The difficulty with trying to create purely formal processes for innovation is that you can lose the clichéd “water cooler” effect of accidental generation of ideas through chance discussions, meetings and exchanges of information. However, relying purely on your personnel to generate enough good new ideas is near suicidal for a business.   more »

Creating relaxed, informal areas for people to think and co-operate can have a dramatic effect on the quality and quantity of innovation in an organisation.    more »

If you want people to talk, you have to give them a fighting chance by putting them in relative proximity....There was some work done that showed that the probability of communication between two individuals was significantly lower if they were in different groups and decayed rapidly based on physical distance   more »

People are cynical animals. More so perhaps in Europe than in the United States. When someone starts in a new role, they will not just take what they are told about fresh starts, new ways or working or anything at face value. They probably don’t believe it’s going to happen and wait to pounce on the first outward sign that the person involved is not actually doing as they said they will do.   more »