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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dave-ungar's picture

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

Change the federal government funding model

By timothy dibble on June 11, 2022

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

Individuals need to experience their working world as the business experiences the outside world- they need customer and supplier relationships with their peers and outside businesses, but not just that, they must also have investor and mentor relationships, and contractual and legal relationships too. These relationships must embrace the risks...

By Julian Wilson on June 11, 2022
alberto-blanco's picture

From time to time, let everyone in a team exercise leadership by setting up a system that picks a new leader randomly.

The main focus of that randomly selected leader will be to serve their team, from a limited period of time, and to choose and remove a single bureaucratic...

By Alberto Blanco on June 25, 2022

Decisions to be made have to be put on a platform (IT-based) in order that everyone can access them and enter his/her knowledge or point of view. Even for big decisions like the acquisition of another company the executives will get a broader picture of all the circumstances, possible issues...

By Erwin Pfuhler on June 9, 2022

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

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
miguel-veloso's picture

People have roles rather than positions, and roles can be composed as needed to accomplish whatever is necessary at any one moment.

Roles are assigned/reassigned based on personal strengths and some rank is established by peer evaluation.

This way people can’t get entrenched in a power position and the organization...

By Miguel Veloso on July 6, 2021

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