Comments on: Tapping the Creativity of All Workers

By: Tapping the Creativity of All Workers at BestBuy | Ted Eytan, MD

Tapping the Creativity of All Workers at BestBuy | Ted Eytan, MD — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 11:29:44 +0000

[...] Tapping the Creativity of All Workers – More interesting happenings at BestBuy – "TagTrade" an electronic stockmarket of employee assessment of management decisions. [...]

By: Daniel Carins

Daniel Carins — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 12:18:00 +0000

I just read about this book in a catalogue:

Creating Knowledge
Innovation Strategies for Designing Urban Landscapes
Hille von Seggern Julia Werner Lucia Grosse-Bachle

Climate change, globalisation, water dynamics and multicultural living are only some of the complex phenomena shaping urban landscape performances today. What does design mean for acting and gaining knowledge in this context? How can innovative design strategies be formulated? What part is played by creativity and understanding?

Starting out from design processes at the STUDIO URBANE LANDSCHAFTEN experts from philosophy, neurobiology, psychology, art and landscape architecture unfold their perspectives of how creativity and understanding are connected. Examples of internationally renowned landscape architecture indicate how closely the production of ideas, design practice and aesthetic expression are bound up with an understanding and investigation of landscape. Creating Knowledge thus formulates a contemporary, interdisciplinary approach of design.

It might be quite interesting in relation to this subject.

By: Ralf Lippold

Ralf Lippold — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 18:09:10 +0000

For employees to put their ideas into play you need a structure of your organization that fosters the exchange of knowledge (partly exchanged in daily stories on what is happening). This will easily lead to further innovations, employee motivation (as they see that their very own ideas are put into play – by themselves in collaboration with others).

Of course the “old” organizational culture where different departments have their very own goals, bosses are trying to handle the work of their own employees, has a hindering effect (even though the physical structure is in place, such as the new BMW Plant in Leipzig, which is a very positive example of what the future of work can look like!).

As managers you have to let go -especially the common idea, that workers should work and not think as that is done by engineers and the “big guys”- in order to adapt towards the future challenges that will definitely come.

A learning organization (of whatever size and branch) is the ultimate goal that we all should work on.

What are your thoughts?

Cheers,

Ralf

By: Elizabeth M

Elizabeth M — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 15:35:22 +0000

I also think that including employees in ways such as this goes a long way toward boosting company morale. It’s a wise move on the part of management to truly encourage their employees to be vocal and respect what they have to say. So many places run on a “need to know” basis, but a little bit of info and inclusion can make people feel like a true part of a company’s heart.