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Here's an idea: Bin the Suggestion Box: Britain may be one of Europe's innovation hotspots. But its businesses are still paying lip-service to innovation as an organisational strategy, according to Adobe's "Unleashing Innovation" survey. The vast majority of employers and employees it surveyed acknowledge innovation's importance to their business, but only 16 per cent...; Tags: Innovation, Idea, Feedback System, Leadership, Strategy, Management, BNET UK Staff; Blog posts 2008-05-02
How to Nurture ideas: The lifeblood of innovation is fresh perception and new ideas. How do we nurture new ideas into potential solutions? As Brian Libby's article explains, you need money, time, process, people and perseverance. I would like to add one more quality to the list --- attitude. ...; Tags: Idea, Team Management, Leadership, Strategy, Management, Jennifer Goddard; Blog posts 2008-04-09
How They Did It: Seven Intrapreneur Success Stories: Seven successful intrapreneurs reveal what it took to launch new ventures at Kodak, Toyota, Yahoo, and other major companies. .logoimg { float:right; border:1px solid #eee; padding:4px; background:#fff;} Kodak Intrapreneur:...; Tags: Printers, Marketing research, Georgia Flight, Eastman Kodak Co., inkjet printer, cartridge, printer, Toyota Motor Corp., brand, marketing communication, team, radio, Internet radio, marketing, printing, sales, photograph, stock, industry, Internet; Articles 2008-04-10
Learn How To Ask For Referrals -- And Grow Your Business: Marketing by getting referrals is not only simple, it's wonderfully cheap. The idea is to find new customers just by asking peers, associates and existing customers to recommend likely prospects for you to target. Few business owners actually ask for referrals. Fewer still ask in the right way at the...; Tags: Marketing research, Microsoft Corp., referral, marketing strategy, marketing; White papers
Extreme ERP Makeover: Why single-instance ERP is now feasible, what business drivers should factor into the decision and how companies are determining their integration strategies. The grand ERP vision of one application and one database for everything the company does may finally be achievable. The next step, after attaining ERP, is to expand...; Tags: Enterprise resource planning (ERP), Enterprise software, International Data Group, ERP, data source, supply chain, vision, CRM, database; White papers

Unbalanced Scorecards: The IT industry is fast moving, and is full of people in their twenties and thirties. So perhaps it is not surprising that it does not learn well from past mistakes. Those rather longer in the tooth can permit themselves a wry smile as the industry shows a new fad...; Tags: Balanced Scorecard, sales, industry; White papers
Intercom Phones and Stress: Intercom phone systems are stress reducers since at what time a person is busy, he can push a button and talk. The idea is handy, since sitting, holding a handset busies the hands, thus the person cannot type as easy. The author has no problem talking, thinking and typing, but...; Tags: Cellular phones, handset, phone; White papers
HBR ideaCast: Keep Your ideas to Yourself: Great ideas add value to discussion, but when they come from managers, Marshall Goldsmith says, they can add too much value -- stifling the creativity and enthusiasm of the very people you need to execute the idea. Before you pitch your ideas -- or your improvements on an employee's ideas...; Tags: Team management, BNET staff, Marshall Goldsmith, HBR IdeaCast, Marshall; Blog posts 2008-03-13
Cultivate New ideas: Ideas are a precious resource, but they’re hard to nurture and easy to kill. Here’s how to help them — and your company — prosper.Wondering why your company hasn’t come up with any brilliant new ideas lately? Maybe you haven’t properly laid the groundwork. From the first inkling all the...; Tags: Idea, Productivity, Andrew Mager; Articles 2008-02-27
How to Get Showers of ideas: I lunched today with a well-known quantum physicist, who mentioned that about half his ideas, and most of his best ones, happen in the shower.Â I asked him whether he knew why. Being a physicist, he has developed a model to explain why. It goes, loosely, as...; Tags: Michael Fitzgerald, shower; Blog posts 2008-03-13
