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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alberto-blanco's picture

If you need to communicate with someone who is in your same building, give it a call or even better, go downstairs or upstairs and meet and greet that person
#makingBigFeelSmall

By Alberto Blanco on June 25, 2022
alberto-blanco's picture

Set up a simple memory game with the faces and names of the people who work with you in the organization.
#makingBigFeelSmall

By Alberto Blanco on June 25, 2022
alberto-blanco's picture

Of course, this won't break up the giant, but it will be a good start.
#makingBigFeelSmall

By Alberto Blanco on June 25, 2022

Ensure Key Performance Indicators (KPI) are actually improving decision making and performance and not just serving to inform managers, use up resources and probably undermine the sense of purpose of individuals.

By Graham Douglas on June 24, 2022

Consider the work of the Organization Management Group. As stated at http://www.omg.org/gettingstarted/gettingstartedindex.htm "The Object Management Group (OMG®) is an international, open membership, not-for-profit technology standards consortium. Founded in 1989, OMG standards are driven by vendors, end-users, academic institutions and government agencies. OMG Task Forces develop enterprise integration standards for...

By Graham Douglas on June 18, 2022
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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
dave-ungar's picture

Be clear (i.e. AGREE) about how you know whether what value you're delivering is truly valuable.

By Dave Ungar on June 17, 2022

In order to have a streamlined, cost-efficient and powerful organization, we need to think as if we start the organization right now and without any restrictions. We only think of the customer, our employees and other stakeholders. It is not the management team or consultants, who do the design, but...

By Erwin Pfuhler on June 14, 2022

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