Knowledge brokering is more productively viewed as a structural need than an innovation strategy, tacked onto existing functional processes. As a component of organizational structure, it can obtain the more formal attention it deserves while benefiting from the deeper understanding that other disciplines provide. [...]
Everyone has the innate ability to innovate, create, fail, and adapt if only the rules allow it. Given the proper combinations of elements, reliability and creativity can amplify together, much as reconstituted wood chips form a bond stronger than the original tree. [...]
Maslow transformed marketing. But his Hierarchy of Needs can also instruct organizational structure. [...]
As organizations grow, alternatives exist to mitigate the inefficiencies of departmental hierarchies. Most of them, including adding people, don’t address all the issues. Only embedding staff in multi-disciplinary groups and avoiding the overhead altogether are true solutions. Measurement can also help. [...]
Creativity is not born in a boardroom or a meeting. Brainstorming is vastly over rated. There is nothing quite so laborious and ineffective as ten people sitting in front of a blank page, even if they have a goal in mind. [...]
