Our Adaptable organisations need to be creative & agile. Our people need to feel empowered to take responsibility for working together across the structure to develop ideas, test and implement them.
The provision of physical space for people to come together and think differently can help seed this process. A creative space where people can meet, collaborate, sketch out their thoughts, expand on their thnking. An ideas lab, if you like.
It will be a semi-structured space that people can use flexibly, drink coffee, draw pictures, contemplate challenges and really get to grips with the ideas, services & products that can take the organisation forward. It will be a space where conversations with a purpose can happen.
Anyone can use this space; the culture allows everyone to innovate. Permission not required.
Amanda & Heidi, thanks for joining the team for this one. My contact email address, for you and any others who want to join in, is sandy@vanillalizard.com
Get in touch. Looking forward to developing the idea further after 14th July.
best wishes, Sandy
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People also need to not feel fear, something that in many organisations is exactly what a number of HR practices, especially Performance Management currently drives into people. HR would need to change the way it thinks about the organisation as a system, the role of management, the the nature of human motivation. For innovation to happen people need the mental and emotional space too.
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Thanks Andy, yes the culture has to be one where freedom to think & experiment is not only permitted but actively encouraged. Culture is the key to adaptive/agile organisations. The provision of physical/social space to innovate is simply a catalyst to spark new ideas; but if the culture is not conducive, that kind of activity will be much more difficult to nurture.
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