Open innovation is based on a premise that we do not have all the knowledge needed to reach our goals. The natural result is to ask others for help, and since we do not know who knows how much, we try to ask as many people as possible.
Open leadership is an approach to management which assumes employees have knowledge which is not used. In most organizations this is true for various reasons – closed hierarchy, poor communication, culture is not supportive, information is not shared, there are no openings for employees to participate beyond their assigned processes. Whatever the reason, most organizations are not using all the knowledge they could.
Open leaders are leaders and managers who take concrete actions to access all relevant employee knowledge. They use tools and processes that discover the best ways to engage employees into innovation and other forms of participation.
OPEN OS and openinnovation.me are perfect tools for open leadership. They can be set up very easily for internal use and can give great results thanks to its simplicity and directness. If the same successful method we used in end-users is applied to employees, internal open innovation will give results.
Email Andrea at andrea@openinnovation.me to discuss how OPEN OS and openinnovation.me can be used for open leaderships aka open innovation with employees.
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