Tuesday, November 13, 2007

Innovative Ideas....

I have been thinking for long to start my own blog and finally i did it today ;-)

Lets see how it helps me to share my innovative ideas with everyone and express myself through this medium. I have been impressed earlier by reading other people blogs. especially with the idea of free flow on thoughts in this way.

Innvovative Ideas....

Idea 1 : Widgets/Gadgets for Business Apps :

I have been toying with the idea on how does Widgets or Gadgets (Yahoo , Google and Vista) help users and been pretty impressed by their look and feel, specific usage, pulling information when you need it, not wasting time in searching info on web, easy to install, can be hidden when not needed etc..

Also i was wondering if there are any such widgets which can pull info from CRM or ERP apps and bring it to desktop.Not sure if there any exist but could not find one.(if you have something then please share ) Most of the widgets were focusing on info being pulled from external exposed websites and not from internal apps. Now a days lot of Apps are available on hosted environment and have secured access available. In such scenario how the widgets will perform need to be figured out.

To take this forward i thought :

How we will decide which kind of widgets are required from CRM users ?
I think it would depend upon the profile and needs of the end users. Like sales people will have different requirements from marketing and support people.

What are the parameters which will help decide on the information needed in widgets ?
Is it something which i need to track, which is changing with time, which is actionable information, which will help me take some timely and proactive decisions/ actions, etc...


I would welcome thoughts/ Ideas on this.. Please feel free to share. I am compiling a list of Widgets which will be good for End users of CRM.

I will keep sharing the more of such ideas as they pop up in my mind ;-)

- Sunny