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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Teach everyone the same process for planning and problem solving so everyone has a common basis for communicating. This helps build trust among people which is necessary for others to accept the autonomy of each.

By Graham Douglas on June 11, 2022

Let an application create a net of full mesh information. This information pieces are
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Each input item is tagged, thus the network creates knots. Knots can be bigger or smaller according to the importance they are assigned by management and staff. This is...

By Erwin Pfuhler on June 13, 2022

When I see the categories defined as the needed ‘post-bureaucratic hacks’ , I can’t help to see it’s all about people and how people interact together, or better hacking the flaws in that context and about reaching goals, or better not reaching them as efficient or effective as we should.
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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

Instead of perfecting a product or service that meets all the internal demands (the good and the bad), put your best customers on development teams.

By Sean Schofield on July 17, 2021

Keep unit sizes and working contacts for each person down to about 150. This is known as Dunbar's Number which is explained at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunbar%27s_number . Broadly it is about the maximum number of people with whom someone can have a good social relationship. This would suggest organisations should be...

By Graham Douglas on July 4, 2022

Power is taken not given so trust must first be established among all in an organisation with a federated structure of small units.

By Graham Douglas on June 11, 2022

Free access to information is key, but it could become soon overwhelming to handle all the information in a smart way which is available. Employee need to be empowered by appropriate technology to get individual view of the company. What kind of information is really relevant to me? It is...

By Erwin Pfuhler on July 4, 2022

As many of you are aware that traditional bureaucracy operates as "permission to act". Employees are conditioned by management to always seek permission/approval before they act. In order words, there is implied negative consent and positive consent has to be explicitly sought.
One of the approach to bust this...

By Prashant Desai on July 14, 2021

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