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Follow on Google News | Ideas to Boost your Innovation ProcessBy: www.innovbook.com I spoke at the annual conference of Ideas UK (http://ideasuk.org/) Organize Including training in the suggestions scheme in their new employee induction day. Setting an expectation that everyone has two jobs – the one they were hired for and suggesting improvements anywhere in the business. Having campaigns where there is a different theme each month. Turning winners (people who had had their ideas approved) into evangelists who spoke about the scheme at department meetings. Telling people exactly what kinds of ideas were needed and in what areas. Encouraging submitters to add photos (e.g. of prototypes) to their suggestions. Publicize success in all sorts of ways. Encouraging team submissions (they prove better thought out and more likely to be approved) Allowing anyone to comment on or add a star rating to an idea (just like tripadvisor or amazon). Refreshing the scheme with new promotions, posters or ideas in order to keep it in people’s attention. Allowing anonymous suggestions Allowing suggestions to bypass the line manager. Incentivize Giving a small reward (e.g. $2!) for any suggestion made. Giving a larger reward for ideas implemented – sometimes a proportion of the savings up to a limit. It was generally agreed that big rewards were not needed and that recognition was more important than money. Setting a target (e.g. 4 suggestions per year) for all employees and including the results in the annual appraisal. Publishing competitive league tables for running totals of suggestions for different regions. Establishing an annual ‘Club of Thinkers’ for the people who made the most suggestions. The members of this club received extra training in creativity and met the senior executive team for lunch. Incentivize submissions with prize draws. In December rewarding recently implemented ideas with Christmas trees. Rewarding heads of department for any approved ideas that originated in their department. Evaluating Incentivize idea evaluators with points (and rewards) for ideas reviewed on time and ideas implemented. Encouraging evaluators to contact suggestors to discuss the suggestion. Setting targets for evaluators to evaluate ideas (e.g. 10 days or less) Allowing evaluators to store an idea in an ‘icebox’ if there are reasons why it is not a good idea now but might be later. It is clear that there are many different approaches to ideas schemes and you need to find one that suits your corporate culture and objectives. There are also many different software packages available to run the schemes. Innovbook offers a complete innovation solution at a competitive price. Find out more here (http://www.innovbook.com/ End
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