The ideas men of India - an interesting post from the Business Innovation insider blog. It linkes to this article. On a related note here's a comment I made on Dave Lefkow's blog:
I believe that the way Indian firms deploy and develop talent is fundamentally different in the way US firms deploy and develop their talent.
The reason is the cultural difference to knowledge and competence in the two cultures.
To put it more plainly, Indian firms are better at "guruism", having their exceptional individuals maintain their knowledge and tacit knowledge to a much higher extent than a US firm.
A US based organization structures work so that it becomes broken down and can be replicated easily.
My earlier posts on related themes:
Interesting to read your Blog postings!
ReplyDeletei have some basic queries on Idea generation & Innovation, would like to know your insights!
"KM-Idea/Innovation"
1) We all talk about Idea generation, but are we clear on a issue or a topic on what idea can be generated if a formal structure has to be built. i.e. first need to know on what ideas can be generated.
2) Should management decide the topic/issue and communicate across organization and ask people to submit there ideas with defined time period.
3) How to effectively start or build strategy to foster people to submit their ideas and take part in brainstorming or meeting to get common conclusion on Ideas. This is the major concern where people don’t come for meetings for such activities and not intend to participate or contribute or share. How to market the concept of idea generation and make it more popular and correlate under KM.
4) I guess incentives would work but till what extend.
Regards
jeevan
I think you have posted some differences in Indian firms' management of talent and intellectual wealth. I think you do not intend to address the issues about recovery of Indian firms in case of desertion by the "gurus" of the firm. Does such a situation call for recovery time to train, cultivate or acquire new gurus?
ReplyDeleteThank you your valuable inputs!
ReplyDeleteI am interested to know more on "How to start Idea generation and innovation system effectively (rather just theory)". If we know what are the failures before implementing them, how to overcome those? Such activates are beneficial at both the ends with proper process in place. To ensure the benefits or outcomes, are there any metrics to find them.
Balaji please can you elaborate on "If the organization wants to 'USE' people's brains, and their soul which is the font of creativity, nd where the whole makes people feel used - it does not work." and "The reason why often the 'idea generation' schemes fail, is that they do not, often have much to offer to people who offer ideas."
purpose: to motivate people to submit their ideas
structure: to assess, validate, approve these ideas if they are sound good.
process: to tell people how they can submit their ideas i.e. proper channel.
authenticity : sole ownership to the idea generator.
In all, i want to know if we want to start this what should be our action plan to drive it, e.g. step by step like DMAIC procedure in Six sigma.
thanking you!
regards
Jeevan