1. We needn't make innovation hard by insisting the end product is always huge and/or high-profile. We shouldn't think that innovation is something that can be outsourced, either to a small team or to a software vendor (the latter being a surprisingly popular choice for many newspaper publishers).
2. And we needn't necessarily worry that we're not having enough ideas. If you ask around, you'll probably find it's not ideas we're lacking. What's tricky (I know - this is my job) is capturing the best ideas, mapping them to strategic goals, and delivering them in a way that makes them successful.
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4. To do that, you need innovators who understand the importance of baby steps and can deliver them, one after the other, regular as clockwork. And, unlike Red Stripe, you can make their life easier by making sure they're not locked away from the rest of the business, worrying about a blank sheet of paper and a mighty expectation from the mother ship that, somehow, they'll be able to see the future from there.”

1. “If you don't experience the problem you are solving, you are unlikely to solve it in an innovative way. Locking six people up in a room for six months with £100,000 isn't giving them much of an opportunity to experience problems.”
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3. The size of your innovation does not matter. What matters is whether it works. Really big ideas can end up being impractical, and small ideas or tweaks of existing ideas are easier to implement and often bear more fruit.

1. Innovation does not have a size...it can be a small change that helps solve a big problem.
2. Innovation is not in a vacuum, and anyone might have a solution, including young people and customers.
3. Innovation will succeed in business when the business accepts innovation as part of their corporate culture.
4. It's important to stay connected to technology and what's going on in the outside world and new media if we want to really be innovative.
5. And finally,
   "Innovation is not a buzzword to be repeated in meetings, it's an action, a culture, a day-to-day activity."

1. Innovation cannot be forced, and often not even planned.
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3. Innovation isn't always about creating something totally new. Adapting, combining and applying existing ideas in new ways can be just as innovative.”

1. Innovation needs an exit strategy: it needs a plan of how it is going to end- when you are going to stop – when and how it is to handed over to others.

1. An assessment activity can help learning if it provides information to be used as feedback, by teachers, and by their [students] in assessing themselves and each other, to modify the teaching and learning activities in which they are engaged. Such assessment becomes ‘formative assessment’ when the evidence is actually used to adapt the teaching work to meet learning needs. (Black et al. 2002)