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Gi2MO Types is a taxonomy designed to be used for annotation of ideas in Idea Management Systems. The following document contains the description of taxonomy and instructions how to connect it with other metadata of Idea Management Systems and their other resources.
The following specification is a formal description of taxonomy proposal that can be applied to annotate ideas stored in Idea Management Systems. The goal of the following section is to provide the basic knowledge to comprehend the technical part of the specification. As such it shall introduce the topic of Idea Management Systems and areas related to the Gi2MO project - Semantic Web and publication of open data on the web.
An important note is that Gi2MO Types taxonomy presented here is not a complete model to address the problem of describing and linking ideas inside and between distributed Idea Management Systems. It marly defines concepts that are not described yet by the means of other taxonomies or standards and provides the data attributes that create the basis for establishing clustering and classification facilities for Idea Management Systems. For detailed instructions and recommendations how to use the taxonomy to achieve the aforementioned goals please refer to the guidelines of the Gi2MO project.
Idea Management Systems, in a great simplification, can be considered as an evolution of suggestions boxes used for collecting input from customers. The said systems have went above and beyond mere collection of ideas and aspire to be tools for idea assessment, analysis and sometimes even deployment of innovation. Idea Management Systems take advantage of computer networks and web technologies to reach a large number of customers or enterprise employees at the same time, gather their ideas and invite to collaboration for improving those ideas.
The use of IT infrastructure enables to collect big amounts of ideas in a fairly small amount of time but also brings the problem how to respond to the ideas from the community in a timely manner and how to continuously stimulate this crowd to keep supplying new ideas. Furthermore, in systems running over large periods of time the amount of ideas counted in tens of thousands becomes almost impossible to browse and manage either by moderators or users. All the said problems lower the efficiency of the systems or even put their usage into question. Gi2MO Types taxonomy is one of the building blocks for improving data organisation in Idea Management Systems and thus finding a solution to the aforementioned problems.
In relation to other IT systems used in modern organisations, at the time of writing this specification the Idea Management Systems have not been yet introduced as a standard component as part of the most popular ERP, PLM/PLCM or CRM suites. Idea Management, in relation to those systems, is still being considered as a rising market and a complementary solution that can be supplied depending on organisation's interest in investment in innovation.
In relation to other processes run in the modern enterprises, Idea Management can be defined as part of Innovation Management Process run as part of innovation strategy in many contemporary enterprises. Idea Management is perceived as complementary solution to this process that delivers tools that can enhance the successfulness of the innovation management process and open it to new possibilities.
The Semantic Web is a W3C initiative that aims to introduce rich metadata to the current Web and provide machine readable and processable data as a supplement to human-readable Web.
Semantic Web is a mature domain that has been in research phase for many years and with the increasing amount of commercial interest and emerging products is starting to gain appreciation and popularity as one of the rising trends for the future Internet.
One of the corner stones of the Semantic Web is research on inter-linkable and interoperable data schemas for information published online. Those schemas are often referred to as ontologies or vocabularies. In order to facilitate the concept of ontologies that lead to a truly interoperable Web of Data, W3C has proposed a series of technologies such as RDF and OWL. Gi2MO Types uses those technologies and the research that comes within to publish the characteristics of ideas together with other metadata and enable the easy portability and integration of this information across different Idea Management Systems.
