Category: Case Studies

Not Only For Ideas, Aparentely

We have a lot of clients that use Teepin for other purposes too – not only to gather ideas.

Because Teepin, albeit very easy and lightning fast to configure, has so many options, it really can be used in a myriad of ways. One of those options is the ability to send an instant email to groups’ managers, whenever a new idea is submited, for immediate assessment. This option is off by default, but some clients like it turned on:

One of our clients uses Teepin exclusively to record building incidents, related to maintenance and security. Whenever someone finds a burnt light bulb, a broken coffee machine, a mysterious package lying around or even a lost object, submits the incident (= “idea”) on Teepin. Each type of incident is submited under a different category (= “group”) so the responsible for that category (= “group manager”) gets immediately an email on the incident, so it can be taken care of as quickly as possible.

And to take care of it is really simple too: just forward the incident to someone that can fix it (=”implement the idea”) and that person will have a new item on the “To-Do” tab. Once fixed, it reports the incident as such (= “implemented”) and the responsible person then acknowledges it.

If it’s something worth keeping an eye on, just choose someone to follow-up on it from time to time, and to report back each time! Teepin allows for all that.

Wouldn’t you like to have such a simple and friendly tool for that purpose in your organization?…


Crowd Control – CFO.com

by David McCann – CFO.com | US
February 10, 2010

Motorola uses a prediction-market variant to determine which among thousands of employee-submitted ideas merit a further look.

In 2003 Motorola rolled out a system through which employees could propose ideas for products or anything else that might boost the company's value. By one measure it was an unqualified success: it produced 10,000 ideas over the next four years.

But the volume of submissions to the system, called Think Tank, overwhelmed the review boards that were set up to vet the ideas. A backlog swelled, and missed opportunities abounded. In one case, a competitor brought out a product with features that had been suggested by a Motorola employee years earlier [...]”

via Crowd Control – Business Intelligence – CFO.com.