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To: Frank A. Coluccio who wrote (32105)	11/17/2009 1:12:33 PM
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"From another perspective, innovation is routinely stifled in many parts of Corporate America by yet another family of favored fall-backs, "best practices" and SOPs, since they often outgrow their usefulness far in advance of anyone getting around to changing or updating them in the books. We're now at a point whereby most IT departments (sizable one, at least) won't allow their employees any form of creative latitude at all, much less permit them to change an operating practice until their top vendors tell them how they're going to do and it's ok to do so in the first place. " So true! The company from which I recently retired practiced an innovative technique. As you're probably aware, many companies have a number of IT personnel performing routine maintenance, beside those who get to do more creative or expansive tasks. Here's what was done: [1] An annual list of key projects was prepared [2] People from all strata of the IT department voted for the project(s) they wanted to work on. This had some real benefits: [A] Over a period of years, different personnel got to work cooperatively on a broad array of problems [B] Notwithstanding the limiting factors you mention, fresh creative input was obtained [C] Since new groups were formed as each problem was solved, cross-exposure was maximized. Personnel got new challenges, rather than being stuck in their "crowd" for years, doing repetitive work. [D] Personnel gained understanding for all facets of the operation. At the time, I was no longer involved in IT; however I thought the idea was brilliant. Jim