Systems don't have ideas, only people have ideas. All great inventions in this world have been discovered by individuals or small groups. Ideas are the raw materials for the success of the day after tomorrow.
The Federal average number of improvement ideas in Germany is 0.3 ideas per employee per year. Toyota generates 30 ideas per employee per year. A factor of 100!
In Germany, there are 40 million people working every day; multiply that by 30 and you get a theoretical total of 1.2 billion improvement ideas. Per year.
The reality is sobering: Only 12 million ideas instead of 1.2 billion and most of those aren't implemented because of objections at management level. The plea that "less is more" doesn't really hold true – every 47th idea is simply genius.
25 years of hsp experience have shown that managers have difficulty with the idea that their employees can be creative. Objections such as: "What's that good for?", "We don't have it under control.", "How are you meant to control that?", "But not in our company" are signs of the internal mental blocks.
Poor Germany. Poor German companies. If we really lived out our German virtues - such as creativity, precision, tenacity - we needn't worry about our future as "added value world champion".
The reality is that we are not really exploiting the innovative force in German companies to its full extent, nor are our organizations set up to allow innovations to blossom. The "not-invented-here" syndrome still dominates.
Only creative ideas lead to creative solutions.
hsp transformation has been practicing an innovative change approach for 25 years – one that releases the creative potential in a company via an intelligent bottom-up approach and brings it to fruition in a focused way at workplace, process and team levels.
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