Innovation

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Bill Fischer and Simone Cicero on Haier and the entrepreneurial organisation

...ld economy, home-appliance manufacturer — you know, commodity industry, mature. And yet what’s going on there is extraordinary. So when we talk about innovation…we tend to pay lip service to product and service and business model innovation — and here’s Haier off on the side, doing really organisational innov...more
...And yet what’s going on there is extraordinary. So when we talk about innovation…we tend to pay lip service to product and service and business model innovation — and here’s Haier off on the side, doing really organisational innovation on a consistent basis — as a differentiator. I teach at a business school...more
...ation…we tend to pay lip service to product and service and business model innovation — and here’s Haier off on the side, doing really organisational innovation on a consistent basis — as a differentiator. I teach at a business school [IMD] where most of the participants who come to our programs are managers...more
...risks. **So I think this is really one clear and key aspect of, of the system. B Fischer: And what I think is that everybody wants bottom-up type of innovation because we feel that there’s more energy and people are closer to the customer…and I agree with that. **But what I’ve seen in so many organisations i...more
...most part. So this is a huge advantage. Because I really do believe people come to work at Haier thinking, “What can I do today that would be a small innovation in the way in which we work?” Or, “How can I drive this venture forward?” They’re not all altruistic thinkers, but they’re thinking about, “What can ...more

Ruth, Taryn and Philippa from Mayden, a health tech company that’s Made Without Managers

...ompany based in Bath. We do software, particularly around healthcare services and patient management systems, and we're really excited about data and innovation in this space, and so that's kind of where we occupy a lot of our space and energy. But we're obviously here to talk to you also about how we work he...more
...king and holding the space for that, working very closely with Taryn in that area. And then from there I picked up some different project work around innovation, writing bids for innovation for the organisation, that has now grown into exploring new areas that we'll grow into. I'm currently in our market disc...more
...r that, working very closely with Taryn in that area. And then from there I picked up some different project work around innovation, writing bids for innovation for the organisation, that has now grown into exploring new areas that we'll grow into. I'm currently in our market discovery team. So, that has been...more
...and how we do it. We think that is what gets the best in terms of the best for employees, the best for customers, the best for developing new things, innovation. But we recognise that sometimes that decision making can be slow. And the bigger we are in terms of number of employees, the harder we are finding i...more

Jos de Blok on Buurtzorg and the virtues of humanising, not protocolising

...ging all the time. So just letting people find out what they can do, what new insights they can have, and sharing it with each other creates a lot of innovation - this is kind of assumption. So I've been Director of Innovations in my former job. Then my board asked me: "Oh Jos, we want to have these kinds of...more
...e other way around - we have to understand that when we are developing new ideas, which are helping for example, 30% of our patients, then it's a big innovation. But it has to come from the daily practice. So my idea was that, okay when we create this, when we have these environments, when we have these teams...more
...tain theme. So I'm working a lot with Sharda Nandram and Sharda's professor, and wrote a wonderful book about Buurtzorg, it's called 'Organisational Innovation by Integrating Simplification', developed the integrating simplification theory - so simplifying processes is more important than creating complexity...more

Gary Hamel on busting bureaucracy for good

... but now many do. And our hope is that over time, stakeholders of all sorts, recognising that bureaucratic model is toxic to organisational vitality, innovation growth, are going to start to hold leaders accountable and say, 'how are you doing? Is this going up or going down?'...more
... in other progressive organisations. So I think that's probably the way we're going to have to do this. And the first principle of design thinking or innovation is go to the users. So if you want to build an organisation that unleashes talent in an unprecedented way, go to the users ask them what it's going t...more
...Lisa Gill: So on that note, what do you think we all could do in order to make the next ten years of management innovation more fruitful, or to move in the right direction? Gary Hamel: I think the first and maybe easiest thing to do is if you work at any level in an organ...more

Michael Y. Lee on lessons from researching self-managing organisations

... one works, we're just so used to it, we've just inherited it and we've assumed that that's always been the case, but it's a fairly recent management innovation, and there's not a lot of evidence that it is effective. So it's funny, isn't it? The kind of habit mindset and the fear of anything new or alternati...more

Edwin Jansen on how people adopt self-management at Fitzii

...ecause on the one hand yeah, this there is this very hierarchical, family tradition and caste system, and on the other hand, I see things like Jugaad Innovation and things like that and I guess, Eastern philosophy as well if I look to like China and places like that, in some ways, feels like there's a lot of ...more

Keith McCandless and Henri Lipmanowicz on acting your way into a new kind of organising with Liberating Structures

...o some extent - the reason why this is not really the focus is because people don't know how to do it. And so it needs to be figured out. So there is innovation that is required. It isn't a question of just, you know, doing more of what we have done and just a slightly different mixture - put in a little more...more