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Transforming Your Business with Bottom-Up Management: The Design Thinking Way

Tullio Siragusa

Transforming Your Business with Bottom-Up Management: The Design Thinking Way In the ever-evolving landscape of modern business, a significant shift is occurring from traditional top-down management to a more inclusive and innovative strategy: bottom-up management.

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The Importance of Staying Scrappy in an AI-Driven Era

Tullio Siragusa

However, over-engineering can make simple processes tedious. Stay Hands-On As companies grow and processes mature, managers tend to move away from day-to-day operations. Test products extensively before launch, collect first-hand customer feedback, brainstorm with engineers — don’t lose touch with the details.

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Data Innovation in Manufacturing Requires Integration

Tullio Siragusa

Technology that helps in connecting with suppliers for materials and managing product data with a digital platform makes the process faster, and more efficient. Engineering and manufacturing are complex fields where there is an intersection of people and technologies. This is because manufacturing cannot be done alone or separately.

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The Detriments of a Command-and-Control Culture and the Power of Design Thinking

Tullio Siragusa

Example: Kodak, a once-dominant player in the photography industry, struggled to innovate and adapt to the digital age. One famous case is the dismissal of the digital camera concept by an engineer in the 1970s. Result: Kodak’s failure to innovate and adapt to digital technology ultimately led to bankruptcy in 2012.

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An Innovation Lexicon

IdeaScale

Information technologists may argue that innovation is mostly about new processes or process re-engineering. Outside the capitalist loop, we have the proponents of social innovation – developing new things which have a demonstrable social value. Or of Jugaad – small, smart innovation for ordinary people.

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Elevating Executive Engagement by Embracing Empowerment and Emotional Intelligence

Tullio Siragusa

Today’s leaders need to redefine their role from being an authoritarian figure to becoming a collaborator, a coach, and a guide, cultivating a climate of engagement and commitment. Often, command-and-controls management styles alienates the team and results in talented individuals feeling marginalized, leading to higher attrition rates.”

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Open innovation & crowdsourcing resources

Board of Innovation

Open innovation & crowdsourcing resources Open Innovation, crowdsourcing, co-creation… overlapping terminologies to describe a trend towards more open business models and a closer collaboration with customers. On this page we gather a list of inspiring examples.