From the course: How to Innovate and Stay Relevant in Times of Change and Uncertainty
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Harness your entire workforce to generate innovative ideas
From the course: How to Innovate and Stay Relevant in Times of Change and Uncertainty
Harness your entire workforce to generate innovative ideas
(upbeat music) - One way of getting innovative ideas is to open of the opportunities to your whole workforce. That will let you benefit from the collective brain power and perspectives of your entire team. However, to do this successfully, you probably need to battle against some of the things that you may have seen as organizational strengths until now. Your company culture, processes and organizational structure are an advantage when it's business as usual. The solidity and standardization they offer are designed to keep the business operating smoothly in times of predictability. But we're not talking about times of predictability here, we're talking about times of change, so they no longer work to our advantage, sadly. Our main tasks for harnessing the workforce will be liberating their thinking and creating the right conditions for success. The first thing I suggest you do is bypass the hierarchy. The standard approval…
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