Generating ideas from all your staff

This is a fascinating story about generating ideas from all your staff.
In this century, group-think is more profitable and productive (and correct).

"At Rite-Solutions, top executives James R. Lavoie and Joseph M. Marino focus on an internal stock market they created where any employee can propose a new business idea or efficiency improvement. These staff ideas become stocks, complete with ticker symbols, discussion lists and email alerts. It's called Mutual Fun. 

"Each stock begins trading at a price of $10. Every employee gets $10,000 in 'opinion money' to allocate among the offerings, and employees signal their enthusiasm by investing in a stock and, better yet, volunteering to work on the project.  Volunteers share in the proceeds, in the form of real money, if the stock becomes a product or delivers savings." (From a New York Times story by William C. Taylor, published March 26, 2006)