The MindTrek LaunchPad competition awards innovative new Finnish digital media products and the people behind it, who have the urge to make it big. The prize sum is 20 000 € which can be divided between two or three competitors. MindTrek brings together entrepreneurs, researchers and practitioners from diverse disciplines that are involved in the development of media in various fields.
Intunex decided to take part in the MindTrek 2010 Launchpad competition with our xTune product. If xTune is selected for the final, we can send two representatives to pitch and attend the conference (Oct 7-8).
Here is our application. Any helpful comments are highly appreciated!
How to find the right expertise and solve problems more quickly?
Typical information workers spend up to 25% of their day searching for the right information to complete a given task. Butler Group (2006) reports up to 10% of staff costs are lost, because employees can´t find the right information to do their jobs. When solving difficult problems finding the right information is not enough – it takes too much time to adopt the information if the person doesn’t have enough expertise on the subject. Often this leads to bad decisions and unsolved problems.
By far the best and fastest way to solve difficult problems is to get help from people who are experts on the subject. However, expertise is scattered all around across organizations. It is next to impossible to find and get help from experts if they are in another part of organization and you don’t know them.
If each employee spends 5 hours a week to find information and solve a problem they can’t handle alone, in a company of 1.000 people this means 20.000 lost working hours every month – and lot of bad decisions. Let’s say we could cut this by half to 2.5 hours by helping people to get help from right experts. When the cost of one hour is 50 euros, the company would save 50.000 euros a month and 600.000 euros every year. Not to mention the increased productivity that comes out of fast and smart problem solving.
xTune – the easiest way to get help from an expert within an organization
xTune is a unique enterprise social software. It makes it easy to get help from experts beyond organizational boundaries so that people can innovate and solve problems more effectively.
How does it work?
- Tell what kind of help you need.
- xTune finds the experts who can help you.
- xTune informs you when someone needs your expertise.
Intunex Oy
Intunex is a Finnish startup company developing enterprise social software that helps people solve problems and collaborate beyond organizational boundaries. Intunex is founded in 2008, Helsinki, Finland and locating at Aalto University Start-Up Center. Our pilot customers include a big telecommunications company and Futurice Oy – which is one of the Europe’s fastest growing tech companies. Intunex has also been granted a notable TEKES funding for its product development. Intunex core team consists of three partners with broad experience on both information technology and human resource management.