Ideas are Free

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TAP ONE OF YOUR GREATEST SOURCES OF PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENT -EMPLOYEE IDEAS A worker in one of Europe's largest wireless communication companies stumbled across an error in his company's biliing software, fixed it, and saved the company somé $26 millión per year. A secretary at Grapevine Canyon Ranch proposed a simple change to the company's website that brought the site to the top of search engine listings. A guard at the Massachusetts Department of Correction saved the prison system $56,000 a year by suggesting the use of digital cameras instead of film to process new inmates. From simple ideas for saving time, effort, and money, to entirely new ways of doing business, front-line employees see a great many opportunities in their day-to-day work that their managers don't. Drawing on extensive research and experience in more than 300 organizations around the world, Alan Robinson and Dean Schroeder show managers precisely how to take advantage of the virtually free, perpetually... Tovább

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TAP ONE OF YOUR GREATEST SOURCES OF PERFORMANCE IMPROVEMENT -EMPLOYEE IDEAS A worker in one of Europe's largest wireless communication companies stumbled across an error in his company's biliing software, fixed it, and saved the company somé $26 millión per year. A secretary at Grapevine Canyon Ranch proposed a simple change to the company's website that brought the site to the top of search engine listings. A guard at the Massachusetts Department of Correction saved the prison system $56,000 a year by suggesting the use of digital cameras instead of film to process new inmates. From simple ideas for saving time, effort, and money, to entirely new ways of doing business, front-line employees see a great many opportunities in their day-to-day work that their managers don't. Drawing on extensive research and experience in more than 300 organizations around the world, Alan Robinson and Dean Schroeder show managers precisely how to take advantage of the virtually free, perpetually renewable resource of employee ideas and gain significant advantage over their competitors. "Recommended for all business collections." -Library Journal "This empowering book is a refreshingly simple examination of how corporate creativity can happen." -Fast Company magaziné "IdeasAre Free [is] a clear and concise prescription for turning an organization into an idea machine. ... it will inspire any manager who believes, as I do, that only the innovative thrive!" -Jeff Taylor, Founder and Chief Monster, Monster.com "Robinson and Schroeder shine a bright light on an often-overlooked-opportunity unleashing ideas from front-line employees. Ideas Are Free shows you the powerful role these ideas have in creating a high-performance culture and sustainable advantage." -Bob Warstler, President of Global Sales, Lucent Technologies Alan G. Robinson is coauthor of the bestseller Corporate Creativity and teaches at the Isenberg School of Management at the University of Massachusetts. Dean M. Schroeder is currently Associate Dean and Director of Graduate Programs in Management at the College of Business Administration at Valparaiso University. Vissza