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We Perform Best When No One Tells Us What To Do
According to Dan Pink (lawyer, speech writer, author, and career analyst), the way to get the best original ideas out of people is to cut back on restrictions and rules regarding output, and stop offering incentives for work produced. This may sound a little backwards, but science has shown that sometimes when we offer rewards for output or production, it effects the quality of the ideas or work as opposed to offering no incentive.
In his TED Global 2009 talk last month, Pink said, “There is a disconnect between what science knows and what business does.” And he adds, “Traditional notions of management work great if you want compliance, but if you want engagement, self-direction works best.”
Facebook | Open Innovation in Google
Facebook group tracking Google open innovation topics
Prototype - Six Sigma and Design Thinking - How 2 Methods Should Mix - NYTimes.com
Design thinking offers tools for exploring new markets and opportunities; Six Sigma skills can be applied to improve existing products. Companies that adhere strictly to one or the other risk failure. “The practices that make for success at one time can trap firms and contribute to their downfall at a later time,” says Bob Cole, a quality expert and professor emeritus at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley.
Internet Evolution - Dan Keldsen - It's Time to Replenish Online Innovation
RE Enterprise Innovation: yes. but carefully. so often innovation goes the way of the concept car. really cool at the Show, but the production model sort of looks like all the other models. problem is, that so much impactful innovation is lost by corporate execs either hedging, or generally softening the edges of everything new that comes along. Quite often that yields high volumes of marginal In-faux-vation. "Innovation" is a required word for Execs to speak, but almost no companies have a cultural of innovation such that True Innovation can come to light, be executed, and then leveraged. Real Innovation is very scary stuff to an Exec with alot to lose. Infauxvation has almost as much buzz value, and a fraction of the risk. Manage your Career, or Manage Innovation. Every Exec;s choice to make.
GET EMPLOYEES TO BRAINSTORM ONLINE - November 29, 2004
According to a study by PricewaterhouseCoopers, almost half (45%) of lucrative ideas--whether breakthrough products or services, new uses for old ones, or ways to cut costs--come from employees. (Customers, suppliers, and competitors contribute the other half.)
3 Engaging Platforms — Competing on Execution
I was a corporate innovator and, for me, it always started with a question. “Why are we manually entering all that information from system A into system B?” or “Why are we running this entire multi-billion business on a spreadsheet?” I wasn’t the only person to notice these things– what made me an “innovator” was that I was willing to arm wrestle the organization until I landed the solution. But this is not a foundation for a successful business execution culture. Companies need a way to nurture and develop the ideas that have legs. Spigit has figured out integrating game mechanics into social networking can help companies like AT&T, MedPlus and Pfizer lower the innovation barrier and create a garden of innovation, instead of a wresting match.
Eight ways to kill an idea : FLIRTing with the Crowds
Series of drawings, depicting different ways ideas suffer internally.
BankerVision: The tools of innovation
Actually failure to all four stages is why I often make the observation that innovation programmes with their own large budgets usually fail. They don’t have to go through the rigour before they get to spend money, so invariably they spend money on the wrong things. Consequently, they also fail to get predictable in their returns quickly enough. Usually, at least in banking, you have 18 months to do that before your programme is killed off.
What Makes an Entrepreneur? Four Letters: JFDI | CloudAve
Entrepreneurs make fast decisions and move forward knowing that at best 70% of their decisions are going to be right. They move the ball forward every day. They are quick to spot their mistakes and correct. Good entrepreneurs can admit when their course of action was wrong and learn from it. Good entrepreneurs are wrong often. If you’re not then you’re not trying hard enough. Good entrepreneurs have a penchant for doing vs. over-analyzing. (obviously don’t read this as zero analysis)
Endless Innovation: What Shaun White and Snowboarding Can Teach You About Innovation
Instead of keeping these snowboard routines hidden from judges until the Olympics, he's actually been showcasing them to judges (and, by extension, to competitors). The reason? If judges see the snowboard tricks in action without knowing more about their technical difficulty, they are more likely to mark them lower
The Myth of Efficiency
Everyone talks about the need for innovation these days, but they especially talk about why businesses are so bad at it. Procter & Gamble recently reduced the washing power of Tide, labeled the new version "Basic," and trumpeted it as an innovation. If that's the best we can do, no wonder there's such concern. A recent report from the Doblin Group claims that 96% of innovation resources are focused on incremental improvements. The best-selling book Blue Ocean Strategy claims that only 14% of innovations are "radical," and that those few radical innovations produce 61% of profits.
