These days, I try to journal a lot, and I try to draw
ideas from my life.
We take
ideas from our employees about how to make the workplace better.»
Questlove, whose band is the house band for Late Night With Jimmy Fallon, said he got
the idea from doing a few DJ gigs out on the West Coast, where there were food trucks galore.
The bottom of the invitation also says «Join us to hear creative new
ideas from teachers and students,» leading us to believe there might also be some focus on education.
«We're constantly thinking about
this idea from the perspective of the players and the needs of the players in terms of what can we can do with our ability and our technology to capture that excitement and passion.»
Perform each of the following searches, and jot down at least five
ideas from each source.
Of course, Tinder itself uses Facebook data to act as a digital matchmaker (as do many other dating apps), and Facebook's dating feature seems to borrow
some ideas from one of the world's most popular dating apps.
By bringing together people of different backgrounds, you gain the ability to escape a single group's echo chamber and avoid errors caused by groupthink; the power to act as a connector or translator between different circles; and the immense creative potential of combining
ideas from different fields.
He explains how his company helps big corporations to surface the best
ideas from their workforce:
We still gain new
ideas from interacting, collaborating and competing with others.
The quality has degraded to reusing
ideas from 2003 — sending pictures in text messages that disappear.»
«That's the biggest mistake most inventors make — is they look at
an idea from a passion perspective rather than analyzing it as a business opportunity.»
If you have what it takes to get
an idea from nothing to a stable business, you will go far on your entrepreneurship journey.
Find opportunities on a range of small business
ideas from children's education franchises like Kumon, Huntington Learning Center, and i9 Sports.
Here are a few
ideas from Michigan State University alum and Michigan entrepreneur, Jenna Kator, founder of the Jenna Kator Collection (JK).
When a CEO approves a CMO's marketing plan, when a client buys a bold
idea from an agency, when a consumer tries a new product, they do so without certainty about the outcome.
(The company declined «for competitive reasons» to reveal when it plans to equip other outlets with such gadgetry, but the reality for the chain is that its dealers, who own their stores, have a long history of resisting new, and potentially costly, merchandising
ideas from head office.)
For the bays where the glasses are on display, the company borrows
an idea from bookstores, with shelves that often go nearly to the ceiling and sliding ladders that staff can use to grab hard - to - reach pairs of glasses for the customer.
«Thanks to the globalization and Googlization of the world economy,» writes Economist correspondent Vaitheeswaran, «clever
ideas from every corner of the world now have the chance to be taken seriously — even if they come from people without fancy credentials.»
He dismissed
the idea from his mind.
At InList, we've seen the value this approach can deliver: We often get our best product
ideas from our concierges — the people listening to our customers.
Some of the best companies pivot or excel because of great
ideas from their people; why not allow your team members to make waves in your own company?
Rather than rely on outside consultants, the LEGO Group pulls its best
ideas from its insiders.
Life isn't just about planning, so I don't want you to get the wrong
idea from this series of posts: personal branding isn't all about planning either; it's about living.
Check out these innovative
ideas from around the world.
One of its biggest problems is exacerbated by some users taking tweets too seriously, as Robinson Meyer at The Atlantic explains, adapting
ideas from the social media researcher Bonnie Stewart.
At our monthly company meetings, the best
ideas from a suggestion box were announced.
Borrowing
an idea from the company's competitors, Vetras deployed part - time field merchandisers in 10 major metropolitan markets to augment the employee shoppers from Edmark.
Here's how Popova describes her mission: «In order for us to truly create and contribute to culture, we have to be able to connect countless dots, to cross-pollinate
ideas from a wealth of disciplines, to combine and recombine these ideas and build new ideas.»
Remain open to major
ideas from your collaborators.
The research crunches numbers to determine the cost to large companies of having all - male executive boards running the show, and while it's far from the first report to conclude a lack of gender diversity is a terrible
idea from a business perspective, this analysis produced one particular attention - grabbing finding.
«I read blog posts and tweets from customers, and I definitely get
ideas from them that I personally might not have thought of.»
Finding inventive product
ideas from nontraditional sources can help companies stay ahead of the competition.
Taking
the idea from an entrepreneur he met, Feld suggests having each new employee do two weeks of customer support, laying out the rough outlines of a three - week orientation process:
And if you want to take things a step further you can add a related
idea from author Laura Vanderkam that works for similar reasons — stop saying you don't have time for things.
They tweet about news and
ideas from the industry.
As an entrepreneur, it's imperative to stay up - to - date on new innovations so you can pick apart the good
ideas from the incredibly stupid ones.
Then adapt
your ideas from there to the bigger screen.
Fredericton MBA students can also team up with an entrepreneur and bring a business
idea from conception to reality.
Founders Fund had a manifesto that once said, «We wanted flying cars, instead we got 140 characters,» a ding at Twitter that expressed his disappointment with what he considered a lack of big
ideas from startups.
Ordering on brown paper bags is a gimmick at the sandwich chain — just one good
idea from Jeff Sinelli
Google didn't have a different
idea from the 23 other search engines.
But if you're thinking of cribbing
ideas from religion for your business, he ends with a note of caution.
Book review: Need, Speed, Greed: «Thanks to the globalization and Googlization of the world economy,» writes Economist correspondent Vaitheeswaran, «clever
ideas from every corner of the world now have the chance to be taken seriously — even if they come from people without fancy credentials.»
Slava explains, «We didn't vertically integrate the entire process, but we partnered with the right players to take
ideas from ideation to distribution.»
As a follow - on to Inc's February 2002 cover story, we bring you more
ideas from our panel of experts as they address the most pressing sales - management issues of the day.
DeProfio doesn't get all her conversation
ideas from a loose - leaf binder, of course.
In these cases, it's always important to separate
the idea from the person behind the idea.
Amid frantic technological change, Greenberg offered
ideas from Stanford as to how education can be redesigned to nurture more resilient thinkers in an increasingly ambiguous world.
Regardless of how you contact reporters, you're not going to capture their interest unless the Subject line (i.e. the story
idea from Step 1) is truly stellar.