Some of the most interesting themes emerging from the entries so far: Increasing democratic influence on the appointment of leaders. (“The Organization Structure as Free Market”). Giving people the chance to shape their work and organizations (“Ideas.com“; “The Management Tree“; “Internal bidding for task assignment“). Creating ways to bypass the filters that impede direct communications [...]
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Still, it’s a rare perk at most companies, technical or not. For starters, it’s expensive. 3M invests more than $1 billion in R&D alone; 15 percent of that starts to be a sizable outlay. Author Scott Berkun writes about business innovation. He says these policies only work when the outcomes are backed. “Many companies have [...]
Usage is like oxygen for ideas. You can never fully anticipate how an audience is going to react to something you’ve created until it’s out there. That means every moment you’re working on something without it being in the public it’s actually dying, deprived of the oxygen of the real world. It’s even worse because [...]
Hat tip to Stefan Lindegard who quotes David Nordfors post speaking to the challenges of the corporate innovator: “When someone tries to innovate within a traditional organization, few will understand what he/she is doing, but everybody will understand who is a trouble-maker. After the innovation has been embraced by the organization, few will remember who started [...]
A slowly rotating signboard for FirstBank in Denver airport lends a helpful hand to parents before a long flight by wearing down their kids so that they fall asleep sooner on the plane. via adverlab.blogspot.com