2011 is promising exciting new developments and further accelerating progress in the field of innovation management. At Brightidea, we are honored to support impressive organizations such as yours at the forefront of innovation and we are looking forward to continuing to learn and grow with you in the future!

Speaking of the future, we would like to use this opportunity to give you a brief outlook on the road ahead. But in case you blinked during 2010, let’s start with a quick recap of some of last year’s highlights at Brightidea:

2010 was groundbreaking in many ways, from amazing innovation successes for our customers to Brightidea’s record growth and the development of our new Innovation Suite, the new industry standard for end-to-end innovation management software.

Success Stories of Innovation Excellence

GE’s $200M Ecomagination Challenge, powered by Brightidea, not only took open innovation to an unseen scale with over 4,000 collected ideas and over 70,000 users from all over the world, its results also exceeded expectations. Currently the corporation is implementing twelve new revolutionary business ideas and will launch its next open contest, “Powering your home,” today, January 18th.

Other companies have used Brightidea to expand their impact in new emerging markets. Cisco, for example, launched its first I-Prize Competition in Russia, a future key market for the technology leader, while YTL ran its $1M mYprize contest, an open developer challenge for the world’s first nationwide 4G communications network in Malaysia. Awards for innovation excellence were received by our customers HP, WMS, CLP, Nielsen and Adobe.

We are also proud to have supported many Government 2.0 initiatives across the world, among them the U.S. Department of State, The Republic of Ireland, The Flemish Government and the City of San Francisco.

The Evolution of Innovation Management is here! 

In November 2010, Brightidea released its long-awaited new Innovation Suite, the only true end-to-end innovation management software solution to monitor the social process of innovation from concept to cash. If you haven’t yet, take a look at our new product tour and contact us for an introduction to the Innovation Suite’s ground-breaking new features and functions.

Going Strong…

Brightidea has been growing steadily and fast in the last 12 months, welcoming great new customers like Kraft Foods, 7 for all Mankind, Autoliv, GM and many more. To support our growing client base effectively, we have added seasoned industry experts and bright talents to our team and expanded our community of partners, including IBM, Rally, GoodData and others.

In the coming months we look forward to helping all our current and new customers drive innovation success, be it through open idea challenges, employee innovation platforms, or targeted or broad-band WebStorms.

We hope to meet you in person at one of our Birds of a Feather Innovation Leaders (BOF) events. Our next BOF workshop will take place in Hong Kong in late spring. Further meetings will be announced in the coming months.

We started the year off maintaining 2010’s momentum, and are excited to work on great new projects for our clients and to introduce more new powerful features and enhancements for your innovation success.

Here is to a successful, innovative 2011!

-Brightidea Team