The Busting Bureaucracy Hackathon

Phase 3: Ideas for Busting Bureaucracy (Part 1)

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Ditch formality

Meetings, memos, PPT, reports, ritualistic processes… The bland-on-bland formality of corporate life chokes off the oxygen and energy that feeds innovation and progress.

Let’s throw off the chains of process, procedure and comportment by:

  • minimizing formal rules and procedures
  • creating flexible and organic processes, functions, and spaces

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Stop following the rules: Creation vs. Compliance

Outside of legal compliance, let us assume that rules, process, procedure, etc. are created for the sole and exclusive purpose of adding, preserving, or avoiding the diminution of value. However, if what is valued or deemed valuable changes, then they probably no longer useful. It's like milk. When it's expired,...

By Sean Schofield on July 17, 2021
flexibility
decision making
autonomy & trust
agility
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Create Dynamic Rules/ Filters

Create decision rules & guidelines that can be changed to reflect the processes that are working, make sense, resonate with workers.

By Dave Ungar on June 17, 2022
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agreements
rules
democratic
-self-managing
Decision making process
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Have unconferences instead of formal meetings and presentations.

Have unconferences instead of formal meetings and presentations. Unconferences are explained at
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unconference .

By Graham Douglas on June 11, 2022
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Unconferences
effective communication
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Value beats formality

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
Evaluations
costs
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Meetings waste time

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
accountability
meetings
productivity