"I Have An Idea..."
Monday, September 19, 2011
Or "What if..?" (Two words.)
Or "Why not..?" (Two more.)
If you are an average-sized hospital, you have, maybe, 2,000 people working in your organization? Think there might be, say, 10 great ideas in there somewhere? 10 new, paradigm-busting, customer-delighting game changers?
2,000 people, ten great ideas, two words. 2,000/10+2
It's not exactly Pythagoras as math formulas go. But before you question the power of new ideas, here's a headline for you: "Online gamers (i.e. scientific novices) crack AIDS enzyme puzzle."
"Online gamers have achieved a feat beyond the realm of Second Life or Dungeons and Dragons: they have deciphered the structure of an enzyme of an AIDS-like virus that had thwarted scientists for a decade."Kids, thinking differently, solving problems. It's not that the ideas aren't out there, waiting. They are.
"What if..?"
Leave a comment about how your organization is cultivating the next generation of game-changing ideas. Where do you find them? Nurture them? Reward them? Thanks!
