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Our ideas get lost. What can we do? - Business news, business advice and information for Australian SMEs SmartCompany

Our ideas get lost. What can we do?
Author: Julia Bickerstaff on 7 October 2009

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We try to be innovative but our ideas get lost in emails and ad-hoc conversations, what can we do?

It's funny how it's the little things that derail the big opportunities.

A CEO was telling me how he found it very disappointing that his people rarely came up with any ideas for the business. He wasn't lamenting the lack of good ideas; he was talking about the lack of any ideas.

A few days later I was talking with some of his team and, completely unprompted, they told me how frustrated they were because they had generated masses of ideas for the business but none of them ever seemed to go anywhere.

I could have been talking to two completely different businesses!

As I dug a little deeper the team started making a few comments like:.....

And that brings us neatly on to action. Employees will only use the idea-home if they trust that ideas submitted to it will be reviewed. A neat way to make this happen is to select a small group of people - an "idea team" - to review the ideas each week/month and work out next steps.

Read full article: http://www.smartcompany.com.au/profitable-growth/20091007-our-ideas-get-lost-what-can-we-do.html
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http://dreamlearndobecome.blogspot.com This posting was made my Jim Jacobs, President & CEO of Jacobs Executive Advisors. Jim also serves as Leader of Jacobs Advisors' Insurance Practice.