Read a selection of your colleagues’ postings. Respond by Day 5 , to two or more of your colleagues in one or more of the following ways: Select a question offered by your colleague that he/she did not use and suggest potential ways that your colleague or the organization might drive innovation and overcome the barriers and status quo. Compare your colleague's findings to those of others and your own. If you see similarities, explain why the status quo might appear similar across different workplaces and industries. Do not limit your responses solely to budgetary or resourcing constraints. Identify any challenges at a colleague's workplace that seem unique or that you have not encountered before. Offer your ideas about why you think those are important and which discovery skill from Dyer, et al., would best enable your colleague and/or the organization to drive innovation and overcome the barriers and status quo. Be sure to provide your rationale for your choice. Offer your insights to your colleague about the value of this process and importance of using it to identify opportunities for innovation or opportunities to challenge the status quo. POST1 Ten Questions that challenge the status quo at my current workplace: 1.    What if we allowed customers 24/7 access to our model homes, would this increase our sales? 2.    What if started a program that allowed customers to stay for one night in our model homes so that they could get a feel for the home (see if it’s a good match)? 3.    What if home loans were easier to get and builders covered more costs for the customers? 4.    What if my organization stopped focusing intensively on the sale and more on the actual customers’ needs as a homeowner? 5.    What if all employees tried to help one another versus helping themselves? What affect would this type of partnership have on the company and its customers? 6.    What if we built more than the traditional clubhouse, pool house, and common areas in our communities? What if we offered something that isn’t common such as a community go-kart track or skating rink? 7.    What if we decorated the exterior of our central office, including our showroom, in themes each week to excite and attract customer’s attention? Imagine the word-of-mouth advertising we would generate. 8.    What if we built a home for the local homeless people to stay in and take up donations for them to get back on their feet? 9.    What if we gave one house a year away to someone in need? This type of generosity may attract customers who can appreciate us giving back to the community. 10.    What if washed people cars, cut their grass, take out their trash, etc. in exchange for a donation to a local charity? The one question I chose is #5: “What if all employees tried to help one another versus helping themselves? What affect would this type of partnership have on the company and its customers?” This question is important because there is more strength in numbers meaning the mo ...

1. Read
a selection of your colleagues’ postings.
Respond
by
Day 5
, to two or more of your colleagues in one or more of the
following ways:
Select a question offered by your colleague that he/she did not
use and suggest potential ways that your colleague or the
organization might drive innovation and overcome the barriers
and status quo.
Compare your colleague's findings to those of others and your
own. If you see similarities, explain why the status quo might
appear similar across different workplaces and industries. Do
not limit your responses solely to budgetary or resourcing
constraints.
Identify any challenges at a colleague's workplace that seem
unique or that you have not encountered before. Offer your
ideas about why you think those are important and which
discovery skill from Dyer, et al., would best enable your
colleague and/or the organization to drive innovation and
overcome the barriers and status quo. Be sure to provide your
rationale for your choice.
Offer your insights to your colleague about the value of this
process and importance of using it to identify opportunities for
innovation or opportunities to challenge the status quo.
POST1
Ten Questions that challenge the status quo at my current
workplace:
1. What if we allowed customers 24/7 access to our model
homes, would this increase our sales?
2. What if started a program that allowed customers to stay
for one night in our model homes so that they could get a feel
for the home (see if it’s a good match)?
3. What if home loans were easier to get and builders covered

2. more costs for the customers?
4. What if my organization stopped focusing intensively on
the sale and more on the actual customers’ needs as a
homeowner?
5. What if all employees tried to help one another versus
helping themselves? What affect would this type of partnership
have on the company and its customers?
6. What if we built more than the traditional clubhouse, pool
house, and common areas in our communities? What if we
offered something that isn’t common such as a community go-
kart track or skating rink?
7. What if we decorated the exterior of our central office,
including our showroom, in themes each week to excite and
attract customer’s attention? Imagine the word-of-mouth
advertising we would generate.
8. What if we built a home for the local homeless people to
stay in and take up donations for them to get back on their feet?
9. What if we gave one house a year away to someone in
need? This type of generosity may attract customers who can
appreciate us giving back to the community.
10. What if washed people cars, cut their grass, take out their
trash, etc. in exchange for a donation to a local charity?
The one question I chose is #5: “What if all employees tried to
help one another versus helping themselves? What affect would
this type of partnership have on the company and its
customers?”
This question is important because there is more strength in
numbers meaning the more people collaborate, the greater the
chances of success. Our team is currently divided, and we all
have different agendas. This type of division poses a barrier to
innovation because it lacks the essential ingredient needed to
foster innovation which is teamwork. If we could master
working together as a whole, it would challenge the status quo
by helping us to learn to share our ideas. Exchanging ideas with
one another could lead to the production of creative strategies
that will propel the company forward.