The goals of the Gi2MO Types taxonomy to achieve as a knowledge modelling framework are:
The Gi2MO Types diagram presented below shows the hierarchy of terms organised following the main assumption of the taxonomy that:
Level | Term Name | Description | Example |
1 | TRIGGER | What has caused creation of the idea / what is the inspiration | - |
2 | Observation Type | Type of Trigger. Defines what was the observation of the inventor due to the event that he experienced. | - |
3 | Faulty Experience | A problem/ failure of a product that caused a the creative process. | - |
4 | Potential Cause | If a cause of the problem was identified. | - |
3 | Lack of Feature | The innovation was triggered by the fact that object lacked some kind of feature. | - |
3 | Potential Opportunity | The ideas was triggered by a person that was not displeased with the way it worked by has foreseen that an addition to the product could improve it. | - |
2 | Creativity Origin | Points to what kind of event triggered the innovation. | - |
3 | Event | The innovation was not triggered by direct innovation with some object but by some event. | - |
4 | Idea Contest | Idea was specifically triggered by idea contests and incentives that come with | - |
4 | Object Release | Premiere of a new object to the market or audience. | - |
5 | New Object | Premiere of a fully new object. | - |
5 | Object Update | Premiere of a new refreshed version of an already existing object. | - |
4 | Promotional Event | Event related to the object of innovation. | - |
4 | Related Event | Undefined event related in some way to the object. | - |
4 | Object Purchase | Idea was created as a result of purchasing the object by the client. | - |
4 | Object Observation | Idea triggered by plain object observation or interacting with object related information without any particular intent. | - |
4 | Object Comparison | Idea created during comparison with some other object. | - |
3 | Object Interaction | A person interacting with the object and discovering some new need or problem. | - |
2 | Associated Object | Object connected to the trigger of innovation. | - |
3 | Object of Innovation | Innovation was triggered by interaction with the same object that is the topic of idea. | - |
3 | Other Object | Type of Trigger. The inventor has came up with an idea by comparison of the object with some other product/service/process. | - |
4 | Object Relation | Defines the relation of the object that triggered the idea and the object that is the topic of the idea. | - |
5 | Competitive | If the object that triggered innovation was a competitive solution. | - |
5 | Complementary | If the object that triggered innovation was a complementary solution that works together with the object to fulfil some OTHER function/goal. (removing one of the objects makes it impossible to fulfil this function). | Idea: I use a scanner a lot so I would like it to be embedded in the laptop. |
5 | Supplementary | If the object that triggered innovation was a solution that works on top of the existing and delivers some new value but does redefine the end functionality. | Idea: Working with a mouse made me furious when I could not put the pad next to laptop because of the bad USB ports positioning. |
5 | Unrelated | The innovation was triggered by neither complementary or competitive solution. | - |
4 | Offering Placement | Determines if the other object that is the means of comparison is part of own offering or some other party. | - |
5 | Own | Object that triggered the innovative ideas come from own offering. | - |
5 | Other Party | Object that triggered the innovative ideas come from offering of some other party. | - |
1 | INNOVATION | Characteristics of the proposal and its impact | - |
2 | Dependence | Innovation is dependent in some way on some other idea. | - |
3 | Proceeds | After the described innovation is implemented it is going to be possible to unlock other idea. | ideaA: Keyboard for iPhone. ideaB: Backlit keyboard for iPhone. |
3 | Follows | The innovation realization is dependent on implementing some other idea first. | ideaA: Keyboard for iPhone. ideaB: Backlit keyboard for iPhone. |
3 | Encapsulates | Innovation that reproduces other idea(s) but also adds new value. | - |
3 | Duplicaes | Innovation that exactly reproduces already existing idea. | - |
3 | Excludes | Introducing this innovation causes the inability to implement some other innovation. | - |
3 | Is Part Of | Innovation that has been also described in another idea that also shows a bigger scope and discusses other items. | - |
