Ebook: The idea-driven organization: unlocking the power in bottom-up ideas
Author: Robinson Alan G., Schroeder Dean M
- Tags: Corporate culture, Management--Employee participation, Organizational change, Organizational effectiveness, Suggestion systems, Electronic books, Management -- Employee participation
- Year: 2014
- Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
- City: San Francisco;California
- Language: English
- epub
Too many organizations are overlooking, or even suppressing, their single most powerful source of growth and innovation. And it�s right under their noses. The frontline employees who interact directly with your customers, make your products, and provide your services have unparalleled insights into where problems exist and what improvements and new offerings would have the most impact. In this follow-up to their bestseller Ideas Are Free, Alan G. Robinson and Dean M. Schroeder show how to align every part of an organization around generating and implementing employee ideas and offer dozens of examples of what a tremendous competitive advantage this can offer. Their advice will enable leaders to build organizations capable of implementing 20, 50, or even 100 ideas per employee per year. Citing organizations from around the world, they explain what�s needed to put together a management team that can lead the type of organization that embraces grassroots ideas and describe the...