Amy Muller and Nate Hutchins say a productive,
sustainable electronic innovation platform is much more
than a site to collect ideas. How many of you have
launched an electronic suggestion box with great
expectations of innovative ideas to transform the
business? And how many of those expectations were
realized? Actually, a well-designed electronic
suggestion box is only part of the solution. To solicit
and receive good ideas and to make those ideas into
reality requires a system that goes beyond the
suggestion box. To successfully leverage all that IT has
to offer to front line innovation, IT leaders must keep
a few things in mind.