2 | Target Audience | Defines if the innovation imposes a change in the audience or not (relative to current state of the object of innovation). | - |
3 | New Audience | Innovation relates to shifting the object to fit new market/customer. | - |
3 | Existing Audience | Updates of an existing object to fit the changing needs of current customers. | - |
2 | Orginality | Defines the size/scope of innovation in relation to existing ideas, state or offering. | - |
3 | New | Completely new idea/design not based on anything created before. | - |
3 | Incremental | Improvement for an existing object. | - |
4 | Additive | Improvement made by adding a new element to a previous proposal. | ideaA - new keyboard, ideaB - new backlit keyboard |
4 | Subtractive | Improvement made by simplifying other proposal and removing an element from the previous proposal. | ideaA - serve breakfast with bread, tea, cornflakes, ideaB - serve breakfast only with cornflakes. |
4 | Replacement | Improvement made just be replacing some element of the previous proposal. | ideaA - colorA, ideaB - colorB OR putting glossy screen to laptop offerring (incremental modification because there are already glossy screens just not for this particular line). |
3 | None | This is a special instance for idea mgt systems that indicates that idea hold no real innovation at all. | - |
3 | Relative To | Describes innovation characteristics abstraction level (e.g. if something is innovation with respect to local market or global market). | idea: Laptop keyboard dock for iPhone. Organization level: Breakthrough (product does not exist yet). Global Market: None (Motorola Atrix already has this) |
4 | Current State | Innovation described in relation to the current state of some entity or environment | - |
5 | Organisation | Innovation described with respect to organization processes/product/services | - |
6 | StructureUnit | Innovation describe with respect to some particular element of the administrative structure of the organization. | - |
7 | Group | Innovation described with respect to group level of the company. | - |
7 | Department | Innovation described with respect to department level of the company. | - |
7 | Branch | Innovation described with respect to branch level of the company. | - |
6 | Product Line | Innovation describe with respect to a product line. | E.g. Vostro Laptops or iPods. |
6 | Product Type | Innovation described with respect to a particular product type. | E.g. Laptops. |
5 | Market | Innovation described with respect to the entire market. | - |
6 | Local | Innovation described with respect to the local market. | - |
6 | Global | Innovation described with respect to the global market. | - |
1 | PROPOSAL | Describes the way a person has formalized his ideas (what parts are there, what are missing etc.) What is the completeness of the proposal. | - |
2 | Request | A person has supplied a request for a certain feature. | - |
2 | Solution | The person has supplemented the request with a technical or theoretical solution proposal. | - |
2 | IssueReport | Some idea are not innovative at all but nevertheless they are submitted to the idea management systems. This caregory indicates idea is not innovative at all just reports on a bug/issue/error/failure of an object. | - |
2 | Suggestion | Contrary to request does not state the necessity or a dire need but rather says what would be good in the opinion of a person for the company or organisation to do something. | - |
1 | OBJECT | Characteristics of the item that is the object of the innovation. | - |
2 | History Relationship | Relationship of the innovation with the previous iterations of the objects (or previous innovation proposals for this object). The difference with "Offering placement" is that it looks to compare the change with the past states of the object, not the current). | - |
3 | Evolutionary | Indicates that the innovation for the given product puts it in a state that it has never been before. | - |
3 | Regressive | Indicates that the innovation for the given product was already implemented at some point but has been removed. | - |
2 | Type | Type of object (is it product, service etc.). | - |
3 | Service | Innovation relates to a service. Opposing products, services are: intangible (cannot be physically possessed), inseparable (production cannot be separated from consumption), perishable (cannot store for future use), variable (the quality and consistency differs depending on the person that uses it). | - |
