
28 Nov Does someone owe you a lot of ideas?
Posted at 16:25h
in Corporate
Is it unreasonable to expect that employees in your company occasionally come up with a solid idea or two on how to improve your business? I don’t think it is. If anything, as we become more experienced, more proficient and generally wiser, we should be coming up with ideas on how to improve the world around us all the time.
It might be a massive deal, like figuring out how to increase your revenue by a factor of 10, or it might be something small, like thinking of a way to cut down printer paper consumption by only 10%. Even the smallest and simplest ideas can have a significant impact to the company, as benefits from those ideas accumulate over time.
In order to start accumulating benefits, companies will need to tap into another accumulated resource – their employees’ experience. Adding up all the years on the job, from all the employees in a company, amounts to at least centuries, but more often millennia of accumulated experience.
Although it’s become a cliché to refer to something as “a new oil”, what we call “collective intelligence”, “crowd knowledge” or “accumulated experience” is in fact what fuels innovation in a company.
Although it’s become a cliché to refer to something as “a new oil”, what we call “collective intelligence”, “crowd knowledge” or “accumulated experience” is in fact what fuels innovation in a company.