Managers and supervisors can tend to generalize issues and gloss over certain details, while employees who work directly with what is causing problem know exactly what is wrong and what should be done about it. Their knowledge of problem is direct and intimate, and they can provide accurate solutions. They know things by experience, not by theory.

The Power of Small Ideas

Big ideas are always more attractive – they are splashier, grander, always more promising. Managers are therefore more likely to weed out “small” ideas and go for really big ones, “home runs” – those that could help generate millions of dollars in revenue or topple competition, instantly. But when it comes to ideas, small does not always mean ineffective or weak. In fact, in organizations it is often smarter to focus on small ideas rather than on big ones.

Idea Management

As simple as it sounds, getting and using employee ideas to improve your organization’s performance entails a lot of planning, preparation and hard work. Two crucial issues that you would have to deal with are:

• How can employees be encouraged or motivated to come up with so many ideas?

• Who has time to deal with all of them?

After all, once ideas start pouring in, they would each have to be evaluated, and then implemented. These are non-value adding tasks that can take up all of your valuable time. The only way you can effectively manage employee ideas is by setting up a good idea system, one that will make process, which can become messy, organized and productive.

Profound Change

By encouraging free flow of ideas, you will have opportunity to bring about a profound transformation within your organization, one that could not only boost its overall performance, but would also liberate people who work within it.

Idea systems have power to change very culture of an organization, by bringing about more trust, respect, openness, commitment and harmony among its people.

When employees see that their ideas are valued, their attitudes change, from one of detachment and frustration to involvement and fulfillment. This not only uplifts quality of their lives, but also brings about real growth in organization.

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-Lyrics -Authors -Famous people -Forum -CDs -Stereo -Radio -New Songs Out of these new keywords, you might choose to make a website that sells new songs; or make a new site in which you have everything (lyrics, authors, famous people, forums, and new songs). You can focus on selling CDs from that website with an online store. You must be creative by getting your ideas together and joining them to make a new idea altogether.

This method works extremely well to help you make an original idea. Remember, more keywords you can relate yourself with; more ideas you will have, and, subsequently; better your business will be. It is to be remembered that only two ways to be successful are:

-Making something very original. -Beating your competition.

If you focus on anything else; you will never stand out.

In this article, I focused on making something very original; since, with practice, you will be able to have so many ideas that your competition will keep wondering “Why didn’t I think of that before?”