Top 10 innovation and ideas management internet links – weekly round-up 27th January

It has been a while, but we are back with our infamous top 10 list of things that have caught our interest and have been reading this week! As usual, in no particular order

  1. Excellent article about ideas generation
  2. Some great links within this piece about cutting bureaucracy in business
  3. What innovation can do for your life
  4. Linking ideas schemes with Six Sigma
  5. Two ways to think about innovation
  6. Two Great Innovation Misquotes – an interesting site, packed with lots of good information.
  7. How banks innovate – I read this article as we deal with a number of financial institutions and I am always being told that they cannot be innovative as they are bound by too much regulation. This piece shows otherwise!
  8. To inspire: get a muse. Another good article that looks at what inspires innovation.
  9. What is the Definition of Innovation? Some good points raised here, even if they are only trying to sell you their book – ahem.
  10. And the final link is not really work related, I am a cat person and I just love the videos on YouTube of Simon’s Cat, so I thought I would share one of my favourites.

Well that’s the top 10 links for the week, hope you enjoy reading them as much as I did. Have a great weekend folks!

Anthony

If you feel I’ve missed any great articles, blogs, links etc, please share them in the comments section below.

 

Can Social Media enhance the Ideas Scheme? – Workshop Session Friday 20th January 2012 – Part Two

James Shewry HSBCCarrying on from Monday’s blog post, we continue the summary of the workshop event based on Social Media and the Ideas Scheme. Following Chris Bolton’s presentation, James Shewry of HSBC then gave an overview of their Ideas Scheme and highlighted the successes delivered since they moved to a social media platform in 2011. This highly informative presentation explained the benefits of allowing employees to collaborate and comment on ideas raised and demonstrated how implemented ideas had increased. Continue reading

Can Social Media enhance the Ideas Scheme? – Workshop Session Friday 20th January 2012 – Part One

Last Friday, HSBC and ideasUK hosted a networking meeting at the HSBC headquarters in Canary Wharf, looking at the topic of Social Media and the Ideas Programme. Social Media and Ideas Schemes

The event was well supported by those from both the public and private sector and a great interactive session ensued. Continue reading

Guest Post – Rewards and Recognition within a Suggestion Scheme

Today’s guest post is written by Tom Dupre

Let’s begin at the end. I always advise people who are looking to start a suggestion process, or who are revitalizing/redesigning a current program, to address the topic of recognition after they have designed the other areas. Rewards should be considered within the broader context of the process and therefore deferred until the end when the broader context has been determined. That said, let us proceed to discuss the role that Rewards and Recognition (R&R) plays in employee involvement schemes and some key elements of this critical component. Continue reading

ideasUK free Networking Event – 20th January 2012, London – All Welcome

ideasUK are hosting our first networking event of 2012. The theme will be:

Can Social Media enhance Ideas Schemes?

Everyone is welcome to attend including non members of ideasUK to this free event, but places are limited. For more information and to book your place, please email us info@ideasuk.com

Friday 20 January 2012

London, E14

10am – 3pm Continue reading

2011 in review

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog.

Here’s an excerpt:

A New York City subway train holds 1,200 people. This blog was viewed about 4,800 times in 2011. If it were a NYC subway train, it would take about 4 trips to carry that many people.

Click here to see the complete report.

Happy Christmas

Everyone at ideasUK would like to wish you a very Merry Christmas and a prosperous New Year.

We will be back in the 2012 bigger and better!

ideasUK Conference 2011 Award Winners – Idea of the Year Trophy

Idea of the Year Trophy

The idea considered to be the best of all shortlisted entries
Winner

Adrian Robins

BUPA

ideasUK Conference 2011 Idea of the Year 2011 Trohpy WinnerSponsored by ideasUK

ideasUK Conference 2011 Award Winners – Organisational Trophy

Organisational Trophy

Ideas which improve the way in which work is planned and implemented

Winners

Jim Hannah, Gareth Hughs

MAGNOX NORTH

ideasUK Conference 2011 Organisational AwardSponsored by

Bupa

ideasUK Conference 2011 Award Winners – Customer Services Trophy

Customer Services Trophy

Ideas for improving services to customers

Winners

Sofia Rasoli, Stuart Kendall

SIEMENS ENERGY

ideasUK Conference 2011 Customer Service AwardSponsored by

Boots