Management consulting firm sees tremendous opportunity to introduce Spigit's crowd-sourcing software to corporate and government clients in the Middle East.
Management consulting firm Strategic Decisions Group (SDG) said today that its recently announced partnership with Spigit will accelerate the introduction of innovation and idea management tools in Europe and the Middle East.
Last month, SDG and Spigit announced their partnership to introduce Spigit's comprehensive, collaborative, enterprise-wide innovation management software to SDG corporate and government clients to enhance their innovation management and capital allocation processes.
"Using Spigit's platform, enterprises can engage their employees and external stakeholders - including customers and partners - in strategic innovation," said Mazen A. Skaf, managing director of the SDG's Europe & Middle East Practice. "Our joint work with Spigit will enable mass collaboration across the stages of strategic innovation from ideation, to splicing of ideas, to prioritization, to portfolio balancing and management."
The SDG-Spigit partnership has identified the Middle East as a key growth market. Through SDG's Europe and Middle East Practice, Spigit has access to the MENA region, and SDG's corporate and government clients have access to Spigit's innovation and idea management tools. The Spigit platform is currently being evaluated by companies in financial services, manufacturing, and general contracting, as well as by government entities in the Middle East.
Spigit's government product, CitizenSpigit, "is a great enabler for participative government and fits well with SDG's solutions for project prioritization and optimal resource allocation in the public sector," said Dr. Skaf.
Spigit's partnership with SDG marks Spigit's first collaboration with a management consulting firm of its size, and an opportunity for both companies to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of their mutual clients' strategic innovation and capital allocation processes.
"SDG is a recognized leader in strategy, innovation, and risk management," Paul Pluschkell, CEO and co-founder of Spigit. "We're very pleased to partner with them to provide the much-needed solution to engage a broad cross section of employees and other stakeholders in the process of ideation and innovation management in their client organizations."
Spigit's award-winning solutions are already in use by many Fortune 2000 companies and other well-known brands at the forefront of innovation, including AT&T, Lloyds Banking Group, MedPlus, Southwest Airlines and Choice Hotels International. The company was recently named to InformationWeek's Startup 50 list of the top business technology startups as selected by readers and editors.
SDG has a long history of working with clients in innovation-intensive and capital-intensive industries in strategy development, strategic innovation, and R&D portfolio management, optimal resource allocation and risk management. The company's clientele includes select government entities and industry leaders in technology and communications, energy, infrastructure, consumer goods, and manufacturing.
For more information about Spigit's solutions, visit www.Spigit.com; for more information about SDG's consulting services, visit www.sdg.com.
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About Spigit
Spigit is the leading provider of purpose-built innovation software for the enterprise connecting employees, customers and business partners for idea management and innovation discovery. Using enterprise-grade social technology, Spigit's software taps into the collective intelligence within an organization and transforms it into actionable, predictive information. By incorporating incentives, idea graduation, idea trading and real-time analytics, Spigit allows companies to get the most out of their key assets. Our technologies are used by the largest and most innovative companies in the world including: Pfizer, AT&T, Southwest Airlines, Allstate, AAA, and Lloyds TSB. Spigit currently powers innovation projects at numerous Fortune 2000 companies and has been named Best of Software Interop 2008 and is listed on the AlwaysOn Global 250 list, the power list of the top 250 private global technology companies. For more information, visit http://www.Spigit.com.
About Strategic Decisions Group
Founded in 1981, Strategic Decisions Group is an international management consulting firm renowned for its expertise strategic decision-making, risk management, and shareholder value creation. Through a collaborative, team-based approach, SDG helps clients find innovative, creative strategies to thrive today, while also helping them build internal competencies and more effective decision-making processes to meet competitive challenges in the future. SDG has offices in North America, Europe, the Middle East, Asia-Pacific, and India. For more information, visit http://www.sdg.com .
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Rita Ragavlas
Strategic Decisions Group
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Email: rragavlas@sdg.com
Richard L. Tso
Spigit
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Email: rtso@Spigit.com
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