Partnership between Cambridge Technology Partners and Spigit

Idea and innovation management increasingly important for sustainable business success

Nyon/Zurich – July 18, 2011 – Cambridge Technology Partners (CTP), leading Swiss IT consulting company, is pleased to announce a partnership with Spigit, leading provider of collective idea and innovation management software. CTP is already involved in several projects that aim to promote innovation. With this partnership, CTP is further strengthening its consultancy and implementation expertise in this fast-growing market segment.

Solutions for idea and innovation management bring genuine added value to companies, and demand is correspondingly growing; for example, market researchers at Gartner estimate that over the next two to five years, applications for idea and innovation management will reach the mass market. CTP supports customers with its experience in resolving organizational challenges of innovation management, and in identifying effective innovation processes to put them – combined with its functional know-how and project management expertise – into place.

The partnership with Spigit allows CTP to optimally address customers’ needs for comprehensive solutions in the field of idea and innovation management. Spigit’s applications enable organisations to collect and to develop the ideas of employees, business partners and customers in an effective, efficient and organised manner, and to transform the most promising ones into concrete implementation projects. This means companies are able to activate their whole collective intelligence and to use their entire innovation potential, to reinforce or expand their market position.

“Innovations are crucially important to long-term success”, says Vijay Srinivasan, CEO of Cambridge Technology Partners. “Companies of all sizes have to continuously reinvent themselves in order to defend their market position or to gain additional market shares. Our long-standing consulting experience in combination with the leading solution for idea and innovation management from Spigit helps customers to execute corresponding initiatives and to implement the associated necessary processes. By this means, innovation is made a constant companion, and not a once-off event.”