Inogate continues to impress the industry

Inogate @ Forrester Report

Inogate is growing their idea management software market space worldwide. According to the latest Forrester Research report published on August 3rd 2010, Inogate has been nominated as one of the two emerging European idea management software providers.

With offices in Portugal, Spain and the newly opened office in the UK, Inogate is continuing to impress the industry and simplify the way their clients innovate by advancing their Enterprise Collaborative 2.0 solutions.

By focusing on advanced semantics, dynamic profiles and artificial intelligence capabilities, Inogate’s solutions can simply bridge clients’ organizational silos, boost creativity and promote innovation culture throughout the entire organization.

To access the mentioned report, please go to: http://bit.ly/asI4VK

Exploring the right way to innovation

In today’s fast-paced market companies are constantly looking for new ways to find original ideas and concepts that will ensure market success in today’s consumption culture. In the era of social media, information overload and sleepless communication – how do you know you are doing the right thing? Choosing the right tool and cutting innovation costs? Building an innovation culture and putting the culture into practice?

The answer is simple. What you really need to see and understand is what you have in front of you – because your employees can make it happen. You just need to engage them! We believe that every human-centric business process must evolve and become an innovation process. Also, the practice must combine the speed and flexibility of unstructured creativity with the discipline of structured control to respond flexibly to changing business conditions. There should be a strong focus on people, their challenges and goals – something that evolve on a daily basis.  The practice needs to be designed for people but build for change.

Looking at the different solutions out there in the marketplace – there are extremely many tools that are mainly focusing on generic capabilities. They all have web 2.0 tools such as blogs, forums, social networks, wikis and so on – but is it really these tools that will make innovation happen? No, the key to successful innovation is to have a strong focus on specific business processes and cover a broad range of user groups and mix several Web 2.0 capabilities organized towards a specific business purpose.  The process will then empower individual users and transform groups and departments into highly efficient entities capable of constantly optimizing their performance trough innovation. And the rest comes by it self, simple! No more worries! Innovation will be stimulated and promoted everywhere and you will continuingly and efficiently bring great ideas into life and market.

Inogate at the Intranet & Portals Conference | Amsterdam

After arriving to a very cloudy Amsterdam on the Wednesday afternoon, we were excited to see what the city had to offer. Canals, cyclists, coffee shops were surrounding us when we were walking the busy streets of Amsterdam. I almost got run over by a cyclist – luckily I survived thanks to Francisco that had his eyes on every cyclist in town.

Indeed we live in an era of social networking! We had a few drinks in a busy pub close to the popular Dam square where we suddenly started chatting with Ricardo, a Brazilian/Canadian engineer and patent holder. Many great ideas and stories were discussed over a couple of Heinekens and we are excited to meet Ricardo again, very soon in sunny Portugal this time.

Thursday and Friday – time for the event! The two days brought interesting perspectives on how social media presents a radical shift for organizations. It is important to see social networking as a journey and understanding that the cultural change will not happen over a night. In fact, it is crucial to be flexible and to be prepared for working with different generations as well as getting ready for the realities of participation. We will always have creators, contributors, browsers and couch potato’s within our network. But we must say – it is not all about engaging and studying employees – we must think beyond that. As we are coming from pure innovation we feel that we also have to focus on specific business processes and cover a broad range of user groups and mix several Web 2.0 capabilities organized towards a specific business purpose. So – it is not only about adding tools and technology to your Intranet – we feel that the key to successful and engaging Intranet is to implement a technology that provides a solid ground for the true added-value – an embedded domain expertise that adds a business dimension to the technology.

Intranet & Portals 2010 was a great forum that brought together different industries and leading companies. We loved this year’s presentations from; BT, Mars, Allianz, Nokia and KPN among others – thank you for inspiring us! We are all sitting in the same boat – why not share ideas and help each other out over a cup of tea in Amsterdam. Let’s stay connected and see you all soon!

Inogate at the World Innovation Convention | Ibiza

Well what can we say, it has been a busy couple of weeks here at Inogate. Quick visit to Scotland then off to Ibiza and Amsterdam!

The weather in Scotland was exceptional (big surprise) then we arrived in Ibiza to attend the World Innovation Convention. The event took place at a retreat called Atzaro and it definitely had the WOW factor.

Inogate at WIC 2010

Not only was the location amazing but the people we met made attending The World Innovation Convention 2010 even better. We were lucky to have dinner with Stephen Attenborough from Virgin Galactic who presented on Virgin Galatic’s programme about the future of space tourism. Thanks Steven for putting up with all our questions during dinner! Amazing to think that soon we can all fly to space!

Martin Curley from Intel also joined us and during numerous taxi journeys and lunches we discovered that Susana our Business Developer at Inogate share a passion for CMMI, not all of us knew Susana was such a techie!

It was not all work however, we managed to get a small group together and went out in Ibiza town for tapas and sangria and made it back to the hotel at a reasonable hour.

This really was a great place to bring together the greatest minds from Innovation – Saatchi & Saatchi, P&G, Swarovski, McLaren Automotive and lots more. If only all the events were in such a nice location!

Check out this video of the conference:
http://www.ibiza-professionals.com/world_inovation_convention/

Next up for Inogate, we will be in Bilbao at the XXI ISPIM- Dynamics of Innovation conference, home of the famous Guggenheim Museum. More blogs and pictures to follow.