Myth #2 “People need money before they will share their ideas”

Motivation is a critical component of any innovation program, particularly in Enterprise Idea Management. There is a belief, misplaced in my experience, that financial rewards are the primary motivation for contributions, and the absence of any financial reward will lead to poor uptake of a program.
Once again, this is one of the Top 10 Myths [...]

Myth #1 “All ideas are good – there is no such thing as a bad idea”

There are several problems with this myth, one of my Top 10 Myths of Idea Management, based on my work at Imaginatik. And it is one of the most common in the field of creativity and innovation.
1) Some ideas are actually bad – they may be illegal, amoral, create liability for the company (for example FDA [...]

Top 10 Myths about Idea Management & Why They Are Wrong

 
I have worked on Idea Management at Imaginatik since 1998 – I was in the room when the first was first coined as a discipline. During this time, I’ve heard many people, including purported experts, describing how idea management is supposed to work, and in many cases I am sorry to say that their ideas [...]

Implementing CSR in a Downturn – Mark Turrell presents to NetImpact membership

NetImpact (http://www.netimpact.org) is an international nonprofit organization whose mission is to inspire, educate, and equip individuals to use the power of business to create a more socially and environmentally sustainable world.
Imaginatik (www.imaginatik.com) is a software company specializing in enterprise crowdsourcing and collaborative innovation and problem solving.
The NetImpact members look for new topics and methods in [...]

Case study time: Cargill’s enterprise-wide deployment of Idea Central

I recently came across a way of sharing PPTs on the internet more productively (www.scribd.com) – thanks to seeing a presentation from an Imaginatik competitor on the same site. I then thought it would be a good idea to share some of the case studies we have had at Imaginatik in our client base. Unlike [...]

Technology without People doesn’t work. People without Technology doesn’t scale

I remember doing my doctorate on collaborative technologies back fifteen years ago, and one quote stuck on my head:
“Technology without people doesn’t work. People without technology doesn’t scale”
Now, I am really struggling to find out whether this was a real quote from someone else, or whether I invented it as part of my Ph.D. dissertation. [...]

Dogma is for the birds

RT @John Hagel “The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance – it is the illusion of knowledge.” Daniel Boorstin
My comment, inspired by John’s Facebook update:
I have been working on ‘dogma’ and the importance of the removal of dogma. I was reading in the Economist this week on animal personalities -  – turns out that [...]

Stop the Presses! Software Vendor to Speak at Tradeshow ;)

Sorry, I had to laugh – I love it when a PR agency gets a little over-active
Still, I am sorry to miss the Spigit presentation hope it goes well for them. Personally, I prefer events like the World Innovation Forum last week in New York. I introduced Paul Saffo as the [...]

Feedback on the History of Idea Management – ah, back in the early days…

Another prompt from a Google alert – I came across an interview with the co-founder of Brightidea.com, Vince Carbone, by blogger Braden Kelley (@innovate on Twitter). I was inspired to write a brief note, really to clarify a point of history as to who / how the term Idea Management was created. It is a [...]