It got 8, 300 submissions, says Michael Collins, boss of the Big Idea Group, a start-up firm that helped Staples to organise its competition.
"Our latest Idea-branded products offer more comfort, simplicity and responsiveness than ever before, " said Wei Jun, vice president, Idea Product Group, Lenovo.
More commonly one or two people might have an idea but then recruit a group to help execute the idea (because ideas are worthless without execution).
The idea for the group came last October from George Clooney, who was visiting Sudan.
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The MPAA's Litvack discounts the idea that his group is aiming at smaller targets.
"I originally got the idea from a group of colleagues in Glasgow who were offering it for some planned operations, " he said.
But now their spirits are being buoyed by the idea that Haniel Group is trying to change the chain's strategy to deliver more value for shareholders.
Paradoxically, his court case rests on the idea that his group has in fact uncovered those secrets and wants the judge to stop a secret program.
And Nicolas Sarkozy, France's president, has floated the idea of a group of European sovereign-wealth funds taking stakes in the continent's most important firms (see article).
As the sculptor of the statue, I alone conceived the idea of a group of three soldiers of diverse racial and ethnic characterisations, because it was a true reflection of the actual participants.
"I cannot subscribe to the idea that a group of 12 -- however they may ultimately be constituted -- ought to make the decision on who is to be confirmed and who ought not to be confirmed, " he said.
This novel idea comes from Chrysler Group, which lays out the details in the latest ads for its 2013 Dodge Dart.
Daily Facials, a disposable cleansing cloth that also moisturizes skin, is an idea from the paper group--Pampers, Charmin, Bounty--and is now being borrowed by SK-II and Old Spice.
But for the most part he defended his spies fiercely, praising their work on Iraq's missile programmes, dismissing Mr Kay's idea that the survey group's work was 85% done, and denying that the CIA had deemed Saddam an imminent threat.
If there are 10 people in a room and one has a great idea, do you find yourself as the ringleader of the other nine who believe God appointed the group to be the idea police?
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But his group supports the idea that the FAA self-certification system should be reviewed, to bolster its safety.
Soriano refused to confirm the G14's preferred format for a revamped Champions League but he floated the idea of a bigger initial group stage.
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Interestingly, neither group had any idea what the "gender gap" was.
And as NPR's Michele Kelemen reports, Rice is merely testing the waters rather than plunging in to the Baker group's idea to resolve the Arab-Israeli conflict.
He took his idea to his local trade group, the Bay Area Builders Association, and convinced members to start a home-building program for wounded veterans.
Conservative finance spokesman Gavin Brown said that in theory, the idea of an independent expert group scrutinising decisions made by the Scottish government was a good one.
After volunteering for a short time with The Idea Village, a nonprofit group that supports entrepreneurs, University of Pennsylvania graduate Miji Park said she didn't want to leave.
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But she said that judgement should be made on the basis of "capability" and she was "deeply uncomfortable" with the idea of excluding a whole group of potentially capable soldiers, just because of gender.
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The group believes that this idea would "open up the possibility of becoming an organ donor to a much wider range of people".
AIDS, transforming it overnight from a small group with a good idea to a powerful one with a lot of money to spend.
The idea is about 10 people per group, but more than 10 times that number showed up last Tuesday in response to an open invitation on LinkedIn from Mary Dove, a New York psychotherapist.
Atwater led the group in approving the idea.
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When Kumar Mangalam Birla, chairman of Aditya Birla Group, mooted the idea four years ago of acquiring U.S.- headquartered Novelis, the world's biggest producer of rolled aluminum, key executives at his commodities conglomerate shot it down as too risky.
Another idea, being tested on a different group of children, is to hand out free mobile telephones.
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