Our parents’ electricity meter provided kWh readings, could only be read with human eyes, and required a machine shop to build. Today’s energy meters provide a laundry list of measurements, can be read from the comfort of your office chair, and require a wave soldering machine to manufacture. The increased complexity in delivering a meter with all of these advanced functions at a lower cost has driven semiconductor companies to pack more features into one integrated circuit device.

The greatest challenge of innovation for most companies is not a lack of ideas, but the quality of ideas, which leads to acceptance. In theory, quality ideas can come from anyone in an organization, but is that really your experience?

A process can increase the rate of ideas that deliver the required return on a company’s investment of money, time, and people. Can a process truly cultivate creative and useful ideas across a wider spectrum of employees?