Innovating Management
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.
- Put strategically-focused people into decision and influence making positions.
- Help design the organization’s structure, reinvent/innovate roles & responsibilities, to increase multi-discipline knowledge flows, internally and with external partners and provide tools.
- Address organizational cross-functionally and cross-disciplinary challenges
- Train people to develop the competency of applied learning, with reward and recognition.
- Help the organization overcome FEAR -of losing control, the unknown, looking stupid, failing, punishment, peer pressure, etc. through shaping the culture, encouraging the needed leadership and providing some tools to help overcome fear.
How about you, do you have any examples to share of how changes in management practices have spurred innovation in your organization? Please share.
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