Idea Architects

DECEMBER 5, 2011

custom-designing keynotes, workshops, and leadership conferences that promote innovation, learning, and community. Leadership Limerick: Innovation Requires Many Contributions. The former makes too many people think they have know role to play, that only some people are creative enough to be considered innovators. Dec 2006 (3).

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NOVEMBER 29, 2011

Change Your Organization. Then I’ll talk about the framework we came up with for changing your organization from the inside out so that it can be more compatible with the true power of social media. Then we’ll talk a little about the kind of change that is required to make that happen in your organization.

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Jamie Notter

APRIL 24, 2012

And it’s not change that people resist in organizations. But that is a small piece of what we face when we’re changing things in organizations. Moneyball and Management Innovation. The Results of Management Innovation. Want Innovation? December 2006 (10). November 2006 (9). July 2006 (5).

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Jamie Notter

DECEMBER 12, 2011

I suppose that sounds obvious, but when I talk to people about changing the way they lead and manage organizations, I’m not so sure it’s that obvious. He has an awesome case study of an organization that literally operates without a centralized cadre of managers to run things. Moneyball and Management Innovation.

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Jamie Notter

OCTOBER 3, 2011

The second element in our Trellis for human organizations is trustworthy. It’s unfortunately not a word we associate with organizations too frequently. We expect organizations to spin us, to withhold information, to be fake–whatever it takes to get a sale. Creating More Human Organizations. December 2006 (10).

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Jamie Notter

JANUARY 31, 2012

This weekend I taught a three-hour session on Systems to students in Georgetown’s Organization Development and Change Leadership Certificate program. The different parts of the system in many organizations spend a lot of time in this dance. Moneyball and Management Innovation. The Results of Management Innovation.

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JUNE 13, 2012

These are heavy hitters, and they can all talk about serious management innovation. MIX stands for Management Innovation Exchange. Changing the way we manage and lead organizations works. Creating More Human Organizations. Moneyball and Management Innovation. December 2006 (10). November 2006 (9).

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Jamie Notter

APRIL 9, 2012

Courage is one of the four human elements–arguably the hardest one for organizations to master. We are arguing that we need more courageous organizations. And we’d be able to talk to other people in the organization about the failure (because it wouldn’t have that stigma attached to it). December 2006 (10).

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Jamie Notter

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

The thesis of our book is that organizations need to be more human. Social media has been succeeding very specifically because it taps into what makes us human, and our organizations seem very stuck in a machine-based worldview that is letting us down. We’re not giving you something you can copy or replicate in your organization.

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Jamie Notter

OCTOBER 21, 2011

“We Are Not Machines” makes the basic argument for creating more human organizations, which is quite different from the organizations we have today that were based on the machine model. That mindset holds firmly today as we have organizations with chains of command, units, divisions, silos, directors, outputs, etc.

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Jamie Notter

JULY 19, 2012

The organization is not real. You don’t do things for the organization. what we do better than anything is set people up for failure in organizations. It’s management’s job to innovate itself. Innovation is done in a place where people work face to face. Innovation all the time panel.

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The Hourglass Blog

AUGUST 1, 2011

The Season of Innovation. Thats certainly what it feels like with the ASAE Annual Meeting next week and the WSAE-sponsored National Summit on Association Innovation five short weeks after that. Many of our organizations face common challenges. Labels: Innovation , Jeff De Cagna , WSAE. Innovation. Image source.

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Jamie Notter

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

In Chapter 3 of Humanize , we make the case that organizations, in general, are not adapting fast enough to our changing times. I am afraid it is all too easy to demonstrate problems and holes with status quo thinking and practice in organizations. He notes that organizations have stories about themselves. December 2006 (10).

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Jamie Notter

DECEMBER 1, 2011

It’s called Predictable Success: Getting Your Organization on the Growth Track–And Keeping It There. They revolve around an understanding of the different stages organizations go through in their growth. But he really zeroes in on some points that I also think are critical, like ownership, risk-taking, and innovation.

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Jamie Notter

MAY 7, 2012

In it, I talk about the deep problems we have with the way we run today’s organizations (like how we haven’t seen significant innovation in management in over fifty years), and contrast that with the incredible growth of social media. The People-Centric Organization. Changing Your Organization from the Inside Out.

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Jamie Notter

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

In creating a more courageous organization, the cultural aspect is “learning.” Creating More Human Organizations. Moneyball and Management Innovation. The Results of Management Innovation. December 2006 (10). November 2006 (9). October 2006 (8). September 2006 (10). July 2006 (5).

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The Hourglass Blog

APRIL 21, 2011

Learning Innovation from the Mayo Clinic. Heres another great HBR post describing another set of "principles of innovation." I say "another," of course, because of my work with the WSAE Innovation Task Force, where we helped define four key principles of innovation from the case studies we examined in the for-profit sector.

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Jamie Notter

FEBRUARY 9, 2012

Creating More Human Organizations. Moneyball and Management Innovation. The Results of Management Innovation. December 2006 (10). November 2006 (9). October 2006 (8). September 2006 (10). August 2006 (12). July 2006 (5). June 2006 (9). May 2006 (9). April 2006 (8).