3 | Process | Innovation relates to a process (newelements into an organization’s operations such as input materials, task specifications, work and informationflow mechanisms, and equipment used to produce a product or render a service). | - |
3 | Product | Innovation relates to a product. | - |
4 | Product Line | An innovation is proposed for entire product line. | Inspiron line |
4 | Product Type | Innovation proposed for a specific product type. | Laptops |
4 | Specific Product | Innovation proposed for an individual product. | Dell M1330 |
2 | Offering Placement | Object placement in the current offering / state. | - |
3 | New | The innovation proposes a new product. | New laptop. |
3 | Existing | The innovation proposes innovating an existing product. | New laptop screen. |
4 | Additive | The innovation proposes adding some new element to the object. | Add delete key on the laptop keyboard. |
4 | Subtractive | The innovation proposes removing some element from the object. | Remove dvd drive from a laptop. |
4 | Replacement | The innovation proposes replacing or modifying an existing element of the object. | Replace the current screen with a better quality one. |
2 | Structure | Defines the element in the object structure that the innovation refers to. This should be connected with a domain ontology that identifies specific elements of products etc. | - |
3 | Complete | Innovation related to the entire product. | Dell M1330 |
3 | Element | Innovation relates to a particular element of an object. | Dell M1330 Keyboard |
3 | Characteristic | Innovation relates to particular feature of an object. | Dell M1130 weight |
2 | Relationship | Defines if an object has relationship with other items of offering (reason: adding an innovation into a certain object might impact its relationships with other products and increase/decrease the value of innovation). | - |
3 | Part Of | Object is part of some other object. | - |
3 | Complementary With | Object is complementary with some other object. | - |
A basic example of annotations created for a sample idea with Gi2MO Types taxonomy:
The listing below shows the metadata of the same idea annotated with the use of Gi2MO Idea Ontology and Gi2MO Types taxonomy:
<rdf:Description rdf:about="http://ideas.gi2mo.org/idea/012345/rdf"> <foaf:page ref:resource="http://ideas.gi2mo.org/idea/012345"/> <gi2mo:hasCreator rdf:resource="http://ideas.gi2mo.org/user/Pablo/rdf"/> <gi2mo:content>I would like to propose adding more physical buttons on the 9 inch tablet that is currently available in your offer. When using the tablet I feel that the single 'home' button is not enough for many activities that the tablet is advertised for making the experience bad. For example, for reading ebooks, it would be very useful to have "back" and "forward" buttons for scrolling pages of the book. I own a e-paper reader and I think those buttons could be also used for different activities (for example web browsing or games). </gi2mo:content> <dcterms:title>More buttons on the tablet.</gi2mo:title> <dcterms:created>2011-07-23</gi2mo:created> <gi2mo:hasStatus rdf:resource="http://purl.org/gi2mo/ns#Implemented"/> <gi2mo:hasComment rdf:resource="http://ideas.gi2mo.org/comment/054321/rdf"/> <gi2mo:hasComment rdf:resource="http://ideas.gi2mo.org/comment/054322/rdf"/> <gi2mo:hasCategory ref:resource="http://ideas.gi2mo.org/category/General/rdf"/> <gi2mo:hasCharacteristics rdf:resource="http://purl.org/gi2mo/types/ns#FaultyExperience"/> <gi2mo:hasCharacteristics rdf:resource="http://purl.org/gi2mo/types/ns#ObjectInteraction"/> <gi2mo:hasCharacteristics rdf:resource="http://purl.org/gi2mo/types/ns#CompetitiveObject"/> <gi2mo:hasCharacteristics rdf:resource="http://purl.org/gi2mo/types/ns#OtherPartyOffering"/> <gi2mo:hasCharacteristics rdf:resource="http://purl.org/gi2mo/types/ns#ExistingAudience"/> <gi2mo:hasCharacteristics rdf:resource="http://purl.org/gi2mo/types/ns#AdditiveInnovation"/> <gi2mo:hasCharacteristics rdf:resource="http://purl.org/gi2mo/types/ns#ProductLine"/> <gi2mo:hasCharacteristics rdf:resource="http://purl.org/gi2mo/types/ns#Request"/> <gi2mo:hasCharacteristics rdf:resource="http://purl.org/gi2mo/types/ns#Evolutionary"/> <gi2mo:hasCharacteristics rdf:resource="http://purl.org/gi2mo/types/ns#SpecificProduct"/> <gi2mo:hasCharacteristics rdf:resource="http://purl.org/gi2mo/types/ns#AdditiveChange"/> <gi2mo:hasCharacteristics rdf:resource="http://purl.org/gi2mo/types/ns#ElementChange"/> </rdf:Description>
An alphabetical index of Gi2MO Types terms are given below. All the terms are hyperlinked to their detailed description for quick reference.
