Any items relating to creativity, suggestions, ideas and putting innovation into action are discussed. The British Quality Foundation (BQF) is a not-for-profit membership organization that promotes business excellence to private, public and voluntary organizations. The BQF is Europe's largest corporate membership organization promoting performance improvement and excellence.

The Foundation promotes business excellence through numerous activities, but at the core of all the programmes is the Excellence Model. Thousands of organisations in the UK now use this Model to plan their improvements and monitor progress through regular self assessment.

The nine elements of the Model have been identified as the key components of business excellence. These have been verified by extensive research and the Model has been validated by several hundred companies throughout Europe.

The BQF Innovation blog has been running since May 2006, and despite being the blog of a large company, has been updated by just one person since its inception.

While there are always a few event-related posts, most of the content is useable by readers worldwide, with the majority of it belonging in the very broadly named 'Innovation' category. If you want any more specific information, Google's site search function is needed, as there is no search box and no more specific categories.

Yet the information is unbiased, comprehensive, and useful. The blog is a great resource for managers of all kinds, not only marketing and strategy managers. Lessons include whether brainstorming sessions are a waste of time, remembering to ask 'What business are we in?' (and understanding that people don't sell Wonderbras ... they sell self-confidence, etc), and how to tame the meetings monster. Solutions that the blog provide age-old advice, that nevertheless challenges you to innovate in modern and new ways.