Definition of an Idea Management System.

An idea management system is simply defined as a wholistic methodology for collecting, filtering, and implementing ideas. Traditionally, these systems were paper based and required great manual effort to manage. In the 1990s organizations began using spreadsheets and databases to help record and catalog ideas, however these early "digital"...

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Many heads are better than one.

I came across this article on crowdsourcing, and how the old saying “two heads are better than one” is as true as ever. “The more heads, the better” is probably the modern day version of this. In the past, and innovation experts will agree, too many heads created too much useless information and idea clutter (aka – noise), so limiting brainstorming...

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The Best Engineers (Your innovation goldmine)

It is sometimes said that your best engineers are the workers running your production lines every day. Most of these engineers don’t have engineering degrees or for that matter college degrees, but they can probably solve some of the biggest problems facing your organization. If not asked, the knowledge of these ‘engineers’ will be invisible and...

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