Whenever I'm in discussions with people about management innovation, people are very interested in the work that has been done on MIX, and I encourage them to read and learn about new principles and ideas. This is positive, but in a busy workday — people don't really have the time to develop tools and methods for themselves. We have done a lot of the ground work, but we can do more I think. I would love to have a toolshed for Management 2.0 tools. To be able to say, "Look here, you loved the idea on Meritocracy - here are some tools and guidelines to get you started". I would love to find some developers who could help us make some easy HTML 5 tools that you could use every day. Each tool have a forum connected, where you can get help and discuss ideas for further development. Maybe even a whole framework can be developed over time. This can save a lot of time getting started and will be very helpful, especially for those who must work in stealth mode in their own organizations.
This is one of things that we can showcase in our toolshed: http://hackmanagement.com/m20-principles
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Hi Alberto - this link take you to the intro page, but the link to principles is broken,
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Hi Fiona, This feature seems to be working properly for me. If you're still having a problem accessing the principles, can you please let me know what operating system and web browser you are using?
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Great idea Jan! As innovators, it is very useful to get feedback about our ideas. I am sure that many of us have developed methods and tools that facilitate the implementation of a management 2.0 approach and we would like to share and to improve them. I love the idea of a forum for each tool where you can get help and discuss ideas for further development.
For example, as far as I know, there is no tools or methods to implement strategy with a management 2.0 approach. I've been working for more than 6 years implementing strategic planning processes trying to use this approach, but the models and tools I know are not very helpful. I have already developed a method but I am deploying it with a combination of Office tools, and it is not easy to adapt them.
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This is a great, practical idea. The content could be usefully categorised:
Reading & Current Thinking - for books, articles etc
Diagnostics - the "how are we doing today?" question and tools that help to sign post where you need to pay attention
Activities and Exercises - resources for exploring and doing
Examples of what others have done and learnt - case studies
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Thanks Jan--this is really helpful feedback. We totally agree that equipping people with some practical tools to become effective management innovators is as important as inspiring them to act, and that this should be a key priority for the MIX going forward. One of the things we're going to be working on this yeas is a MIX "Academy," where we'll have some instructional content/tools to help management renegades light the fires of management innovation in their organizations. Some of the content will be created by us (including our own "MOOC"), but the idea is also to have some of our community contribute as well.
Would love to hear what you and our fellow MIXers think would be most helpful/ cool tools to develop, e.g.:
1. A management innovation "diagnostic"
2. Templates/worksheets to facilitate a discussion with one's colleagues on how to hack specific problems (e.g., from identifying the barriers to creating a hack)
3. HTML 5 versions of some of the hacks we have on the site--so for instance, on Meritocracy, an on-line tool to assess who in your team is a "natural leader"
4. Collection of tools/content tackling specific topic areas that some of our MIXers have deep expertise in, like introducing serious play at work (something that Ross Smith of Microsoft knows a ton about), or busting the budgeting process (Bjarte Bosgnes of Statoil has done it successfully at his company, so I'm sure he could share some practical ways to get started to others)
thanks again for submitting such a thoughtful idea
M
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The management innovation diagnostic would be a nice tool. Something like "tell me how innovative are your management and organizational practices and I will tell you how innovative is your company at all". I have some ideas about it. I would love to contribute with this tool.
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Thanks JR, very helpful. On the diagnostic, what we had in mind is some sort of tool (e.g., survey) that would allow people to benchmark their practices against what we might think to be a "Management 2.0" standard. We hear you loud and clear on creating a common dictionary across all the like-minded communities...
Best,
Michele
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Hi Michele - regarding the Managment 2.0 diagnostic, have a look at: http://brandvelocity.com/files/documents/Six-Box-Leadership.pdf
The author, Vlatka Hlupic, was a member of the Managment 2.0 Hackathon.
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Agreed. Also a list of resources MIXers love, like books or blogs or other things from our community that would be easy for people to read more about particular areas of management innovation.
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Hi Maddie, thanks for such a great idea. Do you see this as something that is curated (whether by the MIX team or MIXer volunteer) or rather a more "unfiltered" space where people can submit links/docs--and where the "good stuff" emerges as a result of votes/likes (e.g., reddit)?
thanks
Michele
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I think definitely user-generated. Not sure about the voting piece (a +1 might be better, where people can indicate they like a resource but it doesn't move it up and down).
I think it could still be curated, or in other words have to be approved by a moderator (not sure what the admin resources are on the MIX side). But the moderator could help make sure everything had some tags, for example, so once it's in the list it comes up in keyword searches.
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It would be interesting to see how often different tools/books etc are mentioned in the mix. What about something like Amazon's system of "you might also enjoy"
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Thanks Susan, this is a great idea and something we are definitely considering to make sure people can easily find related content!
M
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