Idea Pioneer Gifts

"If you ask me between your stuff and my stuff, there's just nothing left to invent."

"Let's all go out & get drunk."

'If I don't think inside the box... why should I think outside the box?'

The First Marketeer: 'Hmmm!....The potential is enormous, I could corner the market in mammoth transport management!'

'I've decided to centralize my operations. Everything will be in my ipad.'

"Hmmm ... that's interesting. Now, what about ideas that don't suck - do you have any of those?"

"You're a genius, Shaw. This is an idea whose copyright has expired."

Ideas Ahead of their Time

Blue sky thinking

GPC needs to make its new formula foolproof.

'Frankly, I'm not sure this whole idea-sharing thing is working.'

"OK team, we need innovative solutions and we need 'em fast!"

Lateral Thinking - Not Out & Not In trays.

X-RAY

"Actually, I worked my way up from ideas and you can too!"

"I'm really great thanks. The boss loves my ideas, he says I'm ahead of my time!" "Hi John, how are you? Good meeting?"

Suggestion and 'outside-the-box' suggestions.

New Curriculum Timetable - All in Cantonese.

Open Source.

"You know if we market it right, this thing could spread like the wheel."

'This is a 'million dollar idea', Simms, unfortunately, our debt is two million dollars.'

"In the marketplace of ideas, we may not have the best ideas, but we have the best marketing."

"I'm going on Dragons Den with this, the one-brush-toothbrush."

A man stealing another person's ideas

The Big Idea vs The Small Change

'Wheel.'

'It's so new we don't know what it does, but nobody else has it so we're selling the hell out of it.'

'Quit if you want, Bowman, but the intellectual property stays here.'

'That's interesting Larry, but most people just use a flipchart to express their ideas.'

The Solution!

"Hey look, pretty soon Uber is going to have flying cab service,"

"That's out idea department – the door was one of their ideas."

"It's the new business model - my ideas have sex with your ideas."

"Any intellectual property yet, honey?"

'Face it, you've changed. The man I married would never subject his family to an annual cost-benefit analysis.'