Suggestion Schemes are the engine for your Innovation « BQF Innovation
Siemens Automation and Drives. There are no forms and no paperwork. The intranet application has just four screens – entering the idea, evaluating, accepting or rejecting and implementing. Every manager acts as an evaluator. Payments are made in the form of vouchers to a value of around $80 on acceptance of the idea. They have found that small rewards and recognition on acceptance are a better incentive than larger rewards delayed until implementation.
Another interesting aspect of the Siemens scheme is that they publish league tables of ideas implemented by department with awards for the most successful departments. Managers are incentivised to accept and implement ideas.
Press Release_InventionMachine_SMB Innovation Demands
BOSTON, Nov. 10, 2009 - Invention Machine, a leading provider of innovation software, today announced the expansion of its reseller program to meet the growing demand for Invention Machine Goldfire by small and midsize manufacturers. The company is offering its innovation software to small and medium businesses (SMBs) through its reseller channel. New resellers that have joined Invention Machine’s global roster to specifically help SMBs accelerate and sustain product innovation include Alignex, Boundary Systems, BRT Solutions, Designfusion and NovaQuest.
Lean Innovation and Idea Management: Idea Management: How ideas crash.
My personal recommendation, when engaging in the ideation process and the development of an idea, especially when using idea management software, is that a core requirement of collaborating require that for every flawed aspect of an idea that is pointed out, a positive one is too. The positive one can address a separate aspect of the idea, or perhaps propose a way of mitigating the identified flaw. This helps keep the balance equal or in favor of the positive aspects, but also opens the opportunity to constructively address the flaws.
ACM: Ubiquity - Where ideas collide, innovation happens
Failure, Johansson maintains, seems a necessary element in eventual innovative success. Not even the most creative geniuses succeed on their first and every effort, and an environment intended to encourage innovation should be prepared to reward creative failure as a necessary cost. He admits that rewarding failure is not an easy practice to explain to a manager and offers an explanation and some tactical suggestions. In fact, he cites a couple of studies that suggest that offering explicit Skinnerian rewards for success may dampen creativity. Other behaviors he sees as contributing to successful creativity include breaking away from the network of associates and ties that link one to directional pursuits, taking risks, and confronting fear — especially the fear of failure.
Insights of a Catalyst in Alignment & Innovation: 40 years, 20 million ideas: The Toyota suggestion system
During its first year (1951) there were 789 suggestions and awards totaling $2638. Both the quantity and quality of the suggestions were rather low. One reason apparently was that the employees thought “creative ideas” must be something like “big inventions”. Consequently, Shoichi Saito, father of the creative idea suggestion system, started emphasizing quantity and efforts were made to increase the number of suggestions.
Lencioni: Arguing for Innovation | Working Knowledge ®
As Patrick Lencioni, speaking at the 2009 World Business Forum said, “productive debate over issues is good for a team.” Disagreeing on issues make things uncomfortable but it builds clarity. “If you don’t have conflict on a team, you don’t get commitment,” Lencioni said. “If people don’t weigh in, they won’t buy in.” When team members challenge assumptions and point out the flaws of an idea, they improve the idea; the end result is a more robust idea.
Understanding Corporate Innovation - Forbes.com
Most organizations go through a natural progression when they turn their attention to improving innovation. First they say, "We need more new products and services," and they work to invent and acquire them. Then they realize they can institutionalize processes to quicken revenue-generating innovation. Then a big "aha" happens, when they realize it's not just about products and services, that new business value can come from anywhere in the organization.
Not your ordinary suggestion box
There's a new way to give the City of Manor suggestions for improvement, but it's not by putting a slip of paper into a box.
Last week, city officials launched an innovative version of the suggestion box. Manor Labs is the city's user-driven research-and-development division located online at manorlabs.org, where city staff members, residents — anyone — can submit ideas and solutions for the city's betterment.
Those suggestions can be tracked, reviewed, rated, commented on and even changed by other participants.
White House CTO: IT Is Part Of 'Federal Government Fabric' - Government - IT Channel News by CRN
"More money has been spent on trying to fix claims benefits than you can ever imagine. The president issued a simple challenge. Listen to the 19,000 frontline [veterans claims] workers and ask for their ideas. Two weeks later we had an idea management portal up and within another two weeks, 12,000 of 19,000 employees had registered and played in the system," Chopra said.
Users can comment and rank their ideas and the top 15 will get to present them in Washington, he said. "We'll do our best to execute on them," he said. "Normally, you'd think of that as a big ERP implementation that takes a long time. But it's not that at all."
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