With 20 years experience in consulting for Fortune 500 companies, Idea Champions has a well-respected approach to creativity and innovation. Always working in the Fun Factor, we know it is far more effective to work with human nature instead of against it. So Ingenuity Bank has an enjoyable Web interface, one that combines High Tech with High Touch to quickly form a virtual community dedicated to innovation.

Our innovation philosophy is simple. If an organization can unlock the creative 'inner genie' of enough of their workforce, and good process is combined with well-designed idea management software, the collective wisdom can be tapped for a steady stream of new thinking. Our Ingenuity Bank software, backed by our consultants, can help your organization take innovation and idea management to the next level.

Mitch Ditkoff, CEO - (aka 'Virtual Mitch') is the co-founder and President of Idea Champions. He specializes in leading highly engaging creative thinking and teambuilding sessions that enable individuals, teams and entire organizations to develop new products, services, and breakthrough ways of doing business. Educated at Lafayette College and Brown University, Mr. Ditkoff has worked with a wide variety of Fortune 500 and mid-sized companies who have realized the need to do something different in order to succeed in today's rapidly changing marketplace. He is rightly famous for his brainstorming exercises, his Free The Genie card deck and his juggling

Michael Schacker, COO, CTO - is the Chief Operating and Technology Officer of Ingenuity Bank. Michael, it must be known, is the visionary who originally conjured up the idea for Ingenuity Bank and proposed it to Idea Champions. Michael has been developing software for the past 19 years and is the creator of VisionMapper, software that enables organizations to streamline their process of creating and executing a company-wide vision. (VisionMapper is currently being used at Warner Music, Xerox Illinois, GM The Works (GM Media division), and West LB. Drawing on his eight years of OD experience, Michael brings Organization Development theory into the very design of Ingenuity Bank, helping to create a Web environment that nurtures creativity and a virtual innovation community. Today he is leading the charge once again into the future, with the Virtual Mitch videos and the texting in of ideas through cell phones.

Bill Shockley - brings over six years of idea management experience to Idea Champions. Bill has worked on nearly thirty implementations of idea management software, more than anyone in the world. Bill believes that idea management is not simply the successor to the old box-on-the-wall suggestion systems, but is an essential and integral part of any innovation program, whether that innovation is for new product development, process improvement, cost reduction or other initiatives. He has found that companies who implement idea management have a very high return on investment and a strong competitive advantage.

Maryanne Normann, Product Development Manager - has developed Ingenuity Bank from the beginning and is responsible for designing many of the innovative features. She has created robust intranet applications for Fortune 500 companies, and is a 15-year master at programming and the ColdFusion database language. Maryanne leads the several members of the programming team, always pushing the software forward to the next level. Maryanne believes that simple but powerful is better than complex and powerful, which is why everybody finds Ingenuity Bank to be so easy! The third generation of idea management from Idea Champions. Ingenuity Bank helps build a new culture of by providing both a tool and a place to come together on the Web, making possible a virtual innovation community. Based on a practical underlying process, Ingenuity Bank integrates idea management with 20 years innovation consulting experience to create a design that is powerful, simple and fun. Besides the Fun Factor, so important in brainstorming and creativity, creativity e-tools, video training and interactive video-powered exercises help your workforce brainstorm high-quality ideas to meet the challenges of your business.

PRODUCTS
Ingenuity Bank has all the most popular technical features of second-generation idea management, and then goes beyond the old limits. So version 4.0 allows UNLIMITED IDEA DRIVES. Employees or even customers can now TEXT MESSAGE in their ideas. And the software is super-easy to learn, even for administrators - NO TRAINING IS NEEDED. It's developed with COLDFUSION, allowing RAPID CUSTOMIZATION and EASY INSTALLATION on your organization's intranet (we can also HOST). There's also INSPIRATIONAL CONTENT to help in ideation, as well as some quick E-LEARNING ON BRAINSTORMING.

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For a 45-minute demo, call 1-732-226-4053 or 1-800-755-IDEA. You will be connected to an idea management consultant who knows what they're talking about. Idea Champions has NO salespeople!

Live Consulting or Events Instead of cobbling together different vendors and philosophies now there's one-stop shopping for innovation. Idea Champions offers consulting and process design that is fully integrated with Ingenuity Bank. Leadership Alignment, 'High-Velocity' Brainstorming, and other sessions, help to build a strong culture of innovation, especially if your organization is 'starting from scratch'.