The wind of change sweeping our organizations, we feel like the old paradigms of management fall one after another, and as sectors and companies disappear behind them.
The type of hierarchical functional organization leadership styles based on command and control is not dead, is omnipresent in our society. But it will kill businesses and organizations that are not able to adapt to the new agenda that marks the brutal need for innovation in our environment.
Speed, flexibility, organizational skills online are some of the new features of the new organizations that some organizations have hit 2.0 baptize. or organizations with innovative capacity.
Do we allow the change I rolled our organizations, we must not allow our competitors we mark the way Can We lead innovation?
But how to convert old and slow organizations fast and flexible organizations?
1 – Allocates 10% to the future. Measures the time employees spend processing. The transformation requires resources, nothing is free. How long does it act in the future your organization? What are the challenges of your industry? The 10% is a guideline, perhaps most, very competitive environments (information technology, SI, ..) require more. It is not credible to do something without resources Do you measure how destinaras the future?
2 – Find ideas, the bricks with which to build the future. Nothing is more valuable than an idea, these are the ones that allow you to survive, succeed or disappear. Someone outside your company conspires against your business and are looking to improve processes that improve the productivity of your competitors, products that make you out of the market, new ways of staying with your customers. Think how you will collect the ideas in your organization? How do you prioritize? And how will you do they are big and multiply?
3 – Look leaders, change agents, the protagonists of innovation: ideas have little value unless it can become reality and that requires transformational leaders, intrapreneurs, to fight for the ideas that will give your organization success, nothing has more value than someone who knows the art of transforming ideas into reality. Do you located? Are you prepared for it? Do top managers are agents of change?
4 – Create an organizational infrastructure projects: Ideas and resources require leaders organized in projects, a kind of parallel organization. The hierarchical functional organization manages the results of the present that can achieve the results that keep the organization alive. The projects help build the organization to get the results of the future.
5 – Dota intelligence 2.0. to your organization, hiperconectala: need hyperconnected organizations that create new ideas, make them grow, enrich, make the change to be understood, to go faster, which ensures that the speed can only collaboration to change and remove the resistor. The new 2.0 tools. are innovation accelerators allow keep up in competitive environments fast.
6 – Create a systematic change management: Why do we need experts in change management? Why most transformation projects are doomed to failure. Why madness undergo change by transformation projects organizations the places becomes humanly unbearable if not properly lead. Leading change requires to be skilled in transformation and change Do your managers and change agents are experts in change management?
7 – Create a Culture Innovative 2.0.: Beyond the projects, beyond the change agents and their ability to use hand tools you need to ensure that your organization will respond appropriately, you need to ensure your Culture adopt changes quickly, which makes innovation possible. In some cultures it is very difficult innovative creativity and innovation, has a high mortality among change agents and a high failure Culture Is ready for change? Do managers create these new cultural forms? Will the new values such as transparency, accountability, collaboration are the foundations of success?
Our organizations are getting old, why not progressing quickly management of time, why paradigms managers stayed behind with melancholy longing for the days when everything was easier.
The new organizations require new values and enhancing techniques in which these 7 steps are based and they are not easy to implement. But probably the most complex part is that the organization understands the urgency of the new paradigm of flexibility and speed, to create an innovative organization:
Mortal sin business, the most obscene, the most precarious and horror will bring to our societies is slow to innovate. No good companies slow, since die
Create innovative organizations requires passion, a strong conviction that everything we do should be changed if it does not allow our organizations are fast. The belief that this will bring him success only if we align the talent, manage change and have the intuition to succeed in the changes we propose. These seven clavess should be extremely useful for this, but only if you start fast … Well if you do not know the countdown has begun, Do not stand listening to the sweet voice of the past!.
