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Unleashing the corporate creativity

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Having idea schemes in businesses seems intuitively to make sense. Establish a simple mechanism whereby employees can submit ideas that will benefit the business, and usually with some kind of reward or merit scheme for those ideas which are implemented. Unfortunately, very few idea schemes have been successful and many companies no longer run them – which may seem peculiar for something which appears to make good business sense.

You’ve seen the importance of asking Killer Questions that are of value to the business, however, the problem with idea schemes is this – the ideas submitted are answers to ...

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