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Scott Berkun: Stop saying innovation - here’s why

Scott’s book “The Myths of Innovation” is an Amazon.com Top 100 choice for 2007

Am very delighted/pleased/happy that Scott Berkun has answered my question at scottberkun.com » Ask Berkun (Friday mailbag) and btw has pointed to collatodo

Thanks a lot Scott. Please do register and use collatodo

Kishore asks: when too many ideas are created in a company, have you seen a efficient (and web 2.0) way for colleagues (every knowledge worker) to rank each other’s ideas ? and select the top and implement? (See collatodo)

This is never the big problem. There are a zillion ways to track ideas and they’ve been around for a long time (A whiteboard, a spreadsheet, a wiki, any database, etc.). The lack of a tool for this is not the reason why a team isn’t creative, or isn’t making good products. It’s that the people with power are not putting them into action.

I agree that the people with power are not putting them into action. But still, are the people with power able to view the top ideas in an organization (by areas/components/functions/tags) ?

Let us assume that you are 1 of 10 members in a department.

All of you have ideas

How does everyone document/submit ideas and make your top 10 visible to your fellow members?

How do you help rate/rank/support the others’ ideas ?

How does the team lead see the top ideas across all the team members ?

collatodo has a beautiful solution for this situation ! Do note that the “ideas” can be replaced with anything! hotels, books, movies, etc.

A very practical use case: The team lead wants to buy fruits for the team members. Does he know what the team prefers? Answer: collatodo fruits