Innovation Software Web Mashup + Desktop App = Powerful Innovation Tool, ThoughtOffice

Released on: July 17, 2008, 1:47 am

Press Release Author: ThoughtOffice

Industry: Software

Press Release Summary: Innovation Software reaches a new milestone with the advent
of ThoughtOffice Brainstorming Software. An up-to-date successor to established
creativity software such as IdeaFisher and eXpertSystem, ThoughtOffice employs the
talents of more than 200 experts, MBAs, and PhDs to accelerate the brainstorming
process.

Press Release Body: Portland, OR, July 17, 2008 -- Innovation Software reaches a new
milestone with the advent of ThoughtOffice Brainstorming Software. An up-to-date
successor to established creativity software such as IdeaFisher and eXpertSystem,
ThoughtOffice employs the talents of more than 200 experts, MBAs, and PhDs to
accelerate the brainstorming process. The program offers users access to an
unprecedented knowledge base, accessible with a single keyword search or mouse
click. The questions are arranged across 16 individual disciplines, by topic and sub
topic, ranging from Strategic Planning or Public Speaking to Advertising and
Marketing.

ThoughtOffice software also links directly to multiple online databases, providing
updates in real time, with access to over 7,691,000 language elements and
keyword-tagged images for quick & easy idea generation.

How does ThoughtOffice work? With one program, it allows users to instantly access:

* 13,700 prompts & questions organized in 16 topical categories, to \"drill down\" and
explore problems or opportunities
* Definitions, Synonyms and Hypernyms for the entire English language
* Rhyming words and common phrases
* Over 1,500,000 stock photo image thumbnails, to visually prompt generation of new
ideas
* A Dynamic Word Association Engine, growing weekly by more than 4,000 words
* Over 1,000,000 popular quotations
* Over 1,000,000 song lyrics
* An Internet search term & keyword database, for use in advertising, marketing, and
research

With these resources integrated into one powerful program, a user\'s thinking process
can move outside the traditional box, and grow from linear to lateral, capturing the
natural flow of ideas. The biggest apparent breakthrough is that the software gives
users the ability to link the creative process directly to the real world, where
ideas are turned into successful products.

\"Creativity software has to offer dynamic content, otherwise it gets stale real
quickly\" says Mark Alan Effinger, Chief Evangelist and CEO of ThoughtOffice.
\"ThoughtOffice is like a visual outliner on steroids. The program includes
easy-to-use organizing tools like the built-in Topics Browser (our expert question
banks) and the IdeaBrowser (http://www.thoughtoffice.com/?page_id=7), our
Internet-connected idea search engine. ThoughtOffice can boost idea creation very
quickly, and help users share those ideas easily with others - whether in the same
room, or across the country.\"

ThoughtOffice is the result of many person-years of brainstorming software
development, an evolution that began with the release of IdeaFisher in the 1980s.
Widely considered to be the grandfather of ThoughtOffice, IdeaFisher was one of the
first commercially successful creativity programs for Mac or PC. According to
Effinger, \"We\'re convinced that ThoughtOffice fills a very real gap between
outlining and mind mapping. It\'s brainstorming software that aids the flow of the
user\'s creative process.\"

Martin Grossman, (http://marketingmatters.blogs.com/martin_grossman) well-known
marketing consultant, copywriter, and ThoughtOffice user, says, \"If creative people
need to write a proposal, prepare a meeting agenda, or wrap their minds around a
big, complex project, ThoughtOffice will help them do it faster and do it better.
People who think for a living have been waiting for a real breakthrough in
creativity software, and this program is that breakthrough.\"

ThoughtOffice Innovation Software offers real-time Internet-connected brainstorming,
problem solving, and original solutions for educators, life coaches, business
leaders, and consultants. Effective innovation calls for an extreme makeover of the
thinking process; ThoughtOffice provides the powerful remodeling tools, but employs
them in incremental, trackable steps. The software also provides easily followed
visual & conceptual road maps. Backtracking your idea is simple and organic. The
program keeps a log of every step in the innovation process, and allows the process
to be shared, replayed, protected, archived, and branded by the person who
brainstormed the innovation.

The program helps users refine a concept or solution by employing more than 13,700
questions and prompts, developed in collaboration with over 200 PhDs, MBAs and
domain experts. As business increasingly evolves into a business of ideas,
ThoughtOffice provides a bridge from the creative process to marketable products.

The ThoughtOffice creativity software suite is designed to help users:

* Install and get productive in less than 5 minutes
* Develop an idea a minute
* Craft a winning presentation in 10 minutes
* Solve a big problem with precision in 30 minutes
* Coach an executive in real-time
* Make productivity soar

About ThoughtOffice
ThoughtOffice Corporation is a Vancouver, Washington-based technology firm
specializing in innovation and business process development. Since 1986, the company
founders have successfully launched and sold nearly a dozen companies, from
advertising to e-commerce, from software to laser display technology. To create
ThoughtOffice, the development team interviewed over 800 innovators & business
leaders, and apprenticed with Marsh Fisher, founder of IdeaFisher, and co-founder of
Century 21 Real Estate. The resulting software freed brainstorming and innovation
from the lab and made it practical for daily use in fields such as business process
development, advertising, life coaching and strategic planning. The company can be
reached by phone at 360-609-9272, or visit the web site
(http://www.ThoughtOffice.com) for more information about purchasing ThoughtOffice
products.
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Contact :
Mark Alan Effinger
ThoughtOffice
Portland, OR
360-609-9272
dlock@richcontent.tv
http://www.ThoughtOffice.com

Web Site: http://www.ThoughtOffice.com

Contact Details: Contact :
Mark Alan Effinger
ThoughtOffice
Portland, OR
360-609-9272
dlock@richcontent.tv
http://www.ThoughtOffice.com

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