Blog Archive
October 2006
We all inwardly groan when the PowerPoint turns out to be slide after slide of bullets. We all have experienced the workshops which end up with a stack of crumpled flip-chart paper filled with lists – which some poor soul has to type up and email to everyone, who don’t bother to read them.
What is innovation? Here is an interesting take on the polarities of innovation. Storytelling, for sure, plays an important role in extracting ideas and knowledge from people within organisations, but there are no strict rules as to the form that innovation takes…
We love this poem by Elspeth Murray, which echoes our frustration at the complexity, jargon, irrelevance and clutter that litters communication within organisations today. Elspeth wrote the poem for the launch of the cancer information reference group SCAN (South East Scotland Cancer Network) in January 2006, which has been trying to improve the quality and speed of services for people with cancer.