+1 and management should create a culture where enthusiastic individuals have a safe environment to voice and test their ideas. Management across the board also

+1 and management should create a culture where enthusiastic individuals have a safe environment to voice and test their ideas. Management across the board also has to know and drive the business strategy which should involve killing ideas at times. I can't imagine a large company with one person, the "CDO" all-knowing enough to govern all ideas within the company. Even the best entrepreneurs bet on bad ideas and disregard great ideas at times. Everyone should scrutinize ideas and collaborate on the decent ones to make them better. We should aim to create a sustainable engine of innovation fueled by great people up and down the ranks rather than a role.