Classes: AdditiveChange, AdditiveInnovation, AssociatedObject, Branch, CharacteristicChange, CompetitiveObject, ComplementaryObject, ComplementaryWith, CompleteChange, ComposedOf, CreativityOrigin, CurrentState, Department, Dependence, Duplicates, ElementChange, Encapsulates, Event, Evolutionary, Excludes, ExistingAudience, ExistingObject, FaultyExperience, Follows, GlobalMarket, Group, HistoryRelationship, IdeaContest, Incremental, Innovation, InnovationProposal, IsPartOf, IssueReport, LackOfFeature, LocalMarket, Market, New, NewAudience, NewObject, NewObjectRelease, None, Object, ObjectComparison, ObjectInteraction, ObjectObservation, ObjectOfInnovation, ObjectPurchase, ObjectRelation, ObjectRelease, ObjectUpdateRelease, ObservationType, OfferingPlacement, Organization, OrganizationsProductLine, OrganizationsProductType, Originality, OtherEvent, OtherObject, OtherPartyOffering, OwnOffering, OwnOfferingPlacement, PartOf, PotentialCause, PotentialOportunity, Proceeds, Process, Product, ProductLine, ProductType, PromotionalEvent, ProposalType, Regressive, Relationships, RelativeTo, ReplacementOfElement, ReplacementOfInnovationElement, Request, Service, Solution, SpecificProduct, Structure, StructureUnit, SubtractiveChange, SubtractiveInnovation, Suggestion, SuplementaryObject, TargetAudience, Trigger, Type, UnrelatedObject,
Below see a comprehensive list of all Gi2MO Types terms and their descriptions.
URI: http://purl.org/gi2mo/types/ns#AdditiveChange
AdditiveChange - The innovation proposes adding some new element to the object.
URI: http://purl.org/gi2mo/types/ns#AdditiveInnovation
AdditiveInnovation - Improvement made by adding a new element to a previous proposal.
URI: http://purl.org/gi2mo/types/ns#AssociatedObject
AssociatedObject - Object connected to the trigger of innovation
URI: http://purl.org/gi2mo/types/ns#Branch
Branch - Innovation relative to branch level of the organization (e.g. to use when the organization has already introduced the innovation in a certain branch but in antoher branch its completly unknown).
URI: http://purl.org/gi2mo/types/ns#CharacteristicChange
CharacteristicChange - Innovation relates to particular feature of an object.
URI: http://purl.org/gi2mo/types/ns#CompetitiveObject
CompetitiveObject - If the object that triggered innovation was a competitive solution
URI: http://purl.org/gi2mo/types/ns#ComplementaryObject
ComplementaryObject - If the object that triggered innovation was a complementary solution that works together with the object to fulfil some OTHER function/goal. Removing one of the objects will make it impossible to fulfil this new function.
URI: http://purl.org/gi2mo/types/ns#ComplementaryWith
ComplementaryWith - Object is complementary with some other object.
URI: http://purl.org/gi2mo/types/ns#CompleteChange
CompleteChange - Innovation related to the entire product.
URI: http://purl.org/gi2mo/types/ns#ComposedOf
ComposedOf - Is built of some other objects.
URI: http://purl.org/gi2mo/types/ns#CreativityOrigin
CreativityOrigin - Points to what kind of event triggered the innovation.
URI: http://purl.org/gi2mo/types/ns#CurrentState
CurrentState - Innovation described in relation to the current state of some entity or environment.
URI: http://purl.org/gi2mo/types/ns#Department
Department - Innovation described with respect to department level of the company.
URI: http://purl.org/gi2mo/types/ns#Dependence
Dependence - Innovation is dependent in some way on some other idea.
URI: http://purl.org/gi2mo/types/ns#Duplicates
Duplicates - Innovation that exactly reproduces already existing idea.
URI: http://purl.org/gi2mo/types/ns#ElementChange
ElementChange - Innovation relates to an element of a product (a subelement or a characteristic of an element).
