Culture

“Games, this looks fun," exclaimed one of the participants.

Organizations need to continously provide incentives for innovation and not only reward short-time business goals.

So what is an incentive? This is how it is described in Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubners book “Freakonomics”:

‘An incentive is simply a means of urging people to do more of a good thing and less of a bad thing. An incentive is a bullet, a lever, a key: an often tiny object, with astonishing power to change a situation. We all learn to respond to incentives, negative and positive, from the outset of life.’

I have recently been thinking a lot about the greatness of a well-structured Idea Management and  how you combine that with keeping employees curious, confident and committed – engagement is all in the human mind and Idea management is a lot about structure.

As you know all business starts with an idea or a vision of some kind. Once you are in business you need a constant stream of new ideas to carry your operations into the future – ideas that must put into action and become a new platform for the next step…