Make direction-setting bottom-up and outside-in
Make direction-setting bottom-up and outside-in
Make direction setting bottom-up and outside-in
“All stakeholders need a role in setting strategic direction.”
As the pace of change accelerates and the business environment becomes more complex, it will become increasingly difficult for any small group of senior executives to chart the path of corporate renewal. That’s why the responsibility for defining direction must be broadly shared—with all organizational members and interested external constituencies. Only a broad, participatory process can engender wholehearted and widespread commitment to proactive change. When it comes to setting direction, influence should be a product of foresight and insight rather than power and position.
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A provocative research finding is that 75-90% of all large organizational projects fail to meet their original objectives, (Patterson et al. (2006)). The same research suggests human practices... Read more
Hack by Michael Lennon on January 11, 2012
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The Deliberative Corporation is a technology-supported process for sustainable decision-making. It allows any organization or governing group to consult its population. The process builds trust... Read more
Hack by James Fishkin on August 23, 2011
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The Deliberatorium is a software tool designed to help organizations better harvest the knowledge and incorporate the perspectives of their members to identify solutions for complex problems,... Read more
Hack by Mark Klein on September 3, 2011
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Over the years I've participated in countless strategic planning projects, having spent several years as a management consultant and then as a member of the executive team of several public companies... Read more
Story by Jackie Yeaney on November 10, 2011
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American national government can more effectively serve the public by systematically opening its activities via social media. Politicians, bureaucrats and interest groups increasingly use social... Read more
Hack by James Strock on July 21, 2011
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It’s hard to talk about management innovation without tipping your hat to W.L. Gore, the venerable maker of Gore-Tex and a host of other pioneering materials and products as... Read more
Story by Gary Hamel on December 29, 2010
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CEMEX is fostering innovation by changing the way employees work. It is encouraging a change in practices towards more collaboration, transparency, and openness, and enabling these changes through a... Read more
Story by Jesus Gilberto Garcia on September 2, 2011
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Boeing has piloted a bottom-up approach to innovation in leadership, productivity and new ways of working. The Workplace Innovation Lab pairs 'Gen Y' employees with their manager and provides 90 days... Read more
Story by Jonathan Winter on September 20, 2011
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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
Story by Chris Grams on September 6, 2011
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This hack gives all employees the power to take management’s ideas and rework them to either replace the idea or merge the two together. Taking a cue from the open-source software world, the fork... Read more
Hack by David Mason on September 6, 2011
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The Ice Cube is like a Hero in the fairy tale story, that born from a discussion among activies in the bottom of the organization, swiftly up to become the Ice Cube, the intranet 2.0 portal, ... Read more
Story by Ice Cube Team on July 15, 2011
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Most businesses do a poor job of encouraging daily innovation from employees. This stalls the organisation's growth and leaves employers searching for that missing X factor that could help employees... Read more
Hack by Noorulla & Soni Rachel Oommen on March 25, 2011
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Balance and Fall
by Ross Smith
Hipparchus was a Greek astronomer and mathematician whose work surfaced last week, as we recognized the Autumnal... Read More
M-Prize Finalists Take the Work out of Work
by Ross Smith
The moonshot, Take the Work out of Work talks about blurring the boundary between vocation and avocation. Our goal is... Read More
100 Years of Frederick Winslow Taylor
by Ross Smith
2011 marks the 100th anniversary of the publication of Frederick Winslow Taylor’s Principles of Scientific Management... Read More
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Seth Godin: How to start--and ship
We are our own worst enemies when it comes to the emotional labor of doing great work, says MIX Maverick Seth Godin. He offers up powerful wisdom on how to overcome all of your excuses and get in the habit of starting the right things--and shipping everything you start.
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