Alan G. Robinson, Dean M. Schroeder

The Idea-Driven Organization

Unlocking the Power in Bottom-Up Ideas [Large Print 16 Pt Edition]

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Most companies, if they solicit employee ideas at all, essentially just set up a suggestion box, which employees know from experience is where ideas go to die. So nothing happens. But innovation is not an option - it's the key to survival. And innovation needs new ideas. So where are those ideas going to come from? Using numerous examples, Robinson and Schroeder argue that the employees who interact directly with your customers, make your products, and provide your services are in the best position to see where problems exist and what improvements and new offerings would have the most impact. Robinson and Schroeder explain how leaders can build the kind of idea - driven company capable of implementing fifty to a hundred or more ideas per employee per year. Drawing on their work with companies worldwide, they show what's needed to put together a management team open to grassroots innovation and describe the strategies, policies, and practices that encourage - and those that discourage - employee ideas. They detail exactly how high - performing idea processes work and how to design one customized for your organization - including advice for teaching people how to come up with new ideas. The best ideas may come from the bottom, but they have to be systematically solicited from the top.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: ReadHowYouWant
• Seitenzahl: 326
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. März 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 557g
• ISBN-13: 9781038727220
• ISBN-10: 1038727227
• Artikelnr.: 70280269

Autorenporträt

Alan G. Robinson is a professor at the Isenberg School of Management of the University of Massachusetts Amherst. He has served on the board of examiners of the United States Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award. His research into the best and worst practices in continuous improvement has won a number of awards and has taken him into organizations in many countries around the world. He has advised more than sixty organizations in some ten countries on how to improve their creativity. Dean M. Schroeder currently serves as the associate dean and director of graduate programs in management and is the Herbert and Agnes Schulz Professor of Management at Valparaiso University in Northwest Indiana. He has served on the board of examiners of the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, is on the board of directors of the American Creativity Association, and has served on several corporate boards.

Inhaltsangabe

PREFACE:
CHAPTER 1: the Power in front-line ideas
The Clarion-Stockholm Hotel
The Impact of Front-Line Ideas: The 80/20 Principle
Creating an Idea-Driven Organization
Why Are Idea-Driven Organizations So Rare?
Realigning the Organization for Ideas
Effective Idea Processes
Getting More and Better Ideas
Idea Systems and Innovativeness
CHAPTER 2: A DIFFERENT KIND OF LEADERSHIP
Why Leaders Are Often Blind to Front-line Ideas
Fighting Back
Key Points
CHAPTER 3: ALIGNING THE ORGANIZATION TO BE IDEA-DRIVEN: STRATEGY, STRUCTURE AND GOALS
Strategy and Goal Alignment
Structuring For Ideas
Key Points
CHAPTER 4: ALIGNING THE ORGANIZATION TO BE IDEA-DRIVEN: MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS
Budgeting and Resourcing the Idea Process
Aligning Policies and Rules
Aligning Processes and Procedures
Aligning Evaluation and Reward Systems
Conclusion
Key Points
CHAPTER 5: HOW EFFECTIVE IDEA PROCESSES WORK
The Kaizen Teian Process
Team-Based Processes
Facilitation
Escalation
The Electronic Suggestion Box Trap
Key Points
CHAPTER 6: IMPLEMENTing A HIGH-PERFORMING IDEA SYSTEM
Step 1. Ensure The Leadership Understands That A High-Performing Idea System Is A Long-Term Initiative To Create Significant Strategic Capabilities
Step 2. Form and train the team that will design and implement the system
Step 3. Assess the organization from an idea-management perspective
Step 4. Design the idea system
Step 5. Start correcting misalignments
Step 6. Conduct a pilot test
Step 7. Assess the pilot results, make adjustments, and prepare for the launch
Step 8. Roll out the system organization-wide
Step 9. Continue to improve the system.
Key Points
CHAPTER 7: HOW TO GET MORE AND BETTER IDEAS
Problem-Finding
Creating a Problem-Sensitive Organization
Key Points
CHAPTER 8: FRONT-LINE IDEAS AND INNOVATION
Innovations Often Need Front-Line Ideas to Work
Front-line Ideas Create Capabilities That Enable Innovations
Front-line Ideas Can Transform Routine Innovations into Major Breakthroughs
Front-Line Ideas Can Open Up New Opportunities for Innovation
Setting Up an Idea System Removes Many of the Barriers to Innovation
Bringing It All Together
Conclusion
Key Points
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index
About the Authors

