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If you get chance take a look at Springwise. It has a network of 8000 ‘spotters’ who are on the look out for innovative business initiatives. Here are some recent ones on the site. Take a look and see if it gives you some great ideas. Online exchange for parking spaces Peasy.com is an [...]  Adapting ideas that have worked in one environment and using them in another is one of the most successful of innovation techniques. Let’s look at some examples. In 1916 a young American scientist and inventor called Clarence Birdseye went to Canada as a fur trader. He noticed [...] We carried out a survey over the internet in 2006 and early 2007 to assess attitudes towards receptiveness to new ideas within organizations. There were 203 respondents of whom 82% were from private sector companies and 18% from the public sector. The results indicate that most people consider themselves to be much more receptive to [...] If you would like a quick assessment of the creativity and innovation capability of your organisation then please try this quick questionnaire. The average score from past respondents is 22. Please let me know how you score and any comments. It is designed for organisations that employ more than a just a few people. So [...] I was at a business breakfast today organised by Editorial Intelligence, NESTA, Friends Provident and Reuters. The topic was ‘Where is Britain’s innovative edge?’ There were some lively contributors and one of the questions that arose was – what role does the government have to play in encouraging innovation and how well is it doing? [...] |
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