100 Ways to get Ideas

Ideas are the seedcorn of innovation. We need a large supply of them. Are you sometimes stuck for ideas? Here is an interesting blog by Steve Aitchison in which he gives 100 ways to generate ideas for articles for a blog. The principles work for almost any other requirement to generate ideas. So the next [...]

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Innovators trust their intuition

Richard Dennis

MBA students are taught to treat business in a rational, scientific way. They analyse situations, develop financial models, critically examine management decisions and logically examine different scenarios. When they emerge from the hallowed halls of academia they are often surprised to find that businesses run much less on logic and much more on [...]

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Diehards die hard

Some people are so set in their ways that they resist innovative ideas even when their benefits are demonstrable.

At the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City Dick Fosbury amazed the audience when he did something revolutionary - he went over backwards. The traditional way of jumping was to use the straddle.  Fosbury won the gold medal [...]

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Next Meeting of the Innovation Unit

Innovation in a competitive environment – BQF seminar kindly hosted by Glaxo Smith Kline at their Weybridge offices on 3 Nov.  Non-members are welcome http://ping.fm/O2Nt6   The speakers are from the consumer products division of GSK and include:

Simon Gunson, VP, New Product Development and Site Director

Alexis Roberts-Macintosh, VP, Aquafresh Future Team R&D

Peter Harding, VP,  Aquafresh [...]

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