IBM’s own transformation as a competent and reliable global sourcing partner (supplier) involved refining and emphasizing its internal ‘project’ perspective on high-tech production. They recognized that successful projects were the key to IBM’s continued success. IBM had a catalogue of the practices and techniques observed to be effective on the many hundreds of internal projects,

Many businesses, large and small, have a huge source of great ideas that can help them improve, innovate, and grow, and yet so many of these companies never think of using this amazing corporate asset. What is this highly valuable asset? Its own people.

Says Morgan Fraud, the author of The Thinking Corporation, “Given that we are all capable of contributing new ideas, the question becomes how do you successfully generate, capture, process and implement ideas?” Becoming an organization capable of answering this question can benefit in a number of ways