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Jeffrey Baumgartner

Thanks for including Spigit in your write-up. You're right – we are seeing great uptake by enterprise customers. Managing the multiple sources of ideas, and filtering for those that are most useful, is an *idea* that is taking root in the corporate world.

You raise some good questions about us, and I'll answer them here. First, in terms of complexity vs simplicity. The platform is actually quite easy for employees, customers and partners to use. It leverages some of the best practices one finds for social software: votes, tags, discussion forums, clickable reviews, wikis, blogs. We also provide a market for users to buy and sell ideas. Any or all of these are available for use when deployed, internally or externally.

We put a premium on a superior user experience.

The analytics engine and enterprise workflow of the platform is why companies are signing up for Spigit. Simple popularity contests for ideas do give a single metric – number of votes. Certainly that is a form of simplicity. But it's doesn't come close to mapping to the way innovation really works inside corporations. Spigit has designed-in functionality that reflects the different influence users have in advancing an idea forward.

Spigit's platform has enterprise workflow built-in. Role-based reviews and approvals, quantifiable criteria to advance through stages, and high configurability to adapt to each company's specific processes.

Happy to tell you more about what Spigit is up to. Please drop us a note at info@spigit.com.

Hutch Carpenter
Director of Marketing
Spigit, Inc.
http://spigit.com

I have to be honest; based on my understanding of Qualcomm's use of prediction markets, I'm really skeptical of how they're used. I understand that they're using PM's to rank new product/service ideas, which I think is an inappropriate use of PM's. What tends to happen is that people trade/buy those ideas that they think _other_ people will buy, and not necessarily the best ideas. I believe that doing so may find good ideas, but they'll be conventional ideas. The ground-breaking ideas won't get noticed.

That said, if they feel it works for them, that's fine. But I think there are other tools that are better suited for innovation. I'm doing a fair bit of work on this now, and hope to be able to talk about it more widely later this year.

Separately there are some folks to whom I would like to introduce you. Can we please connect via email? I look forward to catching up. If you are on Twitter please share your user name. I'm “sagenet”. Thanks