Amplify imagination

“We often wrongly assume that commodity jobs are filled with commodity people. Everyone was born with the capacity to create.”

While we know a lot about how to engender human creativity — equip people with innovation tools, allow them to set aside time for thinking, de-stigmatize failure, create opportunities for serendipitous learning — little of this knowledge has infiltrated management systems. Worse, many companies institutionalize a sort of creative apartheid. They assign the label “creative” to select individuals and roles — and tacitly (or not) relegate the rest to mundane work. Management processes must nurture innovation in every corner of the organization.

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@ Wipro We Cycle

"From small beginnings come great things. In the world of infinite possibilities, a small thought can pave the way for an incredible innovation. It is insurmountable faith that one... Read more

Story by Shreya Sinha on January 19, 2011 2 Comments

Music and Leadership: a Perfect Combination

This is the story of BIZZARTS, a concept that was born out of the conviction that art can make an important contribution to the business world, both economically and creatively. What started out as... Read more

Story by Luc Galoppin on January 24, 2012 6 Comments

Finding and Expanding the Organizational Sweet Spot

Increasing innovation and productivity requires finding the organizational sweet spot and expanding it. All firms have a sweet spot— where the formal and informal systems overlap and selt-managenet... Read more

Hack by Charles Ehin on December 4, 2011 3 Comments

Boeing's Workplace Innovation Lab - Engaging 'Generation Y' as a powerful catalyst for productivity and change

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 2 Comments

Closing Whirlpool’s Innovation Process with a Bow

Whirlpool Corporation recently added the “bow” to the rock-solid and deeply embedded Double Diamond process which focuses on discovery and development of new opportunities in the front end. The Third... Read more

Story by Moises Norena on August 12, 2011 3 Comments

Riga DO™ Social Doing Platform - creating new Opportunity spaces

Implementing a multi-stakeholder scaffold/framework that grows participation, elicits and leverages human and social capital, aggregates microefforts and delivers engagement and crowdsourcing. Read more

Hack by Aleks Blumentals on July 16, 2011 0 Comments

Liberating Emerging Knowledge: Overthrowing the Pre-determiners

Many current approaches to finding useful meaning within the massive content in Web 2.0 and Enterprise 2.0 are rooted in Management 1.0 thinking. In contrast, the Awareness Engine™ uses content... Read more

Hack by Thierry Hubert on July 15, 2011 1 Comments

elBulli: a creative organization

elBulli is a well-known restaurant famous not only for his chef, Ferran Adria, but also for being a creative organization in which every year more than a hundred elaborations are put in place.At... Read more

Story by Andrés Hatum on July 5, 2011 3 Comments

Tapping Employee Enthusiasm for Facebook to Encourage Innovation

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 2 Comments

Not just an ordinary day at the beach: Organization innovation and employee empowerment at the Bank of New Zealand

The Bank of New Zealand introduces a new business model by upending its management model, and empowering branch managers to think and act like business owners. Read more

Story by Chris Bayliss on August 10, 2010 8 Comments

Tongal: A 21st century business model for finding top talent and putting them to work on something they love

Tongal circumvents the traditional Madison Avenue system, by using the internet to bring together talent around the world, and the organizations who need them to create winning advertising. Tongal... Read more

Story by James DeJulio on October 18, 2010 7 Comments

CoachingOurselves: No money, No time but we need management development that really 'works'!

Three rounds of layoffs, just off-shored our software dev. to Eastern Europe and got acquired by our competitor. The management team and I figured some sort of management development program might... Read more

Story by Phil LeNir on October 9, 2010 19 Comments