[chuckadams]

"Innovation Doctrine" sounds like something you put next to your Mission Statement. How about fostering an internal discussion board where employees can pitch ideas and get hooked up with others who know how to implement them? If you need guard rails around the anarchy, then you can tie action items to a ticket tracking system that's readable by the whole company. I can file a bug in JIRA against any product my company makes, why not the company itself?

[MeetingsBrowser]

Because in large companies, any helpful suggestions get lost in the noise. Everyone has opinions on how things could be done better, but very few of them are good.

[chuckadams]

The discussion forum still has to be managed (I said "anarchy" facetiously) and at least minimal standards of professionalism would still have to apply. And if the board still devolves into a swamp of griping and bickering, then well, they can nuke it and at least say they tried.

Most ideas are indeed crap, and the good ones have to be picked out. But reducing the total number of ideas doesn't raise the percentage of good ones.

[justin_oaks]

I remember a company I worked at that an internal website for suggesting ideas. The problem is that the management never looked at it. And because of that, employees stopped posting to it. And that was that.