required to carry out an experiment, there are probably even more opportunities to accelerate innovation by shortening the cycle time for the preparatory work of creating, designing and refining the experiment. Collaboration tools such as wikis can dramatically improve the cycle time for experiment conception and design by allowing near real-time collaboration by all interested parties. Especially in cases where team members might be geographically dispersed, the ability of wikis to reflect the most current collective wisdom of the group (while preserving a complete record of past revisions) provides a much faster way to refine and finalize an experiment than traditional one: one communications mechanisms such as email.
Tapping the Power of Grassroots Participation
Let's say your organization has identified an opportunity, designed and refined the perfect experiment, executed the experiment and generated exciting results. Congratulations – your work has just begun. As any change agent has learned, simply perfecting a great idea, even with the support of experimental evidence, is insufficient for innovation. The difference between invention and innovation is that innovators find ways to get others to adopt their ideas.
Here is where collaboration tools and all your previous work come in. The best way to encourage broad adoption throughout your organization is to involve a broad group of people in the innovation process.
People will be familiar with the initiative, and will feel a sense of certainty about its nature and potential impact, because they will have been able to observe it evolve over time, and hopefully even have contributed to its growth and evolution.
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A great alternative to Microsoft Exchange and Share point. Achieve company-wide, connected communication and collaboration without having to buy and maintain costly and complicated server solutions. |
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User-friendly. The desktop-like user interface makes SNSEPRO’s Enterprise social collaborative platform easy to use from the start. You sign-in and you are ready to work. |
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Escape from IT overload. SNSEPRO’s Enterprise social collaborative platform is completely Web-based, there's no software to download, install, or maintain. Just a few clicks and you'll be up and running. Free up your team to focus on other business goals. |
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Packed with smart business features. SNSEPRO’s Enterprise social collaborative platform includes more than 50 easy-to-use features including Wiki, Blogs, Corporate discussion board, Feedback, document management and file storage, online calendars, online contact management, and project management tools. |
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Peace of mind. SNSEPRO’s Enterprise social collaborative platform virus protection and behind-the-scenes data backup programs keep your information assets safe, secure, and protected. |
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