[Imagination Club] Creative Challenges for Economic Bad Times

[Bright]

>From your example, I would start a game called, "Let's Pretend"

Let's pretend what, you say.  Let's pretend there is no electricty
and we have to continue to do our jobs.  How can we do our jobs
if we have no electricity?  If there are ways to continue, 
people will surely come up with ideas because necessity is the
mother of invention, and so is cost cutting.

Remember in the USA, many of our inventions come from wartime
necessities or space travel innovations from neccesities.

Good challenge!


On Wed, 12 Mar 2008 15:21:05 +0100
"Jeffrey Baumgartner" <jeffreyb at jpb.com> wrote:

> Hello, Creative thinker!!! 
> 
> YOU CHALLENGE:
> 
> What questions/challenges might managers put to their 
> employees in order to solicit creative cost cutting ideas?
> 
> EXAMPLES: 
> 
> 1) "In what ways might we reduce our electricity 
> consumption?" 
> 
> 2) "How might we cut costs in the delivery of products from 
> our factories to retailers?"
> 
> 
> BACKGROUND:
> 
> We tend to think of business innovation as being about 
> exciting new products, new inventions and that kind of 
> thing. But another important aspect of business innovation 
> is improving the efficiency of internal processes, 
> production methods, logistics and consumption in order to 
> reduce costs. 
> 
> Cutting costs is always important for businesses. But in an 
> economic slow-down or recession, keeping costs down becomes 
> critical. 
> 
> 
> NOTE: 
> 
> I may put your best challenges/questions on our web site 
> (with credit to you, of course) as advice for business 
> managers. If I use your challenge, I will let you know. 
> 
> I look forward to your challenge suggestions!
> 
> Jeffrey Baumgartner
> Your Fearless Moderator
> --
> jpb.com
> Think more creatively ~ innovate more profitably
> http://www.jpb.com | Tel: +32 2 305 6591
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> Imagination Club is an e-mail based discussion forum for playing with ideas.
> 
> You can read the Imagination Club archives at http://davie.textdrive.com/pipermail/imagine/
> 
> To unsubscribe,  send an e-mail to imagine-request at lists.supertrade.com with unsubscribe in the message subject; or go to http://lists.supertrade.com/mailman/listinfo/imagine
> 
> For more information, visit http://www.jpb.com/imagination/