The Busting Bureaucracy Hackathon

Phase 3: Ideas for Busting Bureaucracy (Part 1)

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Ideas for Busting Bureaucracy (Part 1)

In the current phase of the hackathon, we’re asking you to generate an initial set of management hacks—radical yet practical ideas that, through the help of technology, can bust bureaucracy.

To help guide your “hacking,” below are 8 categories describing different attributes of the post-bureaucratic organization, developed by the hackathon community during phase 2.  Please select one or more of these hacking zones and then share a specific idea relevant to your chosen category that could help our organizations bust bureaucracy. We'll be developing the best ideas from each bucket more fully in subsequent phases.  We'll be developing the best ideas from each bucket more fully in subsequent phases.

Click one of the eight categories below to add your idea

 

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Instead of hording control of your budget, allow every employee to have discretionary control (and thereby responsibility) for a slice of the pie. The one area that is the scourge or bane of creativity is that every time you have a crazy idea, you have to run it by the...

By Aaron Anderson on June 8, 2022

An employee is only as autonomous as s/he feels s/he has complete control over her/his own schedule. Instead of bounding work by fixed time schedules (unless required by routinized work, which most management is not), follow the model of the professor. Allow a person to set their own schedule, and...

By Aaron Anderson on June 8, 2022

Processes, procedures and comportments have to proof their value to the business.
Formality may have its benefits, but they have to be made explicit and the value has to be bullet proof. The costs of formality like decreased agility, flexibility, poor customer service, hidden costs etc have to be...

By Erwin Pfuhler on June 8, 2022

Allow ideas to be posted for all, and those most applicable to rise to the top, like sweet cream in the corporate milk. Rate those public solutions by whether or not they actually worked. Then publicize how they were applied, indicating their rating by stars for successes, and bombs for...

By Aaron Anderson on June 8, 2022

In Phase 1 of this hackathon, submitters were asked how bureaucracy makes my job tasks (e.g., submitting an expense report) harder or easier. I cited the following factors:

- the amount of time I have to spend interacting with the bureaucracy,
- the amount of training that I have...

By Robert Marshall on June 2, 2022

This is probably the hardest thing to accomplish in the Federal Government. The Feds have incredibly diverse missions, the contribution is incredibly hard to measure. A person purchasing paper to run the office has an incredible number of oversight, rules and regulations to achieve her/his job solely because she/he is...

By timothy dibble on June 1, 2022

Limit Meetings-- No meeting must last for an hour. It is a commonly accepted standard which wastes hundred of ours. 1) Have a pre-published agenda, 2) No meeting can be scheduled on the hour or any 10 minute increment thereof, 3) No meeting can last more than 36 minutes, 4)...

By timothy dibble on June 1, 2022

Federal Government: Trust is the biggest missing element of employee autonomy. Government cannot trust because one bad apple initiates a whole process of rules, regulations, requirements and reviews (the 4Rs) to make sure the problem can never happen again. To re-establish trust with the employees, the front line, the employer,...

By timothy dibble on June 1, 2022
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Dynamic, agile teams create results through cultural values embedded into passionate games worthy of full out play. Bureaucracy creates results through preconceived, dead, processes.

By Nirvana Cable on May 30, 2022
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People with great initiatives deserve a clear and smooth pathway to implement them on time. Also, people with not-so-great initiatives deserve fast yet meaningful feedback in order to iterate their projects or to simply drop the ball and move on with the next experiment. Sadly, neither of these situations normally...

By Alberto Blanco on May 30, 2022

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