[Imagination Club] Challenge: How to maketheimagination club better

Tue Aug 9 20:18:56 GMT 2005

Hello Everyone!

My name is Jack and I work for a pharmaceuticals company in beautiful down town Greensboro, NC after retiring from a Fortune 50 consumers products giant.  I work 4 days a week and love what I do -- get involved with international logistics, forecasting, etc.  Guess you could say I am semi-retired.  I have always enjoyed by career -- feel like I never worked a day in my life!

Creativity has always been a very strong interest of mine down through the years.  I would like to mention a couple of items to the group for comments.  Here goes...

1.  I have had several instances of submitting ideas over the years to senior managers and would often get a response indicating very little interest.  After I retired from a Fortune 50 consumers products company, several of these ideas started showing up in the market place!!!!

Would like to get some discussion on successfully promoting and selling ideas internally in your company and how others have handled this situation, what their successes and failures have been and resulting key learnings.  Presenting new ideas is complex and depends on many factors including timing!  Perhaps this group can come up with a model that would be helpful to all.

2.  Over the years I have developed an effective creative tool that runs on Excel that has a very broad application as well as it can be tailored to specific situations.  It has been very productive and useful to me.  I am not sure what to do with it but feel it could help others.
Any comments or interest?

Jack

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-----Original Message-----
From: imagine-bounces at lists.supertrade.com
[mailto:imagine-bounces at lists.supertrade.com]On Behalf Of David
Onyemaobim
Sent: Monday, August 08, 2005 10:38 AM
To: 'Imagination Club'; 'John Tunney'
Subject: RE: [Imagination Club] Challenge: How to maketheimagination
clubbetter

Excellent forethought, Jeffrey. I like the simplicity and functionality of
the "imagination archive".

-----Original Message-----
From: imagine-bounces at lists.supertrade.com
[mailto:imagine-bounces at lists.supertrade.com] On Behalf Of Jeffrey
Baumgartner
Sent: Monday, August 08, 2005 9:15 AM
To: John Tunney; Imagination Club
Subject: RE: [Imagination Club] Challenge: How to make theimagination
clubbetter

Great ideas, John.

By the way, there is an archives of all posts at 
http://davie.textdrive.com/pipermail/imagine/

Jeffrey Baumgartner

On 8 Aug 2005 at 14:01, John Tunney wrote:

> You will be aware that the unconscious mind can continue to
> work on a creative challenge/problem after you've
> 'forgotten' about it. Some of the past creative challenges
> could be selected and a refresher email could be sent to ask
> contributors if they have thought of any more ideas on the
> subject. Also perhaps every six months an email could be
> compiled on past subjects (and suggestions) to ask members
> if any new ideas come to light.
> 
> A blog could be set up (or web page) that lists all creative
> challenges and ideas as they occur. This would be a good way
> to record our ideas. For me, I would prefer this to be a
> record only, as I like the way current contributions are
> distributed by email.
> 
> A kind of reading group could be set up where a book on
> creativity (such as the De Bono or Buzan output) could be
> chosen (every two months, say) and members would be able to
> give their thoughts on the book.
> 
> Along similar lines, some creative challenges could be set
> where members are encouraged to solve/think about problems
> using one creativity technique alone (there is an
> alphabetical list of techniques at Mycoted.com) One
> challenge could be based on random stimulation (such as the
> random word) and the next on attribute listing etc.
> 
> John
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> From: "Jeffrey Baumgartner" <jeffreyb at jpb.com>
> Reply-To: Imagination Club <imagine at lists.supertrade.com>
> To: imagination Club <imagine at lists.supertrade.com> Subject:
> [Imagination Club] Challenge: How to make the imagination
> clubbetter Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2005 14:38:25 +0200
> 
> Happy Monday:
> 
> Today, let's focus our creative energy on how to make the
> Imagination Club better value. I have a few ideas which I
> shared with you last week, but I'd like yours too. After
> all, this is your forum.
> 
> Bear in mind...
> 
> 1) The main aim of the imagination club is that it is a
> place to stretch your imagination and share creative ideas
> with other imaginative people.
> 
> 2) The imagination club generates no income (nor is it
> meant to do so), hence there is virtually no budget for
> investing in tools, software, marketing, etc.
> 
> The best ideas will, of course, be implemented!
> 
> Jeffrey Baumgartner
> Your Fearless Moderator
> --
> Helping businesses innovate better
> www.jpb.com | Tel: +32 2 251 7725 | GSM +32 478 549 428
> 
> 
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