Google—The 21st Century Company - Harvard Business Online's Tom Davenport - The Diigo Meta page

• 12 Jun 08
  

  Jan Gondol
  • If your ideal organization cared about getting new ideas and products from your employees, you’d strongly encourage your people to spend a specified chunk of time on innovation. You’d ensure that there were few barriers to getting innovation into the marketplace, and you would let customers decide what innovations are truly useful to them. If you cared about productivity, you’d provide a rich array of (mostly free) services to your knowledge workers so they could concentrate on their work. One of them, for example, would be providing interesting and high-quality food in the cafeteria, so they wouldn’t be distracted by looking for restaurant food.
  • You’d hire the best quality people in the first place, and you’d go to considerable effort to determine analytically what “best quality” means. If you wanted to get and keep those people, you’d provide a very stimulating intellectual environment at work, and you’d make the workplace fun. You’d think carefully about both the technology environment for your people, but also their physical environment—because the physical workplace still matters. Since your people in this ideal organization are smart and connected, you’d ask them to participate in prediction markets and online suggestion programs.
• 17 Apr 08
  

  google 2read delicious

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