The Busting Bureaucracy Hackathon

Phase 3: Ideas for Busting Bureaucracy (Part 1)

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Break up monolithic structures

We live in a dynamic world—and organizations must be able to fluidly reconfigure capabilities, infrastructure, and resources in order to morph along with it. But it’s tough to move quickly when you’re stuck in a box. The rigid unit boundaries, functional silos, and political fiefdoms that define bureaucratic organizations hamper the rapid realignment of skills and assets. And the bigger the box, the bigger the danger. Large organizational units with hundreds or thousands of employees often lead to groupthink on a grand scale.

Post-bureaucratic organizations will instead focus on:

  • experimenting with approaches to making big feel small
  • creating fluid, project-based structures

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Bureaucracy can be busted using a decentralized technology-mediated organization structure

I believe bureaucracy can be busted using a technology-mediated organization structure that is decentralized. Each role in an organization is given a set of resources to provide services. These services are publicized to an intelligent job scheduler. Associated with each instance of a role, real time performance metrics as well...

By Kaushal Chari on July 13, 2021
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A responsibility-based organization is the answer to break up monolithic structures.

A responsibility-based organization is where collaborators (employees) can choose in a flexible and voluntary way the responsibilities they want to assume, based on their own competences, capabilities and tastes. When flexibility is the norm, job titles and hierarchies become irrelevant. Under this model, working time, working load, remuneration, leadership and...

By Agustin Jimenez on July 9, 2021
responsabilities
self-managing teams
flexibility
#autonomy
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LinkedIn: How to turn talents (users) into entrepreneurs

LinkedIn, as a business-oriented social networking site, in my view, can create conditions to allow most of its users, that is, all registered identified professional talents, to willingly co-found a wide variety of virtual microenterprises, and project teams (such as fashion design) through freely inviting, communicating, negotiating, and contracting.
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By Aaron Brook on July 6, 2021
self organization
Federated Structure
agreements
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LinkedIn: How to turn talents (users) into entrepreneurs

LinkedIn, as a business-oriented social networking site, in my view, can create conditions to allow most of its users, that is, all registered identified professional talents, to willingly co-found a wide variety of virtual microenterprises, and project teams (such as fashion design) through freely inviting, communicating, negotiating, and contracting.
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By Aaron Brook on July 6, 2021
self organization
Federated Structure
agreements
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Limit organisation size to about 150 in a function-based federation.

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
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No internal e-mail policy

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
making big feel small
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Co-worker Memory Game

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
making big feel small
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Eliminate employee numbers, use their names instead

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

By Alberto Blanco on June 25, 2022
making big feel small
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Apply a Shared Governance Compass as a innovation platform for public and private policy

Apply a Shared Governance Compass https://prezi.com/14i7jjzqoq3j/minnesotas-governance-opportunity/ to organize outcomes, process, funding and strategies for policy proposals.

By Tim Gieseke on June 16, 2022
cross-functional collaboration
Governance
innovation platform
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Adaptable Systems

Up to now, too many systems we use have too rigid structures. Don't get me wrong. There is still a need for a basic structure, but there is so much beyond it with free floating information, which does not fit in a predefined structure. E.g. CRM systems focus on one...

By Erwin Pfuhler on June 13, 2022
big data
CRM

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