URI: http://purl.org/gi2mo/types/ns#Encapsulates
Ecapsulates - Innovation that reproduces other idea(s) but also adds new value.
URI: http://purl.org/gi2mo/types/ns#Event
Event - The innovation was not triggered by direct innovation with some object but by some event.
URI: http://purl.org/gi2mo/types/ns#Evolutionary
Evolutionary - Indicates that the innovation for the given product puts it in a state that it has never been before.
URI: http://purl.org/gi2mo/types/ns#Excludes
Excludes - Introducing this innovation causes the inability to implement some other innovation.
URI: http://purl.org/gi2mo/types/ns#ExistingAudience
ExistingAudience - Adaptive Innovation. Updates of an existing object to fit the changing needs of current customers.
URI: http://purl.org/gi2mo/types/ns#ExistingObject
ExistingObject - The innovation proposes innovating an existing product.
URI: http://purl.org/gi2mo/types/ns#FaultyExperience
FaultyExperience - A problem/ failure of a product that caused a the creative process.
URI: http://purl.org/gi2mo/types/ns#Follows
Follows - The innovation realization is dependent on implementing some other idea first.
URI: http://purl.org/gi2mo/types/ns#GlobalMarket
Global - Innovation described with respect to the global market.
URI: http://purl.org/gi2mo/types/ns#Group
Group - Innovation described with respect to group level of the company.
URI: http://purl.org/gi2mo/types/ns#HistoryRelationship
HistoryRelationship - Relationship of the innovation with the previous iterations of the objects (or previous innovation proposals for this object). The difference with "Offering placement" is that it looks to compare the change with the past states of the object, not the current).
URI: http://purl.org/gi2mo/types/ns#IdeaContest
IdeaContest - Idea was specifically triggered by idea contests and incentives that come with.
URI: http://purl.org/gi2mo/types/ns#Incremental
Incremental - Improvement for an existing object.
URI: http://purl.org/gi2mo/types/ns#Innovation
Innovation - Characteristics of the proposal and its impact.
URI: http://purl.org/gi2mo/types/ns#InnovationProposal
InnovationProposal - Innovation described in relation to other proposals in the idea management system.
URI: http://purl.org/gi2mo/types/ns#IsPartOf
IsPartOf - Innovation that has been also described in another idea that also shows a bigger scope and discusses other items.
URI: http://purl.org/gi2mo/types/ns#IssueReport
IssueReport - Some idea are not innovative at all but nevertheless they are submitted to the idea management systems. This caregory indicates idea is not innovative at all just reports on a bug/issue/error/failure of an object.
URI: http://purl.org/gi2mo/types/ns#LackOfFeature
LackOfFeature - The innovation was triggered by the fact that object lacked some kind of feature.
URI: http://purl.org/gi2mo/types/ns#LocalMarket
Local - Innovation described with respect to the local market.
URI: http://purl.org/gi2mo/types/ns#Market
Market - Innovation described with respect to the entire market
URI: http://purl.org/gi2mo/types/ns#New
New - Completely new idea/design not based on anything created before.
URI: http://purl.org/gi2mo/types/ns#NewAudience
NewAudience - Shifted Innovation. It relates to shifting the object to fit new market/customer.
URI: http://purl.org/gi2mo/types/ns#NewObject
NewObject - The innovation proposes a new product.
URI: http://purl.org/gi2mo/types/ns#NewObjectRelease
NewObjectRelease - Premiere of a fully new object.
URI: http://purl.org/gi2mo/types/ns#None
None - This is a special instance for idea mgt systems that indicates that idea hold no real innovation at all
URI: http://purl.org/gi2mo/types/ns#Object
Object - Characteristics of the item that is the object of the innovation
URI: http://purl.org/gi2mo/types/ns#ObjectComparison
ObjectComparison - Idea was triggered by comparison of the object of innovation with the some other product/object.
