The Innovative Enterprise: How to transform a traditional organization in an innovative networking enterprise

Many companies are stymied by traditional management, which is not programmed to optimize the intangible resources such as the talents, innovation, and the vision. To shed the constraints and to outperform, the leadership needs to start with an original approach. Innovation is made by people, with people, for people. So, to innovate the way the organization innovates and performs, we may also have to innovate the way people think, the way they behave, and the way they act. My new book addresses these issues as follows. Firstly, to build the resolve to change, I help the leadership to evaluate their organization’s innovation-capabilities, and to see what the best-in-class are doing. Secondly, to show the way, I present the Open Management Platform as follows. To innovate the way people think, I show how to open up networking 4 ways, namely top/down and bottom/up, inside/out and outside/in. Opening up the interactions bottom/up removes traditional management’s disconnect, which separates the planners and the doers. To innovate the way people behave, I apply an original organizational design so as to optimize the collaborative management mode, which efficiently combines the pull of the leadership and the push of the self-managed teams. To innovate the way people act, I present the Model of the Two Rings, the mainspring of the Open Management Platform, which helps to establish and to run an innovative networking enterprise. It integrates the strategic deployment, the organizational deployment, and the Return on Total Resources, which reports and rewards not only the results achieved on the tangible assets, but also the ones concerning the web of the intangible resources. Thirdly, I present the 5 steps of the advocated program of change-management, which is driven by the Model of the Two Rings. The last chapter recaps the 10 factors that stymie the traditional organizations, removed by implementing the Open Management Platform. Dr. Willy A. Sussland - a senior consultant, lecturer, and author - focuses on critical management issues such as the management of innovation and the innovation of the management. He lectured post-grads at EPFL, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne, Switz., and at the University of Geneva, Geneva, Switz. He is the author of “Innovate out of Crisis”. Create Space 2010; a co-author of “Essentials of Logistics and Management”, EPFL Press 2007; the author of “Connected”, Thomson Publishing 2000.