6. Traditional Companies Operate Bureaucracies that Murder Innovation

Traditional Industry 3.0 companies fail to implement innovation with the speed, scale and sustainability they need to compete in Industry 4.0 because their bureaucracies murder innovation. Yes, a bureaucracy is designed to destroy innovation! Most traditional firms can create innovations but they cannot integrate them into their business models because their bureaucracies prevent them from changing themselves. Thus, digitalisation for organisations can be understood as the transition from the management bureaucracy to the agile ecosystem; the success of this transition can be measured by the quantity, quality and speed of innovation produced.

The industrial paradigm of the bureaucracy also applies to education, this excellent video explains how schools kill creativity: https://www.ted.com/playlists/171/the_most_popular...

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