Top 5 Barriers to Creating Innovative Solutions
Top 5 Barriers to Creating Innovative Solutions
And How to Overcome Them
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Internal Myopia
Forced by the wrong sponsor level inside the organization and the pressures of internal interests can lead to posing a question that is not really wicked, which focuses the crowd on incremental short-term “burning fires” problems (process improvement) rather than solving strategically critical wicked problems.
Collaboration Disincentives
Focus attention on “individual ideas” over Collective Production of “innovative solutions” for most strategic wicked problems.
Grandstanding
Leads to some in the crowd wanting to just pose their under-developed ideas rather than work with others to collectively develop innovative solutions and create learning opportunities for all involved.
Domination by “Experts”
Inside or outside the organization, those with resources and “experience” to “tend to crowd out” those who are not “experts,” but may have the real knowledge to make a difference.
Outcome Uncertainty
Doubt about how the best solutions will be determined as well as what happens to those solutions in the organization, foment skepticism that nothing will “ever happen” with these newly conceived solutions. These doubts and concerns tend to keep individuals from participating and contributing their knowledge.