MEET YOUR IDEAS PEOPLE. EVERY BUSINESS HAS THEM BUT THEY’RE NOT ALWAYS VISIBLE TO LEADERSHIP TEAMS WHERE WILL YOU FIND THEM IN AND AROUND YOUR ORGANIZATION?

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WHERE DO YOU
LOOK TO FIND
YOUR BUSINESS
SUPERHEROES?
MEETYOURIDEASPEOPLE. EVERY
BUSINESSHAS THEM BUTTHEY’RENOT
ALWAYSVISIBLETOLEADERSHIPTEAMS
WHEREWILLYOUFINDTHEM IN AND
AROUNDYOURORGANIZATION?

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INTHE C-SUITE
Looking for the ideas people in the
C-Suite? They’re the folk who are
always curious.
It doesn’t follow that all ideas people
are loud and dominate the room.
Some of the best ideas come from
people who say little but think a lot.
They’re like submarines. They
surface every now and then with a
gem of an idea.
The trick of all good leaders is to give
everyone a voice around the
boardroom table (even when it’s
virtual).

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DEPARTMENT
MANAGERS
It’s not easy being a department manager.
They sit between the demands of the
business and of their people.
They know the goings-on in their
department better than anyone. But
they’re busy, with an ear to the ground
and their face to the grindstone. Can
anyone think in that position?
That’s why a smart leader takes
department heads away from their
everyday tasks now and then to give them
time to think.

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TEAM LEADERS
Nobody is closer to the action than
team leaders. They know how
processes work in their team
intimately, and how best to improve
the way their team works. They
understand how people think and the
norms of behavior they adopt.
Pity people don’t listen to them more
often. Imagine how great a business
would be if all that insight could be
harnessed to design processes to work
smarter!

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THE CORPORALS
HIDDENWITHIN
YOURTEAMS
Every organization has its corporals in the
workforce. They’re the engaged people
others follow - and turn to when the going
gets tough.
They’re the instinctive leaders that don’t
think any task is impossible.They’re the
CAN-DO people, good at goal setting, who
are always planning the next step in their
heads.
Giving corporals the flexibility to serve
customers in new ways is what creates an
above and beyond customer experience.
In a digital world, that’s important
knowledge.

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FREELANCERS
Give a thought to freelancers. The term
comes from Knights of old who offered
their ‘lance to hire.’ Turns out, fighting
every day makes you good at it.
Even today, there are gifted freelancers
out there who know their subject inside
out. All those experiences of doing the
same thing for different bosses brings a
unique know-how and a fresh perspective.
Are you tapping into the knowledge of
your freelance community?

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SUPPLIERS
Not all great ideas come from within.
There are superheroes in your supplier
base that know the market you serve
intimately, and the supply-chain that
operates within it.
Meeting suppliers can sometimes feel like
a burden. But it can pay dividends if you
invest time in listening.

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ANALYSTS AND IT
PEOPLE
Some people describe the IT team as the
‘business prevention department’ but
maybe that’s because they’re always under
pressure to keep the lights on.
Harnessing IT people in innovation is
important because they ‘ve the best
understanding of the possible.
IT people are naturally inventive and
passionate about the possibilities of
technology to invent new ways of doing
things.
They know how to apply technology to
solve problems and re-think processes.

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CUSTOMERS -YOUR BEST
IDEAS SUPERHEROES
If your business is anything like ours then -
when it comes to finding new ways to
create value or improve processes - your
best and brightest superheroes are you
customers.
It’s not always easy to really listen to
customers. They don’t always want to
spend time with you when they’ve got
their own lives to lead.
But investing time to listen to customers
and know what they care most about can
never be a poor investment – can it?

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NOW YOU’VE FOUND YOUR IDEAS PEOPLE
GIVE THEM THE TOOLS TO BUILD APPS
Encanvas is the app for building
enterprise-grade apps without coding
Turn ideas into apps in workshops. Create as many apps as
you need and change them as often as you like.
See a demo at www.encanvas.com