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Ideas for Busting Bureaucracy (Part 2)

During Phase 3, the hackathon team developed almost 70 mini-hacks—radical, yet practical ideas for busting bureaucracy with the help of technology. Now we turn to Phase 4, where we will develop the most promising mini-hacks into fully-fledged management hacks.

You’ll find the list of the most prominent mini-hacks below. If you’d like to work further on your mini-hack but don’t see it displayed below or you have any other questions or issues, please get in touch with us.

When developing your hack, please review this "hack cheatsheet" a short guide for how to create a great management hack. The document contains a number of practical tips as well as links to some of our favorite hacks on the MIX.

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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 cre

By Aaron Anderson on July 29, 2021

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,

By Alberto Blanco on July 29, 2021

busting bureaucracy

Leadership

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Follow the Professor: Smash your time clock and allow your people the freedom to set their own schedule

An employee is only as autonomous as s/he feels s/he has complete control over her/his own schedule.

By Aaron Anderson on July 29, 2021

Allow and encourage self organized knowledge communities

Encourage self organized communities of practice

By Edna Pasher on July 29, 2021

Create Dynamic Rules/ Filters

Create decision rules & guidelines that can be changed to reflect the processes that are working, make sense, resonate with workers.

By Dave Ungar on July 29, 2021

Decision making process

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In-source the Customer

Instead of perfecting a product or service that meets all the internal demands (the good and the bad), put your best customers on development teams.

By Sean Schofield on July 29, 2021

customer collaboration

Delegate Authority to Process Teams and Provide Enterprise-Wide Decision Support to Improve Decision Success Without Bureaucratic Structure

Delegate authority to eliminate chain of command structure and support decentralized decision makers with an automated enterprise-wide support systems that provides tips, traps, successes, and failure

By Phil Weinzimer on July 29, 2021

bottom-up organization

efficiency and effectiveness

autonomy and trust

Collaborative Governance

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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.

By Erwin Pfuhler on July 29, 2021

organizational learning;

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Meritocracy requires objective measures.

Common measures must be things like Quality (measure of returns or complaints), Delivery (on time and in full measure), Profit (% return on assets being exploited in their activity after liabilities h

By Julian Wilson on July 29, 2021

performance measures