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SimNet Review on InnovationTools.Com
Chuck Frey reviewed our flexible idea management tool.

New Article by Jim Schwarz on Strategic Collaboration
Integrating Social Networking with Idea Management to Drive Innovation. Contact us for a copy.
Overview of Idea Management
Innovating by Capturing and Sharing People's Ideas -  reviews the many idea systems that comprise idea management (updated June 2010).  
 
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Celebrating our 24th year supporting organizational innovation!

This section reviews in detail our SIM-Integrated Idea Management software product line. Our easy to use software is designed to reflect your needs for a best-practice quality improvement processes or recognition efforts.

The software easily adapts to meet the process and operating style you use for employee involvement. This includes teams, recognition, corrective actions and employee ideas. You can also choose to use our flexible off-the-shelf software or have Total Quality Systems (TQS) custom design a process for you.

Customers include: County of San Diego, Boots Contract Manufacturing, Defense Logistics Agency, Delphi Automotive (East Flint site in picture), GM - Brazil, INCO Ltd., NUMMI, Holsum Bakery, Subaru Izuzu Automotive

Brochure Describing SIM-Integrated Idea Management Software Products (Adobe PDF 411 KB)


For an idea based process such as a suggestion system, each idea is logged with:

The participant names.
Text information about the idea.
Department or cost center information to link it to management.
Categorizing the idea using keywords (sort fields). For instance, there could be three keyword groups: product, process and strategy. Using the keywords allows SIM to find related ideas and duplicate items.
SIM provides powerful and unique information on the costs involved, the sources of the errors, the sources of solutions, savings generated and other key data. This allows management to make appropriate decisions based on SIM reports.
These ideas can be routed via paper forms. You can go paperless and allow users to directly enter on-line their ideas using our SIM-Net web-based or SIM-Easy software. In this approach kiosks could be used.
Participants can be notified via printed mail merge letters or automated e-mails created by SIM.
Status information can be provided to management via a wide range of reports and graphs. These can be printed or e-mailed to recipients.

As always, we are trying to improve our product. Please e-mail us with any ideas or concerns that you might have.

NOTE: 60 day DEMOS are available for SIM-Admin, SIM-Basic, and Quality Improvement Team Tracker at a cost of $35.00 each (see the ordering section to place an order) or contact us. For customers outside North America, contact us for the price to ship a demo.

Software Product Description Requirements
SimNet 8 Enterprise
The ideal solution for organizations wanting to manage ideas, recognition or teaming across multiple facilities in a single central database. Each facility can have their own programs separately managed within the same central database. Fully integrated with e-mail and popular client/server backends. Web front end for submitters, team members, managers and other participants to view status and enter information.
Windows 2000, XP or Vista. SQL Server or SQL Server Express.
The Team Effectiveness Assessement module scores the unique mini-surveys that TQS & Assessement Systems International developed. Linked with the QITT module they comprise a highly effective tool to manage teams. Click here to view more information.
Windows 2000 or XP.
SIM 6
All SIM 6 products have been discontinued and replaced by the completely new SimNet 8. We are happy the SIM 6 product-line served customers for over a decade and equally proud of our new product line. This includes: SIM-Admin, SIM-Basic, SIM-Easy, SIM-Mail and SIM-Net versions 6.6.
Discontinued

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