Innovators challenged for International Ideas Week
Are you hassled at home, stressed at studies or whacked out at work?
What one idea would make your day better? Which one simple change could put a smile on your face and take some stress out of your day?
This year’s International Ideas Week (commencing May 14), is inviting people across the country to nominate one idea that would make their day easier. Continue reading
Well, the starting point would be to say what we’re not – We are not consultants!
IdeasUK is a not for profit, charity, membership organisation, run by our members for our members.
Our membership ranges from organisations with 250 employees up to 500,000 employees from a wide range of backgrounds and industries.
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Choosing the Right Suggestion Scheme
The Options
There are two main types of suggestion schemes, a centralised or a decentralised scheme. Some organisations operate both models successfully.
Centralised Scheme
In organisations where there is a hierarchical management structure in place a centralised suggestion scheme is often the most appropriate system.
How it operates
Part 2
The last article (part 1) looked at the benefits of an ideas programme and why you should have one within your organisation. This second post looks at the practical steps in getting a good quality scheme up and running.
Support required within a Programme
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!
I sit here writing this post wondering where the past few week have gone, they seem to have gone by really quickly.
With the conference coming up, most of our time has been taken up with the organising of the event. We have very high standards for the conference and this means sometimes burning the midnight oil to make sure things run smoothly.
The past few weeks have seen us carry out some accreditation visits to our members, and I am pleased to anounce that so far this year both the Identity and Passport Agency Continue reading
ideasUK are offering a free eBook introducing the basic ideas on how organisations can initiate a Staff Suggestion Scheme. We have compiled our blog posts on the subject into one easy to read eBook for you to download. Continue reading
I am often asked: what are the biggest issues you face when trying to launch an ideas programme within an organisation?
Having being involved with ideas management for over ten years, the challenges today are the same as they were all those years ago.
It is important right from the start to outline the objectives of the programme and review on a regular basis.
1. Reputation – In my personal experience, suggestion schemes do have a bad reputation within some organisations. This is no fault of the scheme itself, but in the initial set-up of the scheme. When launching a scheme it can be easy to fall in the trap of promising the world but in reality delivering very little. Continue reading
SWOT analysis is a strategic planning method used to evaluate the Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats involved in managing the Suggestion Scheme.
It involves specifying the objectives of the programme and identifying the internal and external factors that are favourable and unfavourable to achieve that objective.
The technique is credited to Albert Humphrey, who led a convention at Stanford University in the 1960s and 1970s using data from Fortune 500 companies. Continue reading
