[Imagination Club] Challege: more participation

[Guy Treloar]

Hi Jeff, 
        its an interesting point , and one mirrored in our organisation in 
Australia and New Zealand - where in January this year we instigated 
" idea sessions "every week  for a group of 24 or so sales, technical, and 
marketing group, focussing on improvements, new products, applications 
markets etc. for our water based polymers.

10 Months later we are scratching for significant ideas , and 
participation has waned, and people not finding enough time to do thorough 
research and true idea generation, and getting caught up in normal day to 
day job function "stuff ".

My suggestion for my group is to move out timing - to enable all the above 
and get better quality output- with small teams allocated to working on 
realisation of the groups voted/selected ideas......will this work? don't 
know yet .

So my offering is to have a monthly imagination club idea selected from a 
list of submissions and voted for Imagination Club attention , with 
responses on a monthly basis.

Often submitted ideas seed and promote 2nd and 3rd generation ideas which 
can be extremely valuable- is there a way of facilitating and recording 
this for the group- so you have a "tree" of ideas and progression history 
that we can refer to at any time - this might assist getting our minds 
into genuine "ideation mode" ?

regards , Guy




"Jeffrey Baumgartner" <jeffreyb at jpb.com> 
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I have a problem! The level of participation in the 
imagination club has fallen over the past few weeks, even 
though membership has increased slowly.

A month ago, a challenge would have resulted in at least a 
half dozen ideas from a half dozen people. Now, most 
challenges get just one or two responses.

So, today's challenge is simple: how can I encourage you 
and the other 100 or so members to participate more in the 
imagination club?

Jeffrey Baumgartner
Your fearless moderator
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Helping businesses innovate better
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