Rezensionen

The Idea-Driven Organization is so reasonable that the magnitude of its change message is easy to miss. The richness of the examples from all over the world make it fun to read, and the authors convincingly demonstrate the power of incorporating frontline thinking into your organization.
Marshall Goldsmith, author of the New York Times bestsellers Mojo and What Got You Here Won t Get You There

As leaders, we need to create an environment that effectively draws employee ideas out and empowers implementation. The Idea-Driven Organization provides a practical map on how to get there.
Jeff Nagel, CEO, NBTY Inc.

Robinson and Schroeder have written a manifesto that might very well spark a revolution. They show us how the ideas generated by the knowledge and creativity of frontline employees can help any organization, large or small, public or private, become more efficient, more productive, more innovative. I say let the revolution begin!
Stan Rosenberg, Massachusetts Senate Majority Leader

All outcomes measures are influenced by one critical factor: the number of employee ideas implemented by the frontline employees themselves. Alan Robinson and Dean Schroeder present research findings in many companies and industries that clearly confirm this but also explain how great leaders make it happen.
John Toussaint, former CEO, ThedaCare, and author of On the Mend and Potent Medicine

The idea-driven organization is one that steadfastly listens to its people to ensure the organization remains safe, responsible, productive, and continuously improving. Robinson and Schroeder provide an insightful guide for leaders who are vested in engaging the minds of their frontline employees.
Kevin S. Crutchfield, Chairman and CEO, Alpha Natural Resources

No one has captured the rationale and how-tos for achieving business results through frontline involvement as elegantly and convincingly as Schroeder and Robinson have. Learning how to unleash the significant power of ideas is quite possibly the most important leadership skill needed today.
Karen Martin, author of The Outstanding Organization

The Idea-Driven Organization does not focus on some consultant-created magic formula but offers practical concepts for promoting employee ideas that you can read and implement on your own. This book is indispensable for any leader who wants to truly engage his or her employees.
Corey Rosen, PhD, founder and former Executive Director, National Center for Employee Ownership

The Idea-Driven Organization is an exciting book that makes a compelling case for a simple but very powerful concept business leaders who learn how to leverage the know-how and ideas of their frontline people will have a major winning edge because most of their competitors either don t get it or don t know how to do it. The detailed and provocative case examples are a major strength of the book they show how business leaders can put ideas into action by tapping the expertise in their own organization.
Lee Bolman, coauthor of Reframing Organizations

We re at the end of the age of being able to do more with less based on tired old management models and thinking. To thrive in the new era, organizations will need to be idea driven. Fortunately, Robinson and Schroeder have written a must-read guide for leaders looking to make this transformation.
Chip R. Bell, coauthor of Managing Knock Your Socks Off Service and Managers as Mentors

"The Idea-Driven Organization is a challenge to the dominant paradigm of 'Manager Knows Best', replacing it with a more balanced program of top-directed but bottom-driven initiative to keep creativity and productivity flowing. It is no less than a call for a complete house cleaning from physical and spatial relationships, to organization and information flows, and to changing the mindsets of employees and management alike! Required reading in an increasingly globalized and competitive world."
Dean Cycon, Founder and CEO, Dean s Beans Organic Coffee Company and winner of a 2013 Oslo Business for Peace award and the United Nations Women s Empowerment Principles Leadership Award for Community Engagement

Robinson and Schroeder have learned from experience the power of people at the front line of the organization actively identifying and solving problems. Building on their previous book, Ideas Are Free, they tell us how to create an environment to encourage the free flow of ideas to become a high performing organization.
Jeffrey K. Liker, PhD, Professor, University of Michigan, and author of The Toyota Way

To succeed in business today, it is absolutely essential that you tap into the ideas, creativity, and innovation of every member of your team. Working with companies around the world, I have seen that one of the greatest roadblocks to their success is a failure to truly get the most possible value from their talent. I am extremely impressed with this book and have recommended it to many of my clients. The authors lay out a superb blueprint, with lots of tools and examples, for creating an idea-driven organization. This is one of those rare must-read books.
John Spence, author of Awesomely Simple