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Successful innovation is always problem-focused. And the most powerful solutions emerge when problems are clearly defined.

Even the most experienced management innovators bump into roadblocks that frustrate their progress. The way forward is to identify these barriers, break them down into solvable chunks, and focus on the high-value areas.

Here you can browse through the problems others are encountering — whether they're political squabbles, capability gaps, or resource constraints — and propose solutions. And, of course, you can bring your own barriers to the conversation. You might find that others have wrestled with the same issues and come out on top.

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Cons of a hierarchical organization

Why does decision making always have to be judgmental and uncertain? Can we have a better way to leverage employee brain power?

Barrier by Bharath Ramasubban on June 25, 2010

Gen Y

Leadership

Strategy. Decision Making

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Identifying and proposing a solution to rectify the root cause of many of our economic problems.

The root cause of many of our economic problems is an inappropriate measurement standard.

Barrier by Adrian Dore on January 28, 2013

Sedentary Voyeurism and the Spectator Mindset

Getting all hands on board to energetically and enthusiastically work on fixing what's broken with management today is susceptible to a growing trend, particularly here in the US of A. That is,

Barrier by Aaron Anderson on June 23, 2011

communities of passion

barriers

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The CEO versus Criminal Analogy, the one hundred years barrier

Almost a century ago the following analogy could be made:"A criminal is a person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to create a device for obtaining profit without ta

Barrier by Alexandru Bodislav on January 26, 2013

The Untrustworthy Expert: Why we should have a healthy skepticism of people identified as or proclaiming to be "experts."

Have you ever taken a leap of faith, followed the advice of somePh.D.

Barrier by Aaron Anderson on January 18, 2011

Difficult to make management innovation real

my belief is that most management team recognize the importance of innovation but has a difficult time to make it simple enough to adopt and apply on a consistent manner

Barrier by Brian Sin on May 14, 2010

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Remove the title of Manager

Instead of being the Manager have a title that tells others what you set out to achieve and reminds you of what is important

Barrier by John Coxon on May 1, 2010

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Trying to create a more innovative MBA OB/HR program

I'm looking for innovative ideas on what an MBA OB/HRM program would include? What courses would you have? What new ideas would you bring in? What have you seen out there that is already working?

Barrier by Marc Hurwitz on May 29, 2014

Recruitment & Selection

Management Phatics

Many managers ask their employees questions that open up thinking to problems, challenges, new ideas, and improvements.Unfortunately, some managers use these questions only to fulfill a social functio

Barrier by Kraig Parkinson on April 30, 2010

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Zero-sum budgeting leaves little incentive for colleges and university employees to create effective and efficient work flows

Zero-sum budgeting has long been the practice for university &college operations, particularly in the public sector. Essentially,when the city, county, and state governments are generating p

Barrier by Aaron Anderson on April 28, 2011

Human Toxicity

The fundamental flaw I've seen in all managment initiatives is the failure to account for the toxic effect of human motivators. Under stress most people slip down the evolutionary ladder and ope

Barrier by Barbara Kay on July 30, 2010

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The Emotional Distance

In large organisations, the centralisation or offshoring of process steps on customer facing operations and leads to a lack of emotional connection with the customers, leading to a poor customer

Barrier by MR Sundaresan on May 21, 2010

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Why is failure such a bad thing?

We know the lessons of Edison's light bulb. He had to fail so many times to get to what would work. We tell our kids to "fail and try again". But in our organizations, we hate failur

Barrier by Howard C. Park on May 20, 2010

failures

learning

organizational learning

Edison

trial and error

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Problems and Priorities

I would like to pose a question and this question seriously needs an answer particularly in my country (Iran).

Barrier by Jamal Ghamari on July 22, 2010

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Those French have a different word for everything! Frustration tramples innovation.

We're the largest sub in a global company HQ'd in France. To "Control costs, Harmonize, Be more efficient..." the HQ org., has estabished technology shared services in low cost countries (Buchar

Barrier by Les Fondy on June 10, 2011