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Jamie Notter

OCTOBER 5, 2011

Fear is kind of a big deal in organizations. Drucker and Deming have both written about driving fear out of organizations. So human organizations need to be courageous. What does that mean for organizations? It’s a building block of learning (and innovation). Creating More Human Organizations.

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Jamie Notter

JUNE 28, 2012

Creating More Human Organizations. Moneyball and Management Innovation. The Results of Management Innovation. Splash: Refreshment For Your Small-Staff Organization » Blog Archive » Friday Top Five: Trust and Brainstorming. Next post: Want Innovation? December 2006 (10). November 2006 (9).

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Jamie Notter

MARCH 2, 2012

Anyway, on Tuesday I did a session on Humanize , and after the session someone came up to me and asked, “So if you had to convince a management team to make their organization more human, could you boil it down to one thing? We want our organizations to be “nimble.” We need better organizations. July 2006 (5).

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Jamie Notter

JUNE 21, 2012

Most were in agreement that there was great power available in the periphery of our organizations, we just needed to figure out how to set that power free. Interestingly, however, the responsibility I am thinking of here exists more at the center of the organization than at the periphery. Creating More Human Organizations.

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Jamie Notter

AUGUST 16, 2011

Twitter started as a platform for sending text messages within an organization but grew into much more than that. But organizations…not so much. This is a problem in today’s economy, and that’s why Maddie and I argue that human organizations need to be generative. Creating More Human Organizations.

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Jamie Notter

APRIL 30, 2012

The title of my talk is “Unlocking the Power of Human Organizations.” I’ll do two sessions there, the first covering the basic arguments in Humanize , and then the second digging a little more deeply into how you can start to make change in your organization. Creating More Human Organizations. October 2006 (8).

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Jamie Notter

OCTOBER 4, 2011

This is, quite simply, the capacity to include difference in your organization. Easier said than done, yet critical for innovation and becoming more human as an organization. ” Generative organizations will also fine tune their processes to maximize collaboration. Creating More Human Organizations.

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Jamie Notter

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

Interestingly, the item with one of the smallest gaps was innovation in products, services, and ideas. And note that we think the treatment of customers and employees is actually MORE important than innovative products. Humanize: How People-centric Organizations Succeed in a Social World takes on the topic of trust in great detail.

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Jamie Notter

MAY 25, 2012

We want YOU to actually start humanizing your organization. Now we are adding another resource: The “How Human is Your Organization” quiz. It is for individuals who work in organizations (at any level). Creating More Human Organizations. Moneyball and Management Innovation. December 2006 (10).

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Jamie Notter

JULY 18, 2012

Creating More Human Organizations. Previous post: The Results of Management Innovation. December 2006 (10). November 2006 (9). October 2006 (8). September 2006 (10). August 2006 (12). July 2006 (5). June 2006 (9). May 2006 (9). April 2006 (8). March 2006 (9).

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Jamie Notter

APRIL 5, 2012

Let me go out on a limb and suggest that most organizations are not very good at that. That’s why we struggle with collaborating with external organizations (though we ofte pay lip-service to that). Take a look at the places in your organization where people are (supposedly) collaborating. image credit. Related Posts.

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Jamie Notter

JUNE 7, 2012

Would your organization do that? Comfort with failure is a critical piece of a human organization. So take a look at your organization’s culture and be honest with how comfortable you are with failure. How open is your organization with what it is learning from these failures? Creating More Human Organizations.

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Jamie Notter

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

The way we manage our organizations is very stuck. For some of our practices, it’s been over 100 years since they have seen any innovation. The rest of the book, of course, talks about how we can create more human organizations moving forward. Creating More Human Organizations. Moneyball and Management Innovation.

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Jamie Notter

MARCH 9, 2012

It is an economy in which the driving force is innovation. It is an economy in which organizations are nimble and agile and continually offering new value to customers and delivering it sooner. Innovation, nimble, continually offering new value, trust…sound familiar? They are not organized for continuous innovation.

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The Hourglass Blog

NOVEMBER 14, 2010

Innovation = Creativity x Execution. This is a fantastic post on innovation from Vijay Govindarajan , co-author of the new book, The Other Side of Innovation: Solving the Execution Challenge. Companies tend to focus far more attention on improving the front end of the innovation process, the creativity. Its excellent.

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Jamie Notter

MAY 11, 2012

I think it’s more likely that our organizations are succeeding despite the way we manage them, not because of it. Moneyball and Management Innovation. The Results of Management Innovation. Want Innovation? Too many people/organizations/institutions think of strategic planning as an end rather than a means to an end.

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The Hourglass Blog

JUNE 5, 2011

Real-World Innovation for Associations. I accepted an invitation from a national professional society to present the information we have developed on innovation in associations at their Board retreat, and help them determine how it applied to them and what specific steps they should take.

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Jamie Notter

MAY 16, 2012

I used an example in his book during my session that delved into some detail about how you humanize your organization (more on that in another post). But in my first presentation, I made the point that many organizations fall short when it comes to clarity. I think we need more discipline in our organizations. November 2006 (9).

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The Hourglass Blog

MAY 21, 2011

The Innovation Problem for Associations. “ Six Design Principles for Business-Model Innovation ” provides association executives with his usual thought-provoking push into territories we should really be spending more of our time in—but often don’t. The innovation problem for associations is not about process.

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