3. In one of our resources this week, we see that there are five
discovery skills: “associating, questioning, observing,
experimenting, and networking” (Dyer, Gregersen, &
Christensen, (2009).
The skill that will enable my organization to encourage
innovation and overcome creativity barriers is networking.
Networking and sharing information amongst each other occurs
simultaneously. Therefore it is imperative we work on
developing this skill. “Devoting time and energy to finding and
testing ideas through a network of diverse individuals gives
innovators a radically different perspective” (Dyer, et al.,
2009). The status quo challenge question I chose is important
because it is imperative to focus the teams’ efforts towards
collectively testing solutions for our current problems. If we do
not join forces, this poses as a barrier because there will be a
lack of diversity during the creative thinking process.
Networking and sharing will challenge the status quo of my
organization by taking a bunch of different viewpoints and
applying them towards obstacles.
POST2
I will take my current employer, which is one of the largest
consulting organization. I noticed that it is pretty difficult to
challenge status quo of the organization, where your duty for
the past years is to challenge your own and clients status quo.
I came up with the following list of questions:
Why don’t we use digit channels to reach out to our customers?
Or allow them to reach out to us?
Bringing innovation to every pitch? (e.g. taking robot to driver
proposal pitch, or doing it in VR) I’m sure customers will get
excited, despite the contents.
Allow AI (Artificial Intelligence) with help of available
business do an initial screening of the client and help decide if
we shall bid or not?
Remove/ minimize all overheads in the radical, but democratic
way? Why do we need an office to operate? All piles up to

4. significant percent and eats from our income. Give me the
option to put this percent to the pocket and I will never be in
the office, but still commit to result.
Allow followers to decide on leader and leadership style they
want to experience more openly? They will be more motivated
to work their way, then somebodies. Less friction in my view.
Why not pursue new niche? A lot of small/micro businesses just
can’t afford consulting services. Why not come up with the
offering for them? They will grow one day… Hopefully
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Why not to partner with highly potential start-ups? Assist them
managing their business, but on revenue percentage basis. We
can link our performance and contribution to their revenues.
Open source our ideas and concepts? We have lots of unique
methodologies and concepts.
Crowdfund some of our ideas and social responsibility projects?
I think this might be an interesting way to spin our image and
impact further. We can grab lots of attention just through
crowdfund. For Example, we can take education sector, identify
people concerns into it (e.g. kids’ safety) and pursue change
with Education Council, by helping them draft new regulations.
This can come at no cost to the government, and may have a
great impact on society. Who will fund? What about you on
Kickstarter? I think this has potential and seems to be
something new.
What if we just automate some of the services we provide?
Think of audit process, it is very linear. Basically, there is an
information that you need, a checklist to complete and
observations and recommendations to come-up. Can I create
fairly automated service, so that anyone can subscribe to it and
do an automatic audit? Or maybe do real-time assurance?
My question.
I’m a big fan of open sourcing, my experience with this started
with Linux and Unix operating systems back in the early 2000s.

5. I was fascinated how flexible it is, you can assemble anything
you want and make it work the way you want. I played a lot
with it and got really excited by the amount of support
information and diversity of the communities available for this.
After some enterprise IT experience, I realized that things get
resolved much faster with open platforms than through best-in-
class enterprise agreements of Microsoft. I like how week
reading describes open-source innovation as “ability to tap the
passion and ingenuity of thinkers” (Amabile, Khaire, 2008,p.4).
When I look into the modern research techniques and the
amount of reading that we do there is a clear pattern in it. The
author shall base all his thinking on previous, scientifically
accepted researchers and information. This is all open and often
public data. What about corporations and consulting firms?
There is an enormous amount of information and breakthrough
generated and proven by such firms. Imagine if everyone had
access to this information and/or could contribute? In my view,
this would help to mature methods of the organization, solicit
cool and interesting work from potential clients who came to
your knowledge base. Certainly, this also presents a challenge
of losing the sense of exclusivity in the area. This also forces
you to beef up your other value proposition area. From the other
side, imagine how many more minds will open up to improvise
on what you previously considered to be your intellectual
property. Things will just further polish and emerge at no cost.
In fact, you can even get money out of it, just like everyone
does it on the internet, through an online advertisement, maybe
some of your partners. What if I offer you vendor technology
solution that can perfectly fit into the framework that you are
exploring on my website. At the back-end, I can have a
commission from the vendor. Wikipedia is a good example of
successful open source status quo challenge (Amabile, Khaire,
2008,p.4). Another example, that I’m aware of is Facebook’s
Data Center and IT Infrastructure open source project called
Open Compute Project. This has started as an open library of
the reference architectures and design drawings sponsored by

6. Facebook. Today there are thousands of the enthusiast working
on this. What is the benefit for the Facebook? They simply
innovate at no cost for design.
Discovery Skill.
Questioning discovery skills suite me very well. This is
probably because I do it every day with my clients, colleagues,
family. I like to challenge assumptions or what is considered
usual, this is part of my personality. This often opens up a large
number of possibilities that people might not have explored and
creates an opportunity for ideas to pitch and be heard. Just what
I want to secure my next meeting with potential client or
prospect. I want to get him/her excited about it as well. I like
how Marc Benioff described his breakthrough by questioning
entire software upgrade lifecycle (Dyer et al, 2009, p.4). Look
what happened shortly after. Entire IT industry got disrupted by
the concept of Cloud computing. As you may see, this works for
me and for the industry. I actually like all of the skills
described in the reading material and they all make sense to me.
I picked questioning as a very effective way to break the ice
with people I meet, this presents a greater opportunity to me to
achieve desired outcomes.