The Busting Bureaucracy Hackathon

Phase 3: Ideas for Busting Bureaucracy (Part 1)

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Give everyone a place at the table

In too many organizations, information hoarding is the rule and decision-making is an elite activity. What if the process for solving problems and making decisions was opened up to truly involve people inside (and relevant stakeholders outside) the organization?

This includes harnessing many of the tools and principles of open platforms for:

  • online idea brainstorming, voting, and prioritization
  • "buying" and "selling" ideas to determine their value, e.g. an "ideas market"

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Ping - till - Perfect

When I see the categories defined as the needed ‘post-bureaucratic hacks’ , I can’t help to see it’s all about people and how people interact together, or better hacking the flaws in that context and about reaching goals, or better not reaching them as efficient or effective as we should.
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By Jimmy Van de Putte on July 7, 2021
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the hackaton meta hack

As the purpose is to provide employees with an "platform" to participate as much as they want in the decision making processes of the organisation why not start with providing them with a hackaton platform with which they can design the organisation to their own liking. The easiest way might...

By jeroen ermers on July 3, 2022
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Random Leadership Designator

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
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Smart Aggregated Information

Let an application create a net of full mesh information. This information pieces are
Questions
Answers
Ideas.
Each input item is tagged, thus the network creates knots. Knots can be bigger or smaller according to the importance they are assigned by management and staff. This is...

By Erwin Pfuhler on June 13, 2022
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big data
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Everyone has a voice- but primarily only control over themselves.

The essential factor is that the organisational system must be specifically designed to make hierarchies unstable so they can never support entrenched dominance.

It must be accepted that individuals are more or less socially dominant and have more or less anxiety.

The organisational system therefore must not allow...

By Julian Wilson on June 12, 2022
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Teach everyone the same process for planning and problem solving so everyone has a common basis for communicating.

Teach everyone the same process for planning and problem solving so everyone has a common basis for communicating.

By Graham Douglas on June 11, 2022
Common basis for communication
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A Basic Approach to Idea- and Knowledge Management for Decision Making

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
organizational learning;
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Don't be a fiscal hog: Give every one a healthy slice of the budgetary pie

Instead of hording control of your budget, allow every employee to have discretionary control (and thereby responsibility) for a slice of the pie. The one area that is the scourge or bane of creativity is that every time you have a crazy idea, you have to run it by the...

By Aaron Anderson on June 8, 2022
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Fiscal
Budget
Disbursion
authority
responsibility
power
ego