A recent post outlined Henry Chesbrough’s call to businesses to refocus from strictly innovating products to seeing themselves as a service provider — including the customer in the process of creation. Chesbrough isn’t the only one calling business leaders towards to look outside of R&D processes when it comes to innovation. Here are examples of organization who are sounding the call for the larger business organization to embrace innovation.
The Management Innovation Exchange (MIX) is an open innovation project aimed at reinventing management for the 21st century. Their premise is that while “modern” management is one of humankind’s most important inventions, it is now a mature technology that must be reinvented for a new age.Current management practices emphasize control, discipline and efficiency above all else — says the MIX site — and that’s a problem. To thrive in the 21st century, organizations must be adaptable, innovative, inspiring and socially accountable. That will require a genuine revolution in management principles and practices.
How about you, do you have any examples to share of how changes in management practices have spurred innovation in your organization? Please share.