@article{westerski_roadcommunity_2011_1, author = "Westerski, Adam and Iglesias, Carlos A. and Tadhg Nagle", abstract = "This paper introduces a new emerging software component, the idea management system, which helps to gather, organise, select and manage the innovative ideas provided by the communities gathered around organisations or enterprises. We define the notion of the idea life cycle, which provides a framework for characterising tools and techniques that drive the evolution of community submitted data inside idea management systems. Furthermore, we show the dependencies between the community-created information and the enterprise processes that are a result of using idea management systems and point out the possible benefits.", awards = "CiteScore Rank: 56/181; SNIP: 0.505; SJR: 0.355", comments = "SJR 2011 Q3 0.352, Scopus 2011 Q3 1.1", doi = "10.1504/IJWBC.2011.042993", issn = "1477-8394", journal = "International Journal of Web Based Communities", number = "4", pages = "493 - 506", title = "{T}he {R}oad from {C}ommunity {I}deas to {O}rganisational {I}nnovation: {A} {L}ife {C}ycle {S}urvey of {I}dea {M}anagement {S}ystems", url = "http://www.inderscience.com/info/inarticle.php?artid=42993", volume = "7", year = "2011", }