URI: http://purl.org/gi2mo/types/ns#ObjectInteraction
ObjectInteraction - A person interacting with the object and discovering some new need or problem.
URI: http://purl.org/gi2mo/types/ns#ObjectObservation
ObjectObservation - The idea was initiated by observing an object (e.g. due to the desired to purchase it or general interest in the object).
URI: http://purl.org/gi2mo/types/ns#ObjectOfInnovation
ObjectOfInnovation - Innovation was triggered by interaction with the same object that is the topic of idea.
URI: http://purl.org/gi2mo/types/ns#ObjectPurchase
ObjectPurchase - Purchase of the object by the client.
URI: http://purl.org/gi2mo/types/ns#ObjectRelation
ObjectRelation - Defines the relation of the object that triggered the idea and the object that is the topic of the idea.
URI: http://purl.org/gi2mo/types/ns#ObjectRelease
ObjectRelease - Premiere of an object to the market or audience.
URI: http://purl.org/gi2mo/types/ns#ObjectUpdateRelease
ObjectUpdateRelease - Premiere of a new refreshed version of an already existing object.
URI: http://purl.org/gi2mo/types/ns#ObservationType
ObservationType - Type of Trigger. Defines what was the observation of the inventor due to the event that he experienced.
URI: http://purl.org/gi2mo/types/ns#OfferingPlacement
OfferingPlacement - Determines if the other object that is the means of comparison is part of own offering or some other party.
URI: http://purl.org/gi2mo/types/ns#Organization
Organization - Innovation described with respect to organization processes/product/services
URI: http://purl.org/gi2mo/types/ns#OrganizationsProductLine
ProductLine - Innovation originality is described with relation to a particular product line (e.g. to be used when innovation is based on what has been already achieved in some other product line).
URI: http://purl.org/gi2mo/types/ns#OrganizationsProductType
ProductType - Innovation originality described in relation to product type (e.g. to be used when certain products in the organisation already have the innovation but a similar innovation is proposed for a totally new product type).
URI: http://purl.org/gi2mo/types/ns#Originality
Originality - Defines the size/scope of innovation in relation to existing ideas, state or offering.
URI: http://purl.org/gi2mo/types/ns#OtherEvent
OtherEvent - Undefined event related in some way to the object.
URI: http://purl.org/gi2mo/types/ns#OtherObject
OtherObject - The inventor has came up with an idea by comparison of the object with some other product/service/process.
URI: http://purl.org/gi2mo/types/ns#OtherPartyOffering
OtherPartyOffering - Object that triggered the innovative ideas come from offering of some other party.
URI: http://purl.org/gi2mo/types/ns#OwnOffering
OwnOffering - Object that triggered the innovative ideas come from own offering.
URI: http://purl.org/gi2mo/types/ns#OwnOfferingPlacement
OwnOfferingPlacement - Object placement in the current offering / state.
URI: http://purl.org/gi2mo/types/ns#PartOf
PartOf - Object is part of some other object.
URI: http://purl.org/gi2mo/types/ns#PotentialCause
PotentialCause - If a cause of the problem was identified.
URI: http://purl.org/gi2mo/types/ns#PotentialOportunity
PotentialOportunity - The observation was not due to an negative experience but assumption that the object could be better if extended in some way.
URI: http://purl.org/gi2mo/types/ns#Proceeds
Proceeds - After the described innovation is implemented it is going to be possible to unlock other idea.
URI: http://purl.org/gi2mo/types/ns#Process
Process - Innovation relates to a process. Eg. new elements into an organization’s operations such as input materials, task specifications, work and information flow mechanisms, and equipment used to produce a product or render a service.
URI: http://purl.org/gi2mo/types/ns#Product
Product - Innovation relates to a product.
URI: http://purl.org/gi2mo/types/ns#ProductLine
ProductLine - Indicates more specifically that the object of innovation is the entire product line.
URI: http://purl.org/gi2mo/types/ns#ProductType
ProductType - Innovation is targeted for a specific product type.
