Bosses should bank bright ideas
Fri 15 Feb 2008
Managers have been encouraged to keep their employees' creative ideas in an initiative soon to be launched. National Ideas Week will run in March and feature brainstorming breakfasts, office think-tanks and open ideas banks. Organised by Ideas UK, the initiative will also give workers and managers a chance to re-launch or revitalise existing schemes, which is "essential in order to maintain the momentum and ensure we are achieving targets", the company has claimed. Its objectives are to increase creativity and innovation, understand the potential of an untapped resource of ideas and encourage organisations to turn suggestions into innovations. Anthony Denatale, operations manager at Ideas UK told onrec.com: "National Ideas Week is a chance for employers to explore practical ways of turning bright ideas into better business." Its recent survey found that by implementing suggestion schemes more than £32 million was saved by businesses in 2007.
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