Here’s what Capital Ideas members took away from the June 17 panel:

“The panel was a great way to learn about the different innovations that can happen in different industry sectors, it had a good variety.” — Nicolas Brown, issues editor at the NAIT Nugget — thenuggetonline.com

“My greatest takeaway was when the panelists discussed how leaders have to lead innovation, you have to live and breath what you want your vision to be so that your staff will take that internally and follow it. ” — Cherie Klassen, marketing and online resources manager at Business Link — businesslink.ca

“I really liked how the panelists talked about treating innovation like it is an entirely separate business.” — Odelia Choi, executive assistant at ATB Financial— atb.com

“I think the best thing that they talked about was the cross pollination to foster innovation and how talking between different disciplines helps to spur innovation.” — Shane Kelly, staff accountant at Deloitte — deloitte.com

The panel really highlighted how important the culture of an organization is for creating innovation. How it is often difficult for the leaders to create innovation by embracing change. — Sam Singh, marketing and strategy consultant — twitter.com/singhingsam

“Listening to the gentleman talk about two business tracks, one that focused on the day to day and one that’s focused on innovation and making sure that everyone connects on a regular basis towards a common goal really resonated with me.” — Lisa Todd, marketing manager at Diva Communications — divacom.ca

“I think the most important point brought up this afternoon is that If you have all like-minded people on a team you are not going to innovate very well, but if you get all kinds of creative and different people from different disciplines, you can achieve greatness.” — Nora Shea, president of Crowley Consulting