New Ideas – Build On or Compete With March 16, 2007
Posted by FluxBlogger in : Uncategorized , trackbackReading an interesting post from ‘Ask the Wizard’ a very good start up blog worth catching up with, I came across a parallel idea to what we all struggle with at times in making change happen.
Change often becomes tough when we ‘launch’ our idea from its carefully incubated start following our Kotter models when we thought we had prepared everything. The disruption can come from circumstances very similar to the turbulent times that software start-ups have entering the market.
These relate to our inadvertant ability to ‘create competitors’ to our ideas. The ‘Ask the Wizard’ post drove me to parallel some tips for the change game as follows:
1. Software Start Up – Poor Practice #1 No Open API – Change parallel: keeping our change concept closed to the wider organisation without letting them build upon it. All sorts of unpredictable benefits can be accrued from letting the organisation into your concepts and ideas. It also makes more sense for the organisation to build upon your start than other pockets attempting to build a ‘competing’ initiative from scratch
2. Software Start Up – Poor Practice #1 No Free Version – Change parallel: providing the organisation with simple and effective ways of accessing your ideas without having to ‘buy-in’ examples of this can be from forcing business units to invest before they can play with your initiative etc. People want to try extensively before they buy in something as intangible as change, letting them in easily not only can assist in driving change forward but also avoids someone else letting them in free to their competing change intiative.
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