From Ideas to Innovation: Formalizing Idea Management in SharePointChristian Buckley, BeezyMike Oryszak, B&R Business Solutions

IntroductionsSharePoint as a Knowledge CenterWhat is Idea Management?DemoBenefits of Idea Management in SharePointNext Steps

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Christian BuckleyCMO at Beezy + Microsoft MVP

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Beezy is the premier enterprise collaboration solution for Microsoft Office 365 and SharePoint, extending the feature set and improving the user experience for on-premises, cloud, and hybrid deployments. We are on a mission to transform the way people work, and to help employees be more connected, innovative, and happy. Learn more at www.beezy.net or @FollowBeezy on Twitter.

SharePoint as a Knowledge Center

Captures many types of documentationProvides structureTaxonomy, FolksonomySearch-driven user experience

SharePoint as a Knowledge Center

Where it fails:• Capturing tacit knowledge• Leveraging the dialog between documents• Driving the ideation process itself• It is only as useful as the data captured within the

platform• …and your ability to get that data back out

SharePoint as a Knowledge Center

Incorporating Idea Management

Idea Management ≠ Knowledge Management

What is idea management?

• “Organized brainstorming”• Gathering input, sorting and refining, and implementing• Idea management is also about surfacing ideas from

your employees that may otherwise be lost within the daily shuffle

• Shared input generated by the people who live and breathe the functional tasks, and who are best positioned to identify new ways to work new methods to optimize and improve and novel innovations that could have an impact to your bottom line

What is idea management?

At its core, an idea management solution must provide a method for employees to:

What is idea management?

This should be a highly interactive process• Promote broadly, as you don’t know where the best ideas

might come from• Give people the opportunity to vote and comment• All inputs should be tagged and searchable, as they may

become valuable knowledge assets• Review and assessment, allowing people to see what was

achieved

What is idea management?

DemoBeezy Idea Campaigns

Benefits of Idea Management in SharePoint

• Socializing ideas and capturing the wisdom of the crowd

• Improved business alignment• Rich, contextual map of your content• Improved searchability, findability• Reduced operational costs

Benefits of Idea Management in SharePoint

• Where most organizations fail with idea management is that they put ideation at the beginning of the process, and expect it to provide all of the answers.

• The reality is that having a formal idea management process in place has more to do with unlocking the knowledge assets within your organization – and allowing your organization to leverage them to solve defined problems.

Benefits of Idea Management in SharePoint

“Collaboration is not only about what teams try to achieve within their micro-worlds (departments, projects, etc.), but also about the important challenges that whole organizations face in a macro context. Beezy Idea Campaigns can bridge these two worlds.”

~Maximo Castagno Chief Product Officer at Beezy

Benefits of Idea Management in SharePoint

Next Steps

Visit the Beezy booth (2044) at Ignite!

Read the blog post

Download the ebook

Schedule a personal demo of Beezy Idea Campaigns using our contact form

Get more information

Thank you!Christian BuckleyChief Marketing Officer, Beezycbuck@beezy.net

Mike OryszakSenior Solution Architect, B&R Business Solutionsmoryszak@bandrsolutions.com