Monday
Sep062010
Do we dare ask employees for help?
Monday, September 6, 2010 at 8:30AM
The principle of vividly stating a problem and asking the public for solutions is increasingly being used by governments. It is the same engine driving continuous improvement in successful factories.
Open management of this kind promises big change, and all change causes resistance - Let's hope that the Obama and Cameron governments are successful and opens the way for a new, cooperative, way of solving our challenges. It will not be easy, the Economist wrote that:
"The biggest obstacle in both America and Britain is likely to be the inertia of the bureaucratic, rule-bound public sector. “I can think of 1,000 innovations,” said Mr Goldsmith soon after starting his new job in New York. “I have not yet had an innovative idea in any meeting that was legal.” Governments seem particularly bad at shifting money from old budgets to new ones, which is one reason why the SIF has started with a paltry $50m. Every government agency should be required to put 1% of its budget into innovation funds, argues the Centre for American Progress, a think-tank with strong ties to the Obama administration. The Young Foundation has proposed the same policy in Britain."
In private companies the change starts with the managers, we need to be transparent about challenges and trust both employees, customers and suppliers - It starts and ends with us!
Read more:
In the Economist
Open management of this kind promises big change, and all change causes resistance - Let's hope that the Obama and Cameron governments are successful and opens the way for a new, cooperative, way of solving our challenges. It will not be easy, the Economist wrote that:
"The biggest obstacle in both America and Britain is likely to be the inertia of the bureaucratic, rule-bound public sector. “I can think of 1,000 innovations,” said Mr Goldsmith soon after starting his new job in New York. “I have not yet had an innovative idea in any meeting that was legal.” Governments seem particularly bad at shifting money from old budgets to new ones, which is one reason why the SIF has started with a paltry $50m. Every government agency should be required to put 1% of its budget into innovation funds, argues the Centre for American Progress, a think-tank with strong ties to the Obama administration. The Young Foundation has proposed the same policy in Britain."
In private companies the change starts with the managers, we need to be transparent about challenges and trust both employees, customers and suppliers - It starts and ends with us!
Read more:
In the Economist
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