Strategy Driven

APRIL 7, 2019

The fact of the matter is, I’ve never met an organization that lacks ideas. Not one, and I’ve worked with some of the most backwards bureaucracies in the world, and with innovation in North Korea to boot. They all claim they have a problem with generating enough ideas, and they’re all wrong.

Company 54

Company Idea Generation Innovation Workshop 54

Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 2, 2012

Running a bureaucracy. Creative new ideas generated. Doing the things necessary to assure revenue (billings, sales, add-on’s, marketing). Keeping the cash register ringing… rather than focusing upon what is being sold, how it is made and the kind of company they need to be. Maintaining the status quo.

Strategic Planning 69

Strategic Planning Budgeting Planning Competitive Advantage 69

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 7, 2012

There is also a "sweat the small stuff" day, once a quarter, for getting on top of the creeping bureaucracy and niggling problems that accumulate over time. None of them involve idea-generation schemes. Rather, they are all about translating ideas into action. Loosely defined roles.

Company 8

Company Stage-Gate Innovation Bureaucracy 8

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

That's what Kim Spinder learned when, as an employee for the Dutch ministry, she invented a hack to eliminate government red tape and replace bureaucracy with free-form, cross-agency collaboration. Rite-Solutions' innovation engine demonstrates that leaders are willing to take direction from the crowd.

Management 8

Management How To Innovation Bureaucracy 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2018

Unlike traditional suggestion systems, the Elop system is a holistic process for managing the full life cycle of creativity, designed to ensure that ideas don’t get lost and that employee motivation to offer ideas is encouraged, not dampened. It begins with idea generation but doesn’t stop there.

Creativity 10

Creativity How To System Motivation 10