Suggestion Box Innovator Gifts

'Get a new hair-do, join a health club, call your mother...'

"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."

Blue sky thinking

'Here's another one that'll make you blow your stack.'

GPC needs to make its new formula foolproof.

Should not have put that suggestion in the suggestion box.'

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

'...'Fire the coach'...'Fire the coach'...'Fire the coach'...'

Lateral Thinking - Not Out & Not In trays.

Comments. Complaints. Constitutional Amendments.

"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?"

Creative family

Suggestion and 'outside-the-box' suggestions.

Time Clock.

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

'I understand you're not very happy here, Wiley.'

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

Suggestion box.

The Big Idea vs The Small Change

A man stealing another person's ideas

"Will you manage my portfolio?"

"Find out who put a 100 dollar bill in the suggestion box. This person has potential!"

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

'I just want it on record that I'm delivering this for somebody else.'

"I write these in my manager's handwriting, so no one will hate me."

"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?"

Surveillance over the suggestion box.

"Your research is impressive, but you have too many original ideas to be credible..."

"I know it was your idea, but it was my idea to use your idea."

'Head of Ideas' In and Out trays

'It's got people contributing but it's a pain smoothing out all those notes.'

'This is Phillips. He's our new idea man.'