The Secret to Selling Your Big idea: You've got a brainstorm. It's bold, it's brilliant — and it might even make you rich. Learn how the pros transform great insights into big career breakthroughs.Every great product or service started out as just a sparkle in someone's eye. Whether you want to invent the next must-have technology or...; Tags: Idea, Game Players, Games, Professional Development, Corporate Communications, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Career, Marketing, Andrew Mager; Articles 2008-02-19
HBR ideaCast: Where Does Strategic Innovation Come From?: By the time you hear about a groundbreaking idea, your competition has heard about it too â€” and may even be using it. George Stalk describes how managers can collect faint ideas, watch trends before they hit, and gather the necessary information to decide which ideas will give your business...; Tags: Strategy, BNET staff, George Stalk, HBR IdeaCast; Blog posts 2008-02-13
Google Boss Schmidt Takes Reins of Digital Brain Trust: In the past few years, prominent Googlers have taken team building to a whole new level. First it was Messieurs Brin, Page and Kordestani's involvement in the X Prize Foundation, now Google CEO Eric Schmidt has taken over the chairmanship of the New America Foundation, a non-partisan think-tank that hopes...; Tags: Team management, WIRELESS, Wi-Fi, Jeff Palfini, New America Foundation, team, Google Inc.; Blog posts 2008-02-07
How to Manage Overachievers: Overachievers are not like other employees. You need to lead them differently if you want to take advantage of all they have to offer. Here’s how to keep them happy and productive. Identify the Overachiever ...; Tags: Recruitment & Selection, Laurie Sullivan, job, team, director, venture capital, movie, window, security; Articles 2007-11-26
Analyzing Your Time: We seldom realize how long things are really going to take. Certainly, we have a general idea but this is usually much less time than we will actually spend. We tend to exaggerate how quickly we can finish something. We simply don't have a real concept of the time we...; Tags: Concept, Idea, Positive Imaging; White papers 2007-12-01
How To Build Bernd Schmitt's Trojan Horse: Despite my misgivings about the examples he chose to introduce the concept of Big Think ideas, Bernd Schmitt does in fact seem to have created useful templates for organizations to come up with ideas that could be big. He details five tools for creating big ideas: ...; Tags: Spyware, adware & malware, Spyware, Michael Fitzgerald, Bernd Schmitt, Big Think, trojan horse; Blog posts 2007-12-14
New "Brainstorming" Principles: This paper presents six new principles emerging from four decades of academic and industry research on the generation of high-quality creative ideas by "Brainstorming". The principles are: brainstorming instructions are essential and should emphasize, paradoxically, number and not quality of ideas; a specific, difficult target should be set for the...; Tags: University of New South Wales, industry; White papers 2008-01-18
How To Really Influence People: Who matters more: the influencer or the people they influence?Â The answer seems obvious.Â But the Relationship Economics blog posted an item, Market to the Influenced! that argued the influencers are not so important as they might seem. Getting enough people sufficiently influenced to spread the word is often moreÂ ...; Tags: Michael Fitzgerald, influencer, Dubious Achievement, Esquire; Blog posts 2008-01-24
HBR ideaCast: Unleash Your Hidden Assets: Harvard Business School Press editor Melinda Merino is joined by Bain & Company's Chris Zook to discuss some of the ideas from his new book, "Unstoppable: Finding Hidden Assets to Renew the Core and Fuel Profitable Growth." In the near future, Zook says, the only way for the vast majority...; Tags: BNET staff, Chris Zook, Hidden Assets, HBR IdeaCast; Blog posts 2008-01-02
A Chorus of Critics Tells Marketers: Stop Targeting 'Influencials': There was no shortage of brands employing viral marketing in 2007 (here are the top 1o viral videos of the year). Many of these campaigns are genuinely funny, but the question remains, what's the best way to spread a viral campaign as widely as possible? Some hold to the idea...; Tags: Social networking, Sales strategy, Jessica Stillman; Blog posts 2008-01-11