{"id":658,"date":"2012-05-24T10:18:27","date_gmt":"2012-05-23T21:18:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/?p=658"},"modified":"2012-05-24T10:18:27","modified_gmt":"2012-05-23T21:18:27","slug":"creative-thinkers-dont-always-fit-organisational-structures-hbs-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/?p=658","title":{"rendered":"Creative thinkers don’t always fit organisational structures (HBS research)"},"content":{"rendered":"

It can be quite tricky to involve creative and non-linear thinkers in your organisational structure. Many people that fit in this category prefer to have wide-ranging remits that don’t fit the normal hierarchical structures.\u00a0 Fresh research (indeed it’s work-in-progress) from HBS supports this and sums up it up in the context of distributed innovation:<\/p>\n

Many creative problem-solvers will not or simply cannot work effectively under standard employment or supply contracts. That is why distributed innovation in a business ecosystem is such a desirable organizational form.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

via Organization Design for Distributed Innovation \u2014 HBS Working Knowledge<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It can be quite tricky to involve creative and non-linear thinkers in your organisational structure. Many people that fit in this category prefer to have wide-ranging remits that don’t fit the normal hierarchical structures.\u00a0 Fresh research (indeed it’s work-in-progress) from HBS supports this and sums up it up in the context of distributed innovation: Many […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-at-the-fringes","category-innovation-culture"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=658"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":659,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658\/revisions\/659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdennis.com\/ideaport\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}