{"id":234,"date":"2009-09-11T10:20:35","date_gmt":"2009-09-11T02:20:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/?p=234"},"modified":"2009-09-11T10:20:35","modified_gmt":"2009-09-11T02:20:35","slug":"the-problem-with-suggestion-boxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/?p=234","title":{"rendered":"The problem with suggestion boxes&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a tool to facilitate and encourage employees to share their ideas about new business opportunities, suggestions boxes have the same effect as a shredder does on paper.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s more they don&#8217;t scale, they don&#8217;t manage expectations and they&#8217;re not robust.\u00a0 About the best thing you can do to a suggestion box is to ask employees to suggest the most creative way to destroy the box itself.<\/p>\n<p>So what do you once the suggestion box has been burnt\/shredded\/crushed and microwaved? Start researching prediction markets from companies like BrightIdea, and read posts like this from<a href=\"http:\/\/bankervision.typepad.com\/bankervision\/2008\/12\/introducing-inn.html\" target=\"_blank\"> James Gardner<\/a>&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a tool to facilitate and encourage employees to share their ideas about new business opportunities, suggestions boxes have the same effect as a shredder does on paper. What&#8217;s more they don&#8217;t scale, they don&#8217;t manage expectations and they&#8217;re not robust.\u00a0 About the best thing you can do to a suggestion box is to ask [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-innovation-culture","category-innovation-processes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}