A few years ago the Mini production line in England
was stopped each week so that every car worker
could brainstorm new ideas.

Each worker was asked to generate three small
ideas a year. This resulted in 14,000 new ideas,
11,000 of which were implemented.

Not bad.

Except that over in Japan Toyota’s employee
suggestion scheme generates 2,000,000 ideas
a year of which around 85% are implemented.

As we’ve said before, the best way to have a
good idea is to have carloads of them.