Organize your business ideas

Favor an innovative environment that is orderly, prioritizes and filters proposals. Lead your business to success!

Do you know where the next great idea for your business can come from? From an employee, a client, suppliers or even a stranger. Everyone involved in your business can drive innovation. Make sure the best ideas don't get lost with these tips.

Let us adopt a culture of innovation and organization of ideas in order to facilitate acting on them.

The central location for the discussion of ideas is a great start, create a specific space where ideas are shared and collected, use dynamic tools and create the necessary conditions for collaboration and feedback, an Online forum, by mail or with portals On the intranet at work, there are free tools like Google Docs or Google Hangouts to discuss and gather ideas. Once these ideas have been gathered, an efficient way to order them is to label them, so that they are organized and divided by themes, it can be by categories “Customer ideas” or relate them to an area or project, for example: “customer service”. Separating the ideas into small groups helps us to process them and choose the ones that best suit your business. Using smart tagging will motivate the creation of new ideas or if we focus on specific goals or tasks, the titles of the lists can motivate creativity and the generation of new ideas.

Thinking of a person in charge for each area or for each list is key, defining tasks and maintaining an order helps us to ensure that everything flows in the best possible way, those in charge of care and evaluation, fulfillment of goals, this person will be in charge and who will be You should consult in case of doubts or modifications. To prevent ideas from accumulating or remaining in the  forgotten by not being executed, try to analyze each of them as quickly as possible, discard those that are not viable and set aside those that have the potential to be carried out under their label or their corresponding group, those that need immediate action, or those that have to be thought to be put into action.

It is always very important every time a decision is made to maintain excellent communication with our team, let them know what ideas were chosen and reward or recognize those who generated them, that will create motivation and more people will share their thoughts in the future, which will be reflected in more projects, more contributions for your Business and its growth in the short, long and medium term.