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Janicem Moderator Posts: 8 |
posted 07-25-2000 10:42
   
Question from LEVERAGE POINTS Issue #2: How does your organization or department stimulate creativity and innovation? Share your "best practices" with other members of the forum. |
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Mark W. McElroy Junior Member Posts: 2 |
posted 07-25-2000 15:57
In most organizations, policies are set by management in hopes of achieving certain desired behavioral outcomes. Innovation is no exception. But what if the behavior is already baked into the system? What if human organizations are already predisposed to innovate? Policies in that case should be designed to support and reinforce existing behaviors of a desrirable kind. Behavior then inspires policy-making as opposed to policy-making being used to drive behavior. This is the essence of the Macroinnovation Method that I have been working on for the past several months. To stimulate and improve organizational innovation, I argue that policies in four specific areas of interest should be cultivated. The accompanying method is experimental, and so comments from others are very welcome. Better yet, early adopters of the adventurous kind are encouraged to contact me. Short of that, visit my web site and tell me what you think (www.macroinnovation.com). Regards, Mark W. McElroy |
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QuaSyLaTic Junior Member Posts: 3 |
posted 07-25-2000 20:45
quote: IMHO and experience, understanding the context and environment is crucial when trying to stimulate Creativity and Innovation. a) For individuals : Understand their needs, e.g. using Maslow's hierarchy of needs. If individuals personal aspiration is high, creativity and innovation become natural, especially if coaching and training are done on the techniques and tools of such thinking. b) For teams or organisation : Understanding the Current Reality, what forces and underlying structures are operating and getting the concerned parties to be in touch with the Realities. That is the first part of the story. The Second, connect the realities with their personal aspiration (or deperation / frustration?). Creativity and Innovation, then, is the manifestation of inner transformation of self, releasing the latent energy within. Does the above make sense to anyone? Regards ------------------ |
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Janicem Moderator Posts: 8 |
posted 08-02-2000 16:27
It's interesting: Both of your responses seem to indicate that rather than seeking to stimulate creativity, we should instead seek to remove barriers that inhibit it. Is that a fair characterization of your perspectives? I was flipping through Tim Gallwey's The Inner Game of Work again today, and was struck by his comments about how most of the constraints on performance exist in our own heads. How can organizations or managers help individuals to get beyond that kind of self-limiting "interference"? Is it in their interests to do so? |
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Mark W. McElroy Junior Member Posts: 2 |
posted 08-04-2000 11:41
Yes, Janice, that's exactly what I'm saying. The behavior of interest is already present in human social systems (best described from a theoretical standpoint by complexity science's so-called complex adaptive systems theory). I'm suggesting, then, that the key to improving or optimizing organizational learning (knowledge-making, diffusion and use) is to pattern our interventions around these behaviors in such a way that they become strengthened and reinforced. In my model, we do that using knowledge-related policies in four specific areas. This is an unvconventional and innovative use of policy-making, since in most cases policies are used as a management tool to shape behavior. In my case, I see behavior shaping policy. [This message has been edited by Mark W. McElroy (edited 08-04-2000).] |
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QuaSyLaTic Junior Member Posts: 3 |
posted 08-07-2000 11:06
quote: It is one perspective to see Creativity / Innovation as removing constraints / obstacles / barries. However such mental models itself does not unleash full Creativity / Innovation energy as there seems to have high mountain to climb, rock to crush before one gets a deeper insights. I see Creativity / Innovation as MAKING THE UN-USUAL CONNECTION, WHICH NO ONE ELSE REALISES BEFORE. In this respect there are so much opportunities as Current Realities are full of variables, components, inclusive our aspiration, mental models, belief systems. Make that un-usual connection as the focus, not barriers or difficulties to overcome or to get rid of. Regards ------------------ |
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