2 Posts found for Source: Finding Your Company's Great Thinkers

Your first challenge is to attract the “ideators,” the people who traditionally come up with the biggest ideas, regardless of the topic.

Great ideators tend to be a bit competitive. Tap into that. Post challenges—through your intranet, bulletin board, or e-mail system—on behalf of clients, and offer prizes for anyone who can come up with the answer within a set period of time. Competitive, inventive people … [ Read more ]

Author: G. Michael Maddock | Source: Finding Your Company’s Great Thinkers | Original Publication: BusinessWeek | Subjects: Management, Organizational Behavior

Want a simple way to foster a culture of innovation and find out who has hidden strengths? Allow people to draw on the walls.

One thing that works particularly well for our firm when we are looking for new insights, or ways to tweak a product or service offering, is to paper the walls of a room with flip chart sheets. We write thought-starters and … [ Read more ]

Author: G. Michael Maddock | Source: Finding Your Company’s Great Thinkers | Original Publication: BusinessWeek | Subject: Innovation