{"id":640358,"date":"2013-01-28T13:00:57","date_gmt":"2013-01-28T18:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/serkadis.com\/index\/?guid=6ffefdf4029fdafc4f111a4385d0e3d7"},"modified":"2013-01-28T10:58:24","modified_gmt":"2013-01-28T15:58:24","slug":"the-people-who-practice-everyday-everywhere-innovation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/640358","title":{"rendered":"The People Who Practice Everyday, Everywhere Innovation"},"content":{"rendered":"

As human beings, we are born with a creative impulse, with an innate desire to use our imagination to better the world around us. Yet, all too often, our organizations end up being less innovative than the people within them. The dozens of in-the-trenches innovators who responded to our Innovating Innovation Challenge <\/a> embody the first assertion and are working relentlessly and fearlessly to overturn the second.<\/p>\n

We asked for real-world case studies and bold new ideas that will help us make innovation a deep-rooted, systematic competence in every kind of organization. In other words, how do we make innovation more of a natural act and less of a happy accident?<\/p>\n

Of course, that’s easier said than done. The disciplines of management were invented, more than a hundred years ago, to drive variety out of organizations. The goal was to excise the irregularities, in an effort to ensure conformance to work rules, quality standards, timetables and budgets. Today, though, it’s the irregular people with their irregular ideas and irregular methods who create the irregular successes and profits. All too often, the quest to routinize the irregular ends up squelching innovation. The goal? Organizations that are paragons of penny-pinching efficiency and bastions of rule-busting innovation. <\/p>\n

We received more than 140 entries from a diverse group of thinkers, practitioners and experimenters from around the world in pursuit of that goal. The judges and the MIX editorial team pored over the stories and hacks looking for depth, boldness, originality, clarity, and the ability to inspire and instruct in equal measure. We found those qualities in abundance — and are delighted, along with our partners at Harvard Business Review and McKinsey & Company, to announce 24 finalists (in alphabetical order):<\/p>\n

Don’t Use Your New Innovation Project to Change Your Business Model — Build On What You Do Well and Ensure Your Success<\/a>
\nHack by Jean Angus, Saint-Gobain\t<\/p>\n

Managing for 21st Century Crime Prevention in Memphis<\/a>
\nStory by Toney Armstrong, Memphis Police Department<\/p>\n

Democratizing Entrepreneurship: Village Capital’s Peer Selection Model<\/a>
\nStory by Ross Baird, Village Capital\t<\/p>\n

iMentors — Innovation belts spreading innovation within the organization<\/a>
\nStory by Jo\u00e3o Manuel Brito Martins, co-authored by Jose Alberto de Oliveira Pereira, EDP Brazil<\/p>\n

Keeping the Start-Up Spirit Alive at Red Gate<\/a>
\nStory by Alice Chapman, Red Gate Software<\/p>\n

Shell GameChanger — A Safe Place to Get Crazy Ideas Started <\/a>
\nStory by Russ Conser, co-authored by Hans Haringa, Henk Mooiweer and Wim Schinkel, Shell<\/p>\n

Case Coelce — Inspiring Innovation for Traditional Work Environments <\/a>
\nStory by Luiz De Gonzaga Coelho Junior, co-authored by Odailton Arruda, Coelce<\/p>\n

Fail Forward<\/a>
\nStory by Ashley Good, Engineers Without Borders Canada\t<\/p>\n

Making Innovation part of the DNA<\/a>
\nStory by Jens Hauglum, co-Authored by Bente Mari Kristiansen, Bj\u00f8rn Henrik Vangstein and Eyvind A. Larre, FINN.no<\/p>\n

Blank Checks: Unleashing the Potential of People and Businesses <\/a>
\nHack by Sanjay Khosla, Mondelez, co-authored by Mohanbir Sawhney, Kellogg School of Management<\/p>\n

Sustainability as Innovation Strategy: How Sustainability and Innovation Drive Each Other and Company Competitiveness at Danone<\/a>
\nStory by Monica Kruglianskas, Danone, co-authored by Marc Vilanova, ESADE Business School<\/p>\n

Innovation as a Business: How to Create a Repeatable and Sustainable Innovation Engine<\/a>
\nStory by Lawrence Lee, PARC<\/p>\n

Transforming Corporate Culture through Pervasive Innovation at KT <\/a>
\nStory by Misook Lim, Korea Telecom<\/p>\n

Democratise Innovation — for sustained Innovation culture<\/a>
\nStory by Lalgudi Ramanathan Natarajan, Titan Industries<\/p>\n

Whirlpool’s Innovation Journey: An on-going quest for a rock-solid and inescapable innovation capability<\/a>
\nStory by Moises Norena, Whirlpool<\/p>\n

Unleashing Inclusive Innovation at Cisco<\/a>
\nStory by Kate O’Keeffe, co-authored by John Marsland, Carlos Pignataro and Lisa Voss, Cisco<\/p>\n

Global solutions, local failure — Overcoming barriers in implementing open innovation<\/a>
\nHack by Frank Piller, co-authored by Patrick Pollok, David Antons and Dirk L\u00fcttgens, RWTH Aachen University<\/p>\n

Project Bushfire — Focussing the might of an entire Organization on the Consumer & Customer<\/a>
\nStory by Stephen Remedios, The Stephen Remedios Company, co-authored by Aswath Venkataraman, Sandeep Ramesh, Shruti Kashyap and Shashwat Sharma, Hindustan Unilever<\/p>\n

21st Century Play Dates: How USC Annenberg’s Innovation Lab brings together diverse communities to provoke innovation <\/a>
\nStory by Susan Resnick West, co-authored by Erin Reilly and Jake de Grazia, USC Annenberg School<\/p>\n

Innovation is not coincidence; it is built systematically every day and everyone can take part in it <\/a>
\nStory by \u00d3scar F. Rodr\u00edguez, Banco Davivienda<\/p>\n

Is managed innovation an oxymoron?<\/a>
\nStory by Kumar Sachidanandam, Cognizant<\/p>\n

Crafting one of the world’s largest ideapreneurship — seeding a grassroots revolution in service innovation<\/a>\t
\nStory by Pranay Shah Singh, co-authored by Puneet Ramaul and Annu Talwar, HCL Technologies<\/p>\n

“Ever Forward” Extreme Makeover — DPR Construction Rebuilds their Continuous Improvement Process from the Foundation Up<\/a>
\nStory by Dan Tran, DPR Construction<\/p>\n

Innotribe — a tribe of innovators in the financial industry <\/a>
\nStory by Peter Vander Auwera, SWIFT<\/p>\n

Please check out the finalist stories and hacks<\/a> and add your comments and ratings ̬ they’ll make a difference as finalists update and build on their entries for final judging. We’ll announce the winners of the challenge here the week of February 11th.<\/p>\n

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