International Ideas Week 2009

Another great International Ideas Week took place between 11th and 15th May. We held events around the country for both members and non members.

This year we employed a PR company to try and get us some more publicity and overall during the week there were 12 radio interviews carried out. We were hit a little by the MP's expenses taking up most of the available airtime, however we still think it was a success.

International Ideas Week is an ideal opportunity for our members to promote their programmes within the organisation and is also a good opportunity for scheme managers to highlight the positive aspects of innovation within the business.

A big thanks you to, Tom Dupre, Alan Firmin, Stuart Laws, Graham Holt, Lesley Sanderson and Sarah Fechner for taking time out during the week to help us with presentations.

A copy of the presentations are below.











To download the presentations, first click on the menu button then click on the presentation title and you will be offered a number of download formats.

Public Sector Networking Event

On the 30th April, we held our first Public Sector / Local Authority networking event in Birmingham. We had speakers from the Identity and Passport Service as well as The District of Easington Council.

The day was spent looking at the different aspects of managing a suggestion scheme and there were group exercises around evaluation and marketing a programme within organisations.

This will now be a regular event and the next event will take place in October / November 2009. A big thank you to Sarah and Bristol City Council and Bev of North Norfolk Council for you help in organising the event.

The presentations from the event can be found here :-
















To download these presentations, just click on menu and then the presentation title where you will be presented with a number of format options.