URI: http://purl.org/gi2mo/types/ns#PromotionalEvent
PromotionalEvent - Event related to the object of innovation.
URI: http://purl.org/gi2mo/types/ns#ProposalType
ProposalType - Describes the way a person has formalized his ideas (what parts are there, what are missing etc.) What the the completeness of the proposal.
URI: http://purl.org/gi2mo/types/ns#Regressive
Regressive - Indicates that the innovation for the given product was already implemented at some point but has been removed.
URI: http://purl.org/gi2mo/types/ns#Relationships
Relationships - Defines if an object has relationship with other items of offering (reason: adding an innovation into a certain object might impact its relationships with other products and increase/decrease the value of innovation).
URI: http://purl.org/gi2mo/types/ns#RelativeTo
RelativeTo - Describes innovation characteristics abstraction level (e.g. if something is innovation with respect to local market or global market)
URI: http://purl.org/gi2mo/types/ns#ReplacementOfElement
ReplacementOfElement - The innovation proposes replacing or modifying an existing element of the object.
URI: http://purl.org/gi2mo/types/ns#ReplacementOfInnovationElement
ReplacementOfInnovationElement - Improvement made just be replacing some element of the previous proposal.
URI: http://purl.org/gi2mo/types/ns#Request
Request - A person has supplied a request for a certain feature.
URI: http://purl.org/gi2mo/types/ns#Service
Service - Innovation relates to a service. Opposing products, services are: intangible (cannot be physically possessed), inseparable (production cannot be separated from consumption), perishable (cannot store for future use), variable (the quality and consistency differs depending on the person that uses it).
URI: http://purl.org/gi2mo/types/ns#Solution
Solution - The person has supplemented the request with a technical or theoretical solution proposal.
URI: http://purl.org/gi2mo/types/ns#SpecificProduct
SpecificProduct - Innovation targeted for a particular product in the offering.
URI: http://purl.org/gi2mo/types/ns#Structure
Structure - Defines the element in the object structure that the innovation refers to. This should be connected with a domain ontology that identifies specific elements of products etc.
URI: http://purl.org/gi2mo/types/ns#StructureUnit
StructureUnit - Innovation relative to a certain organization structure element (e.g. when innovation has been already introduced on some level of the organization administrative unit but not in another where it could be a brand new idea).
URI: http://purl.org/gi2mo/types/ns#SubtractiveChange
SubtractiveChange - The innovation proposes removing some element from the object.
URI: http://purl.org/gi2mo/types/ns#SubtractiveInnovation
SubtractiveInnovation - Improvement made by simplifying other proposal and removing an element from the previous proposal.
URI: http://purl.org/gi2mo/types/ns#Suggestion
Suggestion - Contrary to request does not state the necessity or need observed by the innovator but rather says what would be good in the opinion of a person for the particular company or organization.
URI: http://purl.org/gi2mo/types/ns#SuplementaryObject
SuplementaryObject - Innovation triggered by an object that can be used on top of the existing item and delivers some new value by improving the characteristics of the item however does not redefine the end functionality (removing this object will still make it possible to perform the activity).
URI: http://purl.org/gi2mo/types/ns#TargetAudience
TargetAudience - Defines if the innovation imposes a change in the audience or not (relative to current state of the object of innovation).
URI: http://purl.org/gi2mo/types/ns#Trigger
Trigger - What has caused creation of the idea / what is the inspiration
URI: http://purl.org/gi2mo/types/ns#Type
Type - Type of object (is it product, service etc.).
This documentation has been generated automatically from the most recent ontology specification in OWL using a python script called SpecGen. The style formatting has been inspired on FOAF specification.
Special thanks for support with ontology creation and research to: Prof. Carlos A. Iglesias and members of the GSI Group of DIT department of Universidad Politécnica de Madrid and Dr. Theodore Dalamagas, Nikos Bikakis and Giorgos Giannopoulos from IMIS institute.