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Hacks

To tackle big, thorny challenges, you need big, unconventional ideas.

That’s what you’ll find here: boundary-pushing proposals for changing the way organizations work and leaders lead — from setting strategy to allocating resources to designing work to rewarding and compensating individuals.

Check out the disruptive ideas and radical fixes posted by your fellow MIXers below — and join them in stirring the pot by proposing your own. A hack can be as seemingly basic as a better way to run meetings or as high-stakes as a complete overhaul of the compensation system — as long as it turns the tables on management-as-usual and offers up a pathway to progress on one of the moonshots.

The MIX Lab / Hacks

A dynamic collection of real-world case studies from the MIX community

Subordinate bureaucracy is endemic in most established organisations, particularly larger corporates that have multiple layers of management structures.
Hack by Mark Rounthwaite on December 18, 2012
A successful organisation should have the base ingredients for innovation – intelligent, energetic and motivated people.  The organisation then has a choice, empower or constrain.  The type
Hack by Phil Bedford on December 18, 2012
In order to MOVE innovation in organizations we need to encourage the process of hate, love and utopia.
Hack by Caine Thompson on December 18, 2012
Empowering enterprise wide innovation through a unique, no-cost, non-intrusive software technology solution.
Hack by Matthew Heffron on December 17, 2012
Co-Authored By JD Wilson Jr
Identify people in the company which are prone to disruptive thinking and have proven track of innovation, and mix them with C-level executives on creative workshops, where various topics will be disc
Hack by Branko Djordjevic on December 15, 2012
Innovators are often a minority in their organization. At the same time they are smart people and may sometimes question the winning idea of an award.
Hack by Martin Kvapilik on December 15, 2012
Innovation has become a buzzword behind which too many bureaucrats are doing their worst.Innovation should not be considered and treated as a goal in itself, but as the means to the goal - de
Hack by Dr. Sorin Cohn-Sfetcu on December 12, 2012
Let's talk less about profit and more about value. Customer value. Let's talk about how we (as innovators) help customers create value.
Hack by Richard Ferrers on December 9, 2012
There are many good people out there who are trying to do something about the woeful state of the strong wool industry.  Synthetics have spanked wool in the market place in price and promotion, y
Hack by Angela McFetridge on December 8, 2012
Pretotypes are quick, cheap, revealed-preference tests to validate whether a breakthrough innovation is appealing to its market.  Pretotype tests occur immediately after a breakthrough idea is bo
Hack by Jeremy Clark on December 5, 2012
The number of people engaged in innovation is limited. They usually present a minority.
Hack by Martin Kvapilik on December 5, 2012
This Hack attempts to build on two existing ideas to encourage continuous innovation within a large organisation.
Hack by Ellen Ford on December 1, 2012

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