Here's a crazy idea: What if you turned the MIX community into a community of real-life problem solvers. Organizations (maybe non-profits) could post their challenges to the MIX and the community could then work collaboratively to help solve each problem using the tools and innovative thinking provided on the MIX. This would give practical expression to the ideas of the MIX and would help spread management innovation in a way ideas alone cannot.
Thanks Stephen, I love this idea. We've had thoughts along these lines before, to find a way to open up our M-Prize challenge and hackathon systems to smaller, possibly self-service problem solving for people with management innovation issues to use. In our traditional M-Prize challenges there are media sponsors and part of the incentive for participation is wide-spread recognition for the winners, but if we started smaller, non-sponsored challenges that kind of exposure beyond the MIX site likely wouldn't be something we could promise.
Do you have any thoughts on what could motivate MIX users to participate in smaller, non-sponsored challenges?
I'm also curious about your idea that people or orgs would submit their challenges privately, what do you think the advantages are of a private system like that? We understand that some issues involve sensitive and proprietary information, but we lean towards openness and transparency and having our MIX work being publicly available.
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I concur with the suggestions of Taylor Tomasini. In addition let us encourage , motivate and involve more heavily social enterprises and social entrepreneurs to be at the forefront on this management innovation initiative since they are very much needed to further revolutionize management practices which were once the exclusive domain of private businesses. Social enterprises and entrepreneurs pursue inherently societal goals- uplifting human conditions, social justice and the planet's environment while achieving their economic goals- the lack of which is why conventional private businesses triggered massive global financial malaise and as we speak still ravaging Europe ( the models of Sara Lee in Spain and Human Nature of Gawad Kalinga(GK) in the Philippines)
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Hi Taylor, this is really helpful and very much in line with some of the things we're considering. We think there's potential at both the "institutional level" (e.g., company X bids out a problem), as well as the "individual" level (e.g., Joe, HR leader in department Y, thinks performance reviews in his unit suck and wants some help in experimenting with alternative models).
thanks again
M
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Hi Taylor,
Thanks these are all very good ideas. I'll share them with our team and see if we can move forward on this front.
best,
Bruce
P.S. I fixed the display issue with this idea and removed the duplicate entries you had made.
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Taylor:
Great idea. I agree wholeheartedly. Didn't see this before I posted a similar response in another area--but this is the best way to leverage the MiX community.
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I like this idea for sure. To simplify a bit, it feels to me somewhat like having a forum feature on the website (or some more advanced version of that). Almost like stackoverflow or a LinkedIn group. Basically just adding a new type of content to the MIX - in addition to stories, hacks, moonshoots, etc you add "questions" or "puzzles" where people seek insight from the community on a problem.
Right now the content is really geared toward people posting ideas vs. problems. Allowing people to post problems/challenges opens it up a bit.
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Just joined recently, but definitely interested in the concept of of presenting real business problems/issues to the group for resolution ideas. As a consultant, I am always looking for better ways to serve my clients!!
Jerry
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