Title: High and Low Tech Tools for Recording Ideas: Some Suggestions

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Section/SPIG: Health Administration

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A company's future, is determined by creativity and innovation, and harnessing the resourcefulness of people
to create new knowledge. -- Denham Gray

Introduction

Luigi Pirandello is often quoted as having said, "The history of mankind is the history of ideas." Buckminster Fuller said that everyone has great ideas, but few people capture them, and even fewer act on them. He also said, "Man knows so much and does so little." Are you one of those people who have good ideas but never write them down or act on them? Do you know a lot but do little?

Thomas Davenport, well-known expert in the area of knowledge management, asked some critical questions surrounding big business ideas in his book mentioned below. He asked, "Where do ideas come from? More...