Phase 2 of the jam started today. I’ll be participating as time allows. On the negative side, they still haven’t been able to list Plan Resonate as a participant. This is unfortunate and I am discouraged when I see my posts attributed to Jeffrey Osborne, company: “Other”.

I do not work for “Other”. I work for Plan Resonate. You’ve come to the right place for more information about Plan Resonate.

On the indifferent side, I’ve decided to cross post all my innovation jam responses here. I say indifferent because it’s a drag only getting to share one side of the conversation. I’ll try to accomodate by excerpting small bits of context where it seems appropriate. If I’m contacted by big legal, I’ll let you know.

Another interesting change to the jam phase 2 is that they’re now using a wiki. This is an innovative step and should result in some positive results. The wiki is structured to parallel the jam’s four main topic areas, and each subcategory of those areas has an area for documenting a business plan and scenario planning.

To illustrate how they’ve got the wiki laid out; I’ve been interested in what they’re calling “Big Green” services. The general idea being explored is whether or how IBM can develop a sustainable management consulting practice. In the wiki area of the jam they have laid out a simple outline for some of the information areas you’d like to see in a business plan. It reminds me of some of the business planning that is taking place in the Coworking wiki (except it’s a closed system). Each potential section of the plan has an editable section for gathering and synthesizing ideas.

What’s missing from the business planning wiki? The ability to integrate spreadsheets. That would be extremely impressive. Next time…

In addition to the “business planning” area of each wiki subcategory, they’re highlighting an area called “use scenarios”. This is an example of mildly confusing nomenclature. I expected the link would take me to an area where I could use some scenario planning. But rather the area is meant to document scenarios in which the business plan can be used. Anyhow minor details aside, the wiki is a nicely implemented tool and I’m going to enjoy watching how the IBM’ers make use of it.

UPDATE: Socialtext released SocialCalc today, the open source wiki-based spreadsheet tool.

[tags]IBM, innovation jam, enterprise social media[/tags]