COMMUNITY MIRRORS FOR SUPPORTING CORPORATEINNOVATION AND MOTIVATION

In this paper we are exploring the idea of applying community support concepts and ubiquitous userinterfaces to supporting the motivation to innovate in corporate settings. Our special focus is on theearly phase of the innovation process – the phase of idea generation and suggestion management. Thekey idea is to provide awareness for a company’s creative potential and appreciation for the ideacreators in a corporate setting by displaying information from community platforms handling thesuggestion management process on public shared displays (“Idea Mirrors”) in the office space.