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We’re thrilled to introduce you to the winners of the Management 2.0 Challenge—the first phase of the HBR/McKinsey M-Prize for Management Innovation.

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The Management 2.0 Challenge

The Management 2.0 Challenge

Part One of the Harvard Business Review/McKinsey M-Prize for Management Innovation

The Management 2.0 Challenge

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In the first leg of the Harvard Business Review-McKinsey M-Prize for Management Innovation, we invited management innovators from every realm of endeavor to share the most progressive practices and disruptive ideas that illustrate how the governing principles and tools of the Web can make our organizations more adaptable, innovative, inspiring, and accountable.

They did. We received more than 140 impressive Stories (instructive case studies) and Hacks (experimental designs), selected 20 stellar finalists, and announced seven winners of the Management 2.0 Challenge.

Read more about Management 2.0 in Gary Hamel’s challenge essay. You can check out the winning entries feature above, learn more about the finalists here, and explore all of the entries below.

Submission Deadline

July 18, 2011

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    Entries

    Nobody’s as Smart as Everybody—Unleashing Individual Brilliance and Aligning Collective Genius
    Rite-Solutions created a state-of-the-art “innovation engine” designed to provoke and align individual brilliance toward collective genius. The goal was to connect on an emotional level where all... Read more
    By Jim Lavoie of Rite-Solutions on September 14, 2011 14 Comments
    Building the Social Web into the Fabric of the Organization
    While large segments of the American population have grown up in a connected world and are more comfortable with web and social networking technologies in their private lives, the companies they work... Read more
    By Srini Koushik of HP on May 31, 2011 8 Comments
    The Colleague Letter of Understanding: Replacing Jobs with Commitments
    Morning Star creates a software system that serves as a commercial social network, where colleague commit to their Colleague Letter of Understanding (CLOU) to accomplish specific activities. These... Read more
    By Paul Green, Jr. of The Morning Star Company on November 5, 2011 16 Comments
    A framework for Management Innovation exists .. we just don't call it "Management"
    Management innovation is available  from the world of organizational development, as it's principles and dynamics are closely aligned to Hamel’s suggestion that “activities will still need to be... Read more
    By Jon Husband on August 1, 2011 2 Comments
    Talking Village - Reinventing Problem Solving And Management Development
    This story shows how one company made a complete 180 degree turn in management development by letting managers into the wild and letting them do what's natural while developing them through peer-to-... Read more
    By Matt Shlosberg of Hanna Concern on May 26, 2011 4 Comments
    Designing open collaboration in Red Hat Global Support Services
    Imagine a room filled with 100 people like you. Everyone knows a little something about a little something. Now let’s say 25 of those people are given a question to answer. If they know the answer,... Read more
    By Sam Folk-Williams of Red Hat on April 25, 2012 9 Comments
    Strategic Planning the Wikimedia Way: Bottom-Up and Outside-In
    In 2010, the Wikimedia Foundation, a small non-profit supporting Wikipedia and related projects, turned the conventional approach to setting strategy on its head. Against a backdrop of slowing... Read more
    By Chris Grams of New Kind on September 6, 2011 7 Comments
    Meeting Consensus
    Sometimes meetings are absolutely crucial; frequently, they are not. Why? Organizational norms and behaviours can get in the way sometimes if they aren't refreshed. So, I propose a refresher. An... Read more
    By Sean Schofield of CBC on September 2, 2011 6 Comments
    Purpose Innovation
    Purpose Innovation driven “purpose bundles”, are products and services from variety of related and unrelated industry providers that are bundled together by a powerful "purpose causal... Read more
    By Charles Prabakar of ABS/Willis Consulting LLC on July 27, 2011 5 Comments
    The Community Is The Organization
    Communities exist because the individuals that participate get more out then they put in, scaling from very little value to significant value. In addition the value into and out of communities can be... Read more
    By Rachel Happe of The Community Roundtable on June 6, 2011 8 Comments