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The Suggestion Box is Dead

Ideas. They are the path to pain and the road to riches. Well, they are definitely the path to pain, and if you don’t give up because of the pain, maybe riches.

Most of the time, ideas in organisations are parked out of fear. They are sat on for years because it there is no money, no way to drive it forward, no time to have a meeting about it...Nothing happens...The world moves on. 

Suddenly an idea placed in the suggestion box a year ago is all over the media. That Friday night over a beer, we get to turn to our co-workers and say…I thought of that idea ages ago and put it in the suggestion box.  

Shareholders are screaming as the stock falls and there is now a mad scramble to create a less refined me too version of the competitor product which is now selling in droves on the market.

Creating Ideas and Driving them Forward

The suggestion box is where ideas go to die. More often than not, many organisations do not know how to create an infrastructure for nurturing ideas.

We have all been in those long, uncomfortable, unproductive meetings where the boss needs ideas. People hate it, because you will get maybe one or two ideas from a three hour session using this method.

When BEAF work with organisations to come up with new ideas during an Innovation Day, we use over 70 idea generating tools and typically generate over 100 ideas in three hours. 

Our suggestion box is pinipa. It is a cloud-based platform which allows us to post all the ideas generated up to the cloud.

Ideas can be collectively vetted by our clients and shared with their staff. The staff can then vote and comment on each idea with the most successful being turned into projects by line managers and driven to realisation.

We like Pinipa because it is super simple to use and works really well with our Innovation Days.

Don’t let your suggestion box kill ideas.

For more info on an Innovation Day with BEAF or on the platform pinipa, get in contact with me by emailing nik@beaf.com

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A very simple build on a Honda CB750. Love this bike.

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Plantable Wrapping Paper! Cool!! Stop motion vid explaining all. All kinds of cool!

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Best resume ever.

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Hand-Painted Letterform Demonstration

Watch master pinstriper Glen Weisgerber demonstrate the roundhand lettering technique. Awesome.

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Adventure Time carved crayons. Buy from the shop.

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The Man Who Planted Trees is a wonderful animation of the fictional short story by the French writer Jean Giono about Elzéard Bouffier, a shepherd who single-handedly reforested a desolate region of France. The acclaimed film was directed by Frédéric Back.

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Phonebloks. A phone worth keeping.

Incredible idea. Take that built-in obsolescence!

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Series of lovely illustrations by Brosmind that depicts 20 characters and what really goes on inside them.

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Prototyping On Paper. Pretty cool.

Handy.

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Fi looks at the possible future of the airline website.

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How much caffeine is in your coffee infographic

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Forebruary

Forebruary is a wall calendar that you do not need to replace. Ever. The movable frame above the surface contains every month needed. The red stripe is not just decoration but highlights the weekend, by Ilya Birman.

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Canary is a beautifully designed device that contains an HD video camera and multiple sensors that track everything from motion, temperature and air quality to vibration, sound, and activity in your home.

Controlled entirely from your iPhone or Android, Canary alerts you when it senses anything out of the ordinary — from sudden temperature changes that can indicate a fire, to the sound and movement that could mean an intrusion. Instantly receive, view and act on the alerts wherever you are. And over time, Canary learns your home’s rhythms to send you smarter alerts.

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SUPER LIGHTWEIGHT SHOES MADE FROM TYVEK

Would you believe a pair of comfortable shoes could be made out of Tyvek paper and weigh less than 150 grams each?

Well Unbelievable Testing Laboratory has proved it with their limited-edition, “impossibly light” Light Wing trainers. 

Check out the full story here.

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Beautiful images of porcelain fighting figures dropped and photographed at the moment of shattering. Via the awesome and way-too-regularly-plagiarized Theory & Hero.

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The Weight Recorder - (The Synesthetic Recorder of Involuntary Memory)

By Weiche Wu, records the changing weight of a person over a period of time — it makes marks on a disk that responds to the passed life. The device is a mechanical scale with a compass holding a pencil that can draw lines on the tracing paper disk attached to the statistical part. When the user stands on the scale, the compass turns and the pencil draws an arc. The radius of the compass can be adjusted in every usage, so the arcs are drawn concentrically. The user can use the devices over a certain period of time, eventually the user will get a graphical ‘life-tracing’ on a disk.