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Your Fifth Step Toward Creating an Innovative Climate: Engage
Does it get any better than this? If you’ve been following the steps in this blog series, you now have caring and trusted employees. You have people giving you input and you have a mechanism for applying their intellectual bandwidth to illuminate the best way forward for your business. You have a bunch of new things to consider, based on the ranking of ideas generated by caring and trusted [...]
Simplifying System Architecture and Reducing the Technology Stack Improves System Performance, Maintenance, and Security
A compelling example of how simplifying system architecture can provide significant operational improvements is a monitoring system used on U.S. Navy submarines. Over the last three years, Rite-Solutions has radically re-architected the system's design and reduced the technology stack to better meet the Navy’s needs, including: Reduce system maintenance costs Improve the system’s ability to add new technologies and new capabilities Increase the speed with which information is provided [...]
Your Fourth Step Toward Creating an Innovative Climate: Listen
(Don't mess this part up!) In the meaningful relationship puzzle, you (the leader) have everything to gain and everything to lose. If you invest the time to implement an Ask program (the third step) without simultaneously implementing a Listen program, you have wasted your time. Employees will quickly decide to not spend their intellectual energy to help you. This does not mean that you have to take action on [...]
The Top 5 Reasons You Need a Structured Content System
As you hang up the phone, you immediately start planning the presentation you were just asked to give. You think about the material you need to pull together from all the different sources. You scour the network looking for company background text that Corporate Communications approved for external use. You learn the product specs featured on slides 13 to 17 are out of date. The creative file-naming structure Marketing [...]
Your Third Step Toward Creating an Innovative Climate: Ask
(It’s simple to do and costs you nothing!) Continuing with our blog series on Creating an Innovative Climate, here’s where you are: Your employees now care about their company, and you’ve been bold enough to trust them with what you were thinking would happen, how it might happen and how you are doing against your original plan. The stage is now set for you to expand the intellectual bandwidth being [...]