Mindjet and Spigit Merge to Advance Repeatable Business Innovation
(Thomson Reuters ONE) -
The Global Leaders in Project-Based Collaboration and Enterprise Innovation Join
Forces to Create the First Business Platform That Delivers Real Business Results
SAN FRANCISCO, CA and LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM--(Marketwired - Sep 16, 2013) -
Mindjet®, the leader in project-based collaboration software, and Spigit®, the
leading innovation management platform, announced their merger creating the
first business platform that effectively manages innovation from idea creation
to opportunity selection to project completion.
Mindjet is used by 83% of the Fortune 100(TM), and over two million global
users, to brainstorm and plan on virtual whiteboards, create and co-edit plans,
share files, and keep everyone on the same page with real-time task & project
management. In 2012 Mindjet was the most awarded collaboration company, winning
eight high-profile awards. Nearly two million users worldwide and over 3,000
companies, including leading brands across retail, healthcare, financial,
technology, government, insurance, utilities and pharmaceutical industries use
Spigit to make innovation a mission critical, repeatable, predictable and
quantifiable business process. In 2012, Inc. Magazine listed Spigit as the #1
fastest growing private software company in California. Spigit continued to
build upon its momentum in 2013 with record revenue growth and Forrester
identified Spigit as a leader in Innovation Management.
The combination of Mindjet and Spigit will create the first enterprise platform
that drives business results through repeatable business innovation. According
to a recent survey conducted by Bain & Company, two-thirds of executives at
companies generating over $100 million in revenue named innovation as one of
their top three priorities. Yet, in that same survey, less than a quarter of the
same executives believed their companies were effective innovators. In a similar
Accenture survey of large enterprise executives, 70% ranked innovation among
their top five business priorities and said that a holistic process is key to
successful outcomes. Today's companies require a software platform that goes
beyond social business in the workplace and helps them integrate innovation into
their business processes to grow their business. Mindjet and Spigit help
companies innovate to identify their best ideas and then manage those
opportunities to completion.
Social Business needs to go beyond simple communication for employee
involvement. Unlike previous generations of Social Business software, the
expanded offerings supports the full Vision to Action(TM) Lifecycle, allowing
businesses to manage innovation from ideas through successful completion.
Businesses can use crowdsourcing, mind mapping, big data analytics and game
mechanics technology to surface and develop the very best ideas, and then bring
those ideas to market with a purpose-driven project management suite.
Following the merger, Mindjet and Spigit will integrate and Spigit's executive
team will assume leadership roles within the newly expanded Mindjet organization
led by Mindjet CEO Scott Raskin.
For more information go to www.mindjet.com/spigit.
Supporting Quotes
"BECU places a premium on member and employee engagement. We have powered our
innovation needs and increased our employee collaboration, alignment, and
commitment around the future of our organization. The response at BECU has been
fantastic. We are looking forward to the addition of complementary collaborative
project management capabilities providing a complete, end-to-end social business
platform from Mindjet and Spigit."
- Jeffrey Duke, Manager of Collaborative Innovation, Boeing Employees Credit
Union
"The expanded Mindjet will help us solve some of the problems facing our
organization. While we are making progress helping project teams communicate,
plan, and manage more effectively, the combination of Mindjet and Spigit will
allow us to work across individual project teams to gain broader participation
in ideation, engage disparate parts of our company in collaboration, and move
plans into action more quickly. At the same time we are trying to forge a
common, unifying culture across the many silos created by the nature of our
project-driven work. The merged strengths of these products provide a tangible
way to address this need."
- Bob Spielvogel, chief technology officer, EDC
"Social business solutions should provide the ability to capture insight,
intelligently filter information and deliver it into action in the business. The
merger of Mindjet and Spigit brings together the core elements that drive
business value from social solutions; process, structure, business context and
relevance."
- Vanessa Thompson, Research Manager, Enterprise Social Networks and
Collaborative Technologies, IDC
"Idea generation and idea implementation are part of a natural flow in
innovation. The market lacks a complete solution in innovation management today.
More importantly, companies need to move from getting work done to succeeding in
purposeful collaboration."
- R. "Ray" Wang, principal analyst & CEO, Constellation Research
"The combination of Mindjet and Spigit introduces the first enterprise software
to deliver a repeatable process from driving innovation -- from idea generation
through opportunity selection through project execution. Mindjet will help
customers not only to develop a pipeline of transformative ideas but also to
commercialize them and take them to market."
- Scott Raskin, CEO, Mindjet
"Together, Mindjet and Spigit will set a new competitive standard, redefining
the innovation process, from idea creation to project completion, ensuring that
our customers' greatest ideas become their greatest successes."
- Paul Pluschkell, CEO, Spigit
About Mindjet
Mindjet software makes team collaboration on projects simple and smart by
getting what's important out front: your ideas. Brainstorm and plan on virtual
whiteboards, create and co-edit plans, share files, and keep everyone on the
same page with real-time task & project management. Mindjet is used by 83% of
the Fortune 100(TM) and works with your current IT investments and on whatever
web-enabled devices you use. It integrates with your most-used enterprise apps,
including Microsoft Office & Project, SharePoint(®), Yammer, and Box. For more
information, visit http://www.mindjet.com/.
About Spigit
Spigit is the global leader in Enterprise Innovation Management, helping
organizations unleash the creativity of employees, customers and partners to
find transformative ideas that drive growth. Leveraging crowdsourcing, game
mechanics and big data analytics, Spigit's platform is helping the world's
leading brands invent disruptive products, generate new revenue streams, build
an innovation culture, reduce costs and significantly improve employee and
customer engagement. Highly respected companies in the Retail, Healthcare,
Financial, Technology, Government, Insurance, Utilities and Pharmaceutical
industries use Spigit. Headquartered in San Francisco's Bay Area, Spigit is the
innovation engine that drives growth and a key player in the social enterprise
market. Spigit was recognized in the 2012 Inc. 500|5000 as the #1 fastest
growing private software company in the California and the 4th fastest growing
company in the software sector in the United States. For more information, visit
http://www.Spigit.com or follow us on Twitter (at)Spigit.
Mindjet and 'Vision to Action' are trademarks of Mindjet, which may be
registered in the U.S. and other countries. Spigit is a registered trademark of
Spigit, Inc. Microsoft and SharePoint are registered trademarks of Microsoft
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trademarks of their respective owners.
For further information please contact:
Whizpr
Rinske van den Bos / Yvon Reitsma
mindjet(at)whizpr.nl
T: +31 317 410 483
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