Every month, Prairie Business magazine talks to regional leaders to learn more about a particular topic. We asked this month: How do you model the innovative thinking in your organization and ensure what benefits?
Shane Zutz
Vice President, Human Resources
Digikey
The thief drops the river, Minn.
In many cases, innovation is tied with great ideas that dramatically changing the trajectory of a business or product. Although true, it occurs more when people create a culture that people think differently, protest against assumptions and experience practice with new approaches. In Digikey, we try to model the innovative thinking in the following ways:
Interest of interest – If the team members are asked, we are eager to a mentality, “What will happen?” and “Why not?” instead of sticking to the status quo. This has been a significant part of Digikey’s growth history and is part of what we are an industrial leader. We allow new prospects and creative solutions to create new prospects and creative solutions by creating an environment where the questions are taken.
Cuddle the clever risks – Such requires trying new things even when the result of innovation is not guaranteed. Digikey is constantly conducting practices at all business units and levels of the organization. This mindset helped us to be ahead in rapidly changing market conditions.
Cooperates between the teams – This is the main attribute of innovative thinking. Silos create an environment that manages the diversity to create ideas and solve problems more effectively, to break up and encourage a cross-functional team work.
As part of our daily work, it is clear that the creation of this type of environment. Do not serve our customers causes smarter, more efficient ways. This environment sees that team members’ opinions are acting and motivated by team members and motivated.
Innovation is not a one-time incident – is a habit. We create a culture that enhances growth and sustainable development by modeling forest, risk and cooperation.
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DJ Campbell
Vice President, Chief HR Officer
Sanford Health
Bismarck, nd
Innovative thinking, especially in rural communities, is important to change health supply in solving problems such as accessibility. We are developing a culture of innovation by seeking new ways to promote training and use technology, which are constantly advancing the technology that uses the technology. One of the most effective ways we have shown this indicates that in addition to our virtual health infrastructure, the Revolutionary population of the care.
It is the process of developing and implementing new ideas and methods that improve innovation, efficiency, effectiveness and results. This is not only related to the invention, but about the application of a creative problem solving real world problems. We model the innovative thinking by accepting the risks to encourage interest in our organization, accepting the change and improve the healthy delivery. This means seeking new technologies, dealing with forward thinking discussions and protecting the powers to offer employee novel solutions and to test. Innovation also requires agility – to be ready to evaluate work, cleaning and pivot if necessary.
By connecting telemedicine, remote patient monitoring and AI-DiVille diagnostics, we break up traditional obstacles to achieve health. For example, patients in rural areas, which have previously traveled long distances for qualified care, can now contact providers through safe virtual platforms near home. In addition, remote tracking allows the active management of chronic conditions, reduce hospital readings and improve the well-being of the general patient.
The benefits of this innovative approach are clear: villagers receive high quality care in time without geographical restrictions. Suppliers can optimize their resources and the difference in the health is significantly reduced. By innovating, we do not shape the future of the health care service, but also provide fair access to all communities, regardless of the location.
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Chase Kramer, AIA
Design director, architect
TSP, Inc.
Sioux Falls, SD
After 95 years, we have prepared a very process and best experience to promote the architectural and engineering industry, innovative thinking. In addition to some standard imike sessions found in most A / E design firms, we carry out several others to ensure innovative thinking in all aspects of our work.
An important feature of our inheritance of our company is established by a culture of continuous learning. From a mentor point of view, each week, the larger team – “TSP TED talks”, we have research topics of young designers to present a larger team. These do not only help us all learn something new, but they also know our common presentation skills.
Part of this sustainable learning culture is a project trash process. A clutch is carried out when a project comes out of the door and discussing the construction and discussed what he works and does not. Instead of allowing you to imaging as errors, we see them as an opportunity for individuals and the entire firm.
Innovation and technology also seize hand, so we are important to speed up with the latest technologies. Also not only in re-repeated or secular processes, but also to help Kickstart brainstorm and other creative efforts. Our entire detent team has been training in architectural visualization to make the design process more interactive with our customers, to see how it affects them from a pragmatic point of view, however, however, can access the equipment and systems that need normal maintenance.
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