Trident Plastics - Develop your innovation strategy

We've gone through a lot of changes in the last four years [Before the program my biggest concern was that] We've gone through a lot of changes in the last four years and there's a lot more change to come to the industry. While we have been moving along, [it's important] to always look into the future at the changes that will happen, to make sure we can change and innovate with the right speed to stay in the market place. Better understanding of outside the normal, obvious-way-to-fix-things innovation. I think there's a better understanding of what innovation can be outside the, normal obvious-way-to fix-things innovation. We have found how it's more relevant, what it can be, it's given us a structured way to implement it at all levels of the business. And what I've just asked Bob to do is to bring up our normal management tool and you would see how it actually feeds quite well into our business plan that we are supposed to go on. Innovation will help us meet our business improvement targets I do think, (and you probably saw it a bit, especially from Lindsay), we got a better understanding of how it [innovation] meets some of the business improvement targets - meeting and sustaining our sales growth forecasts. How to go about that, and not just him alone, but how to get the company behind him. Yes! I would recommend it! Yes! What I would like to probably say is we weren't quite clear of exactly what it [the innovation program] was about. I think at the start ... it could've been clearer what it was and how it was going to align so it fitted into the company [Editors note: a 3rd party handled the communication and booked the program for Trident - looks like some of the communication was less than optimal. When you deal with us directly, the pre-programme communication is excellent]. You might have thought that maybe I came from a few odd angles but it was actually to make sure it fitted where we want to go and how we, could easily introduce it. And you will see that better when I bring up the management tool - how we manage things here. I will show that to you in a minute. I suppose, probably a little bit of an apology about (that), it's very busy here now and we could probably give it a little bit more time and attention that we have, right?