Can a culture of change improve innovation? — from washingtonpost.com by Jim Whitehurst, president and chief executive officer, Red Hat
Excerpts:
Plenty of executives lay awake at night wondering how they can keep up with the waves of digital disruption that continue to shake every industry out there. Everyone wants to know how they can get their organization to innovate better and faster.
But this is more than a technology problem. Businesses can’t simply buy a solution off the shelf. Instead, leaders need to encourage people to think and act differently. And to do that, they need to rethink the way they organize to get work done.
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But the pace of digital transformation today has made Industrial Era thinking and planning obsolete when it comes to overcoming the challenges an organization faces.
Automation requires processes to change; digital transformation requires people to change.
We’re talking about building an organizational culture that embraces innovative thinking and behaviors. But you can’t change culture overnight, because it’s an output, not an input.
1. Planning must be replaced by configuring for constant change…
2. Prescription must be replaced by enablement…
3. Execution must be replaced by engagement…
Organizations today need to spend less time charting long-term courses and more time fostering teams configured to respond effectively to constant change.
From DSC:
That last quote reminds me of the need for more TrimTab Groups within higher education:
