Auki to Deliver Chaordix(TM) Crowdsourcing Solutions

CALGARY, Alberta, April 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Chaordix today announced its partnership with Auki (formerly Neoden), an innovation and strategy partnership in Grenoble, France that helps organizations gain competitive advantage through advanced strategy, innovation services and consultancy. The new partnership is formed to bring enterprise-class crowdsourcing services and technology to organizations in France and elsewhere in Europe.

Chaordix, a provider of managed crowdsourcing communities, helps organizations apply crowdsourcing to a wide range of needs including products or services innovation, predicting market reaction, enhancing brand relevance, or tapping the problem solving capability of crowds to develop research, technology, policy and product solutions. Chaordix crowdsourcing platform equips organizations to harness crowds including the broad public, employees, consumers and other stakeholders. Participants submit, refine and rank contributions that organizations can then apply to out perform their competition.

"Auki is grounded in seeking out and delivering to our clients leading-edge innovation processes and techniques," said Francois Raffin, founder & CEO of Auki. "Chaordix's crowdsourcing technology and services provide best-of-breed capabilities that organizations of all types - enterprises, government agencies, universities and not-for-profit - can use to gain the benefit of collective wisdom. We have projects already underway with Chaordix and look forward to many more."

"Auki is a wonderful example of the forward-thinking organization with whom we seek to partner," said Shelley Kuipers, Chaordix President & CEO. "They have been at the forefront of innovative thinking and methods for years and we're looking forward to working with them to foster greater and greater participation in open innovation among enterprises and manufacturers."

About Auki

Auki (formerly called Neoden) provides technologies, processes and tools to give its customers new and effective ways of reasoning and acting to create value. Founded in 2004, Auki provides breakthrough methods and processes such as crowdsourcing, Dynamic Design™, Blue Ocean Strategy™, Seeds4Green™, workshops and events to guide their clients through new paths of innovation.

Auki (meaning "open" in the Finnish language) is focused on bringing innovation to the heart of every company, and people at the heart of innovation with the deep conviction that there are always possibilities of new value creation.  For more information, visit http://www.auki.net

About Chaordix

Chaordix specializes in managed crowds for innovation and social research. We enable organizations to engage a crowd via the web to submit, discuss and often refine and rank submissions to discover the most-likely-to-succeed solutions. The crowd may be consumers, employees, partners or other select memberships. The purpose of the crowd is to discover and test market demand and preferences, co-create products and services, solve previously unsolvable technical or R&D problems, and achieve relevant and enduring brands. We provide services to identify, recruit, engage and manage crowds for productive input and deliver the technology that is home to the people that matter most in your market. Find out more about us at http://www.chaordix.com.

    
    
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    Chaordix
    Claudia Moore, VP Marketing
    Phone: 403.703.0029
    Email: [email protected]

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SOURCE Chaordix