Spigit News & Articles

Social innovation software provider, Spigit has announced a series of engagement and ROI-centric updates to its platform.

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Social innovation, meet social business intelligence. Social innovator Spigit has acquired business intelligence provider Crowdcast, which Spigit said will help it transform innovation into “a predictable discipline with business rigor”.

Developing a new tech platform? Looking to invest in one? If only there was a way to kick the tires and evaluate its true value in advance. Now there is. Last week, Spigit and Aragon Research launched the Open Forecast Project, a community designed to leverage the power of crowds to accurately size and value emerging technology markets.

Getting customer feedback into new products has always been a good idea.  Now Pleasanton, CA based Spigit, a self-described crowd innovation company, is making a game of that process with its new FaceOff application. By turning voting on brand directions into a game, the company looks to engage their customers while generating new ideas.

Things happen quickly in the industry, including changes in employment. Here's a quick and dirty list of the biggest moves that hit our radar over the last couple of weeks: 

This week our Enterprise 2.0 pool saw another jumble of topics, including why making SharePoint a more Facebook-like experience does not equal an imminent encounter with Justin Bieber, and the release of iOS 4.3. 

While Spigit (news, site) is no stranger to using crowdsourcing techniques within organizations to propagate ideas and spur employees to share and engage -- think: internal suggestion box on steroids -- their launch of SpigitEngage for Facebook has put them squarely in the sights of something, or rather, someone, much larger: YOU.

In the world of idea management, even Spigit (news, site) admits that it can be difficult to ensure manual contribution from key authorities. Today's release of Spigit 3.1 and the new SpigitFusion automate that process, promising improvement in the quality of decision-making and pace of innovation.

Granicus (news, site) boosts its presence in the governmental cloud with the snappy purchase of a company that shares its vision of open government.

As usual, this week we learned that everything we know is wrong. Check out some adoption practices you probably never thought to try out ("impossible deadlines work best," for example), as well as the different faces of collaboration for innovation. 

Collaboration is not new to business, but the recent advent of Web 2.0 and Enterprise 2.0 tools and technologies have changed the collaborative abilities and scale of distributed collaboration for the enterprise. Whether it’s because the “World is Flat” or you want to tap the “Wisdom of Crowds,” collaboration, we are told should be a part of your business strategy.

 Spigit (news, site) continues to prove that its idea management platform is a solution worthwhile. This week the company reported record business results for the first half of fiscal 2010, including new customers, products and revenue growth.

 Spigit (news, site) is back in the news this week thanks to a partnership with Strategic Decisions Group. By combining forces, the pair promises to deliver collaborative, enterprise-level idea management solutions to Global 2000 companies and select government organizations.

Today Spigit (news, site) released a new iteration of their enterprise-level idea management platform, S3. The new version focuses on flexibility and scalability by bringing a new widget-based framework to the table.