tanya asked:


Thousands of users all over the world contribute to the communication and improves ideas of the co-partners they meet. Distance does not matter any more. Nationality does not matter either. You can be anyone and be anywhere. The only thing you need to make you part in the world idea development is your laptop and internet connection.

Comapping company designed a special application called comapping for such creative online surfers especially. This software allows users to extend and share ideas within a group, using the Internet and a browser-based interface that calls to mind the neural pathways of the brain. It is completely web-based with nothing to download. It gets you on the map, from any Internet-connected Mac or PC, anywhere. Application is specially designed for uniting people online i.e. giving them a chance to give a birth to something new while developing creative ideas.

Comapping software designed to combine mind mapping with real-time remote collaboration, as well as project development and management tools. The software is functioning online in the real time meaning users are free to make collaborate and get the respond at once.



Comapping prevents delays disallowing idea capturing and gives uses a chance to organize and retrieve their thoughts visually and graphically. This application was especially designed for on-site or geographically dispersed creative teams — in business process planning, academia, government and healthcare — that need to propel and capture their brainstorms.

Comapping application contains such important features as: the map automatically zooms in and out as you move around it, making it easy to add “branches” to the Comapping tree without scrolling. It allows real-time collaboration. 20 users can simultaneously brainstorming through the application to share, publish and chat features. Users can also share maps via e-mail, and publish them to the Web as well as export Comapping content to .rtf files, to facilitate creating presentations and sharing with remote users.

Developers made the application useful for all kinds of users – computer experienced and newcomers. Online application has its search tools for the comapping maps to be searched on word strings. Presentation is made up an easy one for the user friendly look. A user can lead an on-site or remote audience through a sequence of topics and branches in a slide-type presentation. Easy to remember, collaborate online and understandable commands allow to navigate maps quickly and efficiently.

There is a possibility to assign tasks, establish deadlines and measure progress through a Comapping map. For the security purpose maps are stored securely and user privacy is assured. Anyone trying the software can find one-to-one or one-to-all chat. Just simply click on the name of a person rooting around in the map and send him a chat message, within the program.



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Bryan Seyfarth asked:

One way to establish market differentiation is through the introduction of innovative new products. Establishing that differentiation is one thing, but maintaining it is quite another. Here we have put together a ten part series on how to generate higher returns from your innovation investments.

From our series of highly informational articles, companies will learn: how to treat innovation as a cross-functional business process, how to align innovation execution and business strategy; how to create sustainable innovation; how to train your senior executives to successfully execute innovation initiatives; how to effectively manage process and project management; how to measure performance of your processes; how to ensure broad stakeholder buy-in; how to understand the importance of product roadmaps; how to provide the tools necessary for successful product innovation; and finally, how to ensure that portfolio management coincides with process management.

Here is one of the ten practices that leading innovators use to increase the payback from innovation spending: Treating Innovation as a Cross-Functional Business Process.

Innovation as a Cross-Functional Business Process

While it is not uncommon for organizations to view innovation as a technical process, relegated to the realm of idea generation by research scientists and engineering staff, for innovation to be truly effective however, it should be treated as a business process that supports strategic decisions throughout the life of a product, from inception to retirement.

When you think about it, the various things companies must do to innovate successfully fall into the following categories: planning, investing, designing, manufacturing, supplying, or selling products. Most companies make substantial investments in systems to support the last four of these functional areas. However, when it comes to supporting the strategic planning and investment decision-making facets of innovation process management – points where organizations place huge bets to ensure their future success – many companies have no system in place!

Effective management of innovation processes requires close coordination of daily development activities and the synchronization of product planning information across a broad set of stakeholders. Representatives from principal functions of the organization must be able to contribute easily and thoughtfully to a long-term, business-centric view of market and product opportunities to ensure investments are made in the right projects at the right time.

Additionally, recent studies indicate that more than half of senior corporate executives are dissatisfied with the returns their organizations are generating from investments in innovation. 1 At the same time, some organizations are realizing as much as forty to sixty percent more revenue and profit from new products than their industry peers. What sets these companies apart?

For more information on the top practices that leading innovators use to increase their returns on innovation spending, look for the next article of this ten-part series: Aligning Innovation Execution and Business Strategy.