How is Asia Cracking Creativity? Here's how and they are doing it very well.
Suggestions. Suggestions. Suggestions. How is it
then that a culture so focused on hierarchial mechanisms for incrementalism
benefits so highly from a suggestion based system? Simple. Focused
incrementalism on the suggestions themselves.
Of 10 firms systematically
researches, all 10 had between 38 and 833.2 suggestions per employee greatly
increasing the value to the firm of new product development initiatives as well
as solutions to existing problems. How did they do it? Here is how; Cracking
the Incremental Paradigm of Japanese Creativity
