The Busting Bureaucracy Hackathon

Phase 3: Ideas for Busting Bureaucracy (Part 1)

Radically expand the scope of employee autonomy

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Delegate Authority to Process Teams and Provide Enterprise-Wide Decision Support to Improve Decision Success Without Bureaucratic Structure

Delegate Authority and Decision Making along with An Enterprise Decision-Support System to Improve Success and Minimize Decision Risk

By Phil Weinzimer on June 16, 2022
bottom-up organization
efficiency and effectiveness
autonomy and trust
Collaborative Governance
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Autonomy must be accompanied by accountability.

The organisational system must make individuals accountable for the assets and liabilities of their operation- luckily such a mechanism exists in the traditional business system and that is the Balance Sheet- a document where all the assets and liabilities are expressed.

Every individual must have a Balance Sheet applied...

By Julian Wilson on June 12, 2022
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Build trust

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
Common basis for communication
#autonomy and trust
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Funding causes all problems

Change the federal government funding model

By timothy dibble on June 11, 2022
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Follow the model of the Professor: Smash your time clock and allow your people the freedom to set their own schedule

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
faculty
Professor
freedom
Time
Clock
accountability
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Federal Employee Autonomy--

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
Firing
promotions
Congressional Oversight
costs
equity