Good articles on the art of management don't come along every day, but that doesn't mean those of us here at your friendly IT Management blog ever stop looking. And sometimes, it even pays off.
Gary Hamel has an article on management innovation on the
Harvard Business Review site (available as an 18-page PDF for $6). The biggest challenge to innovation, he says, is generating truly unique ideas. But he identifies four components that can help:
- a big problem that demands fresh thinking
- creative principles, or paradigms that can reveal new approaches
- an evaluation of the conventions that constrain novel thinking
- examples and analogies that help redefine what can be done.
If you don't want to shell out the $6,
Christian Sarkar has a pretty good rundown of what you're missing, including a list of a dozen of the most noteworthy management innovations from 1900 to 2000.
Sorry to be such a tease.
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