Hack:
Tapping Employee Enthusiasm for Facebook to Encourage Innovation

                   Employees in today's organisation are mechanised and in order to trigger their enthusiasm to contribute ideas, an ideal platform must be provided. Social networking sites today have intrigued the employees daily curricula, according to a survey an employee at an average spends 4 to 5hrs a day just networking with people. How can this be an utility to an organistaion? Yes it can be, employees of the modern era seek social recognition amongst their colleagues or you can say within the organisation which would act as trigger mechanism for idea generation.

                   But, this needs to be channelised in the right direction this is where the organisations tend to fail, we have tried to provide a solution to this problem by imbibing an intra-social networking site within the organisation (for example Facebook).

•  Thus we have proposed a new model called Nova-integra model.(refer the material for the model)
• The model tackles the problem of lack of innovation from employees  using the concept of 'innovating through interaction' at every level of organisation by leveraging ideas through intra-social networking site.
• There will be a separate team working on the social networking architecture of the company.
• The model mainly concentrates on 360 degree development throughout the organisation.
• Each level of social interaction is controlled by moderators, and the TDR's of the moderators will be pre defined at every level of the loop.
• Every loop in the model represents different hierarchial levels within the organisation and every loop has a distinct tool to trigger the innovation mechanism.

                       The nova-integra model redefines the boundaries of organisational hiehrarchy & an innovation through interaction approach. The loops in the model represent the hierarchial levels, at every level of hierarchy employees differ in terms of knowledge and the touch points which trigger the innovative thinking.

I.     Innovation Loop 1: Knowledge workers (Lower level)

•  Interaction on FB should be made a part of the employees daily work schedule

• The 'what's on your mind' column should be made mandatory and the top 10 idea generators of the month should be recognised

II.    Innovation Loop 2: Team leads & Managers (Middle level)

• The middle level employees should conduct their project discussions on FB, where they can question and network in order to come up with innovative solutions.

• A debate on contradictory applications of concepts can trigger better ideas.

• Best implementable ideas can be recognised.

III.   Innovation Loop 3: VP, Country heads.. (Top level) 

• The people at this level of the organisation are high at knowledge and its not an easy task to moderate their thoughts of innovation, this needs to be handled with care.
• The moderators at this level should be excellent orators and liasonwho could facilitate interactions at the this level of the organisational hierarchy.
• At this level the activities such as redefining the exsisting business models, formulating new business plans... all this should be focused towards increased innovation.

Internal moderating points:  Moderating points within the purview and control of the organisation which exist within its boundaries. They will be responsible to moderate the discussion on various ideas being flagged on the FB forum. They should promote innovation amongst employees, measure the performance and work towards a more competitive work environment.

External moderating points: Moderating points outside the organisation but within its purview of control. They will be the moderators handling the external issues which act as a threat and also utilize this social networking tool for employer & company branding.

Uncontrolled moderating points: Moderating points which have a bearing on the organizational activities but cannot be controlled but still be moderated by handling critical issues about the company which arise on the social networking arena.