Kindling Idea Management software

Arc90 is New york based consultancy firm  working with clients seeking to infuse innovation. In 2009 they released Kindling an Idea collaboration tool.There are many more projects in pipe line -see arc90Lab.

Apart from Commercial firms, Kindling is also used by US govt to improve Veterans Benefits. Take a free trial:

 http://www.kindlingapp.com/free-trial/

ACM Challenge of Code 2010

ACM ( Association for Computing Machinery) Bangalore launches "Challenge of Code" which will celebrate and award innovative/ quality projects in the open source domain.

• Organizations can submit ideas online at http://ideas.intuit.in/
• Partcipating organization should assign a Project Manager to administer the project.
• ACM Bangalore will notify the project manager of acceptance.
• Selected organizations can create their projects on Intuit’s Brainstorm platform.
• Individual developers and programmers than vote on the Intuit platform to work with a particular organization leading to the formation of teams.
• If the organization finds the individual competent enough to work on the project then the organization invites the individual to work on the project and the participants are notified of acceptance.
• Participants get familiar with the organizations they would be working with
• Participants start working with the concerned organization on the official start date of the challenge
• ACM Bangalore will provide the platform for the participants to work
• Participants and organizations give midterm gate reviews and evaluations
• Final work will be reviewed by the judges selected by ACM Bangalore team and the best entries will be awarded as determined in the sole discretion of the Judges. 

Aikon Labs

Planet Aikon is an `Enterprise Idea Management & Execution Platform' promoted by RR Dasgupta andDilip Thomas Ittyera. Aikon Labs LLC ,the start-up venture behind PlanetAikon™ is incorporated in the State of Delaware in US and the core team is based out of Pune. We need to encouarge Idea Management tools and Platforms and this is an welcome addition.

Made to Stick- why some ideas surive and others die

Most ideas die soon after birth- a shattering moment to all innovators. In this book, authors Chip Heath (Prof in OB from Graduate School of Business at Stanford University) and Dan Heath (consultant at Duke Corporate Education) give us 6 tips to make ideas survive. Simplicity, Unexpectedness, Concreteness, Credibility, Emotional and Stories are the tools, illustrated with cases including one Indian case `Safexpress' . Read more about the book at:
www.madetostick.com

Brightidea products

Brightidea offers idea management tools such as Brightidea platform, WebStorm, Switchboard & Pipeline. For a demo contact
http://www.brightidea.com/products-schedule-demo.bix