For organizations seeking growth through value creation, the challenge at hand is to create cultures in which platforms for the exploration of possibility are both encouraged and enabled. Unleashing such an innovative mindset is about creating a culture that empowers inquisitive minds to imagine the future, and to think beyond the legacy of the past.
With the analogue generation still in control of the organization and the digital generation performing the daily work, clashes are imminent and inevitable. Even when they come face to face, the dialogue is often between the deaf and the mute, as there is no common experience that unifies the two groups and enables a constructive dialogue.
[This article has been reprinted, with permission, from Rotman Management, the magazine of the University of Toronto's Rotman School of Management]
I can assure you that with all these regulations, predetermined functions, already anticipated and expected modes of output, and ultimately measurable products, nothing new will emerge from this. Best of luck trying to structure the "future" before it arrives.
on May 24, 2011