Remembering own ideas when required
All the members of organization has their ideas about how the processes/products can be improved, but they are not too careful about remembering their ideas and put forward it at right time.
This is also true about giving requirements for the products, end users can not give exact requirements when it comes to defining requirements(e.g. in software industry we find that many times requirement docs can not describe features that users have in mind).
What we can do is set up tools/processes for employees in organization so that they can record their ideas in any direction any time, when they see other thing around. They can recall these ideas and check if any of them are useful in the problem/requirements on hand.
Though most organization talk about innovation, usually it is difficult to gather ideas from people when requested, as they do not occur in a flash. We need systematic way for people to create/consolidate their ideas over the period and then submit it.
One way for provoking the innovation could be to create a mechanism where people can record and refine their ideas. We can set a tool in organizations for where people can store their personal ideas, keep on refining it till they feel confident to present it. Then periodically invite people to submit the ideas, they can have a relook at recorded ideas and submit it.
This is a veiw from Achintya Bakre, Infosys Learning Services
