Ideas are free : how the idea revolution is liberating people and transforming organizations

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Title:

Author:

Robinson, Alan (Alan G.)

ISBN:

9781576752821

Personal Author:

Robinson, Alan (Alan G.)

Publication Information:

San Francisco, Calif. : Berrett-Koehler, c2004.

Physical Description:

xvii, 232 p. ; 24 cm.

Contents:

Ch. 1. The idea revolution -- Ch. 2. The power of small ideas -- Ch. 3. The pitfalls of rewards -- Ch. 4. Making ideas everyone's job -- Ch. 5. Putting the process in place -- Ch. 6. Focusing on what matters most -- Ch. 7. Getting more and better ideas -- Ch. 8. Liberation and transformation.

Abstract:

"Ideas Are Free shows managers how to tap all the ideas their employees have and gain significant advantage over their competitors. In today's increasingly competitive business world, only companies that are successful at managing ideas will thrive. Robinson and Schroeder have discovered, through extensive research and work with more than 300 companies - in dozens of industries, from agriculture to high-technology - the key factors that influence the quantity and quality of employee ideas. They provide a roadmap for totally integrating ideas and idea management into the way companies are structured and operate and show how any manager can develop this increasingly critical competency."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject Term:

Suggestion systems.

Management -- Employee participation.

Organizational change.

Organizational effectiveness.

Corporate culture.

Added Author:

Schroeder, Dean M.

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Summary

A worker in one of Europe's largest wireless communication companies stumbled across an error in his company's billing software, fixed it, and saved the company some $26 million per year. A secretary at Grapevine Canyon Ranch proposed a simple change to the company's website that brought the site to the top of search engine listings. A guard at the Massachusetts Department of Correction saved the prison system $56,000 a year by suggesting the use of digital cameras instead of film to process new inmates.

From simple ideas for saving time, effort, and money, to entirely new ways of doing business, front-line employees see a great many opportunities in their day-to-day work that their managers don't. Drawing on extensive research and experience in more than 300 organizations around the world--and including numerous illustrative examples--Alan Robinson and Dean Schroeder show precisely how to take advantage of the virtually free, perpetually renewable resource of employee ideas. Ideas Are Free shows managers how to tap all the ideas their employees have and gain significant advantage over their competitors.