Dec 2005: New Orchid Module Integrates Personality Styles into Innovation Programs
BOSTON, MA—December 12, 2005—Imaginatik announces the immediate availability of the Orchid Module, a personal and group innovation assessment tool to help companies leverage their most powerful assets: people.
The Orchid Module allows leaders to staff innovation teams with the right people for the right job, and to more successfully manage these teams, dramatically enhancing the innovation process and its results. The Orchid Module is based on several years of research by Imaginatik Research investigating the importance of personality styles on various aspects of the innovation process, from aptitude for creative problem solving, to the composition of evaluation committees.
The Module is an online tool, provided as a hosted service, and contains functionality to manage assessment responses, control identity, build teams, and manage a global environment. The Module is integrated into the Idea Central software environment through user authentication and links within the Portal Module.
For the user experience, participants complete a short online questionnaire. They are provided with detailed feedback on their preferred role(s) in the innovation process, helping them focus their energy on the elements of innovation that they are best suited for. These results can be shared with team leaders, and these leaders are better able to engage people in innovation processes.
With over 650,000 seats and a seven-year track record of successful implementations, Idea Central with the Orchid Module confirms Imaginatik's position as the most successful, lowest risk software vendor and consulting organization to help companies implement Idea and Innovation Management solutions.
About Imaginatik
Imaginatik is the number one provider of Innovation Infrastructure to the world's leading companies. More than 110 clients rely on Imaginatik's software, consulting and research to enable their best-of-breed Innovation activities. Imaginatik's flagship solution, Idea Central, is designed to elicit ideas and insights from employees and extended enterprise partners, provides a shared collaborative space to develop ideas, and is equipped with sophisticated tools to evaluate and select the top ideas for implementation. Idea Central has won numerous awards and is in use in clients such as Pfizer, Cargill, Georgia-Pacific, Cadbury Schweppes, W.R. Grace, Bayer AG, and Goodyear Tire & Rubber to name a few. Imaginatik’s software and consulting services have helped clients discover significant sources of additional revenue, as well as tangible cost savings, process improvements and increased product pipeline. Imaginatik is also committed to developing strategic solutions in the field of innovation, working with academic institutions such as the London Business School and the Cass School of Business, London, as well as leading practitioners of corporate innovation.
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