IBM Idea Exchange for Business Partners - the review
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Bruce made a posting on this and I had a commented that I hesitated making a full blog posting until the site grew in usage some. But today I received another email from IBM that they were shutting down the site today and to hurry over. Well I hurried over, to see only 44 postings total in the site.
So I jumped back a page to get the push of what the site was supposed to do. Ahh, create topics for work between IBM and the Business Partners. There was an interesting amount of topics around IBM and green initiatives in there. The rest were scattered. So my thought it that IBM had this set for a fixed time to build up some quick ideas and then work on those. Only 7 of the ideas had a catalyst take them on as a project. Here, this screenshot describes it better.
So I say the idea to have the idea exchange was valiant, but not enough people knew of it or took part to make any difference. Forcing it out of existence this quick also stops ideas from growing. This was not a brainstorm site, a discussion board can't live one week like that unless everyone is spending each day in there. If you have an IBM partner id then go take a look.
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On Friday, February 15th, 2008 by Chris Miller
