HBR/McKinsey M-Prize: Management 2.0 Challenge

Winners announced!

We’re thrilled to introduce you to the winners of the Management 2.0 Challenge—the first phase of the HBR/McKinsey M-Prize for Management Innovation.

All the finalists

Here are the 20 finalists:

In the first leg of the Harvard Business Review-McKinsey M-Prize for Management Innovation, we invited management innovators from every realm of endeavor to share the most progressive practices and disruptive ideas that illustrate how the governing principles and tools of the Web can make our organizations more adaptable, innovative, inspiring, and accountable.

They did. We received more than 140 impressive Stories (instructive case studies) and Hacks (experimental designs), selected 20 stellar finalists, and announced seven winners of the Management 2.0 Challenge.

Read more about Management 2.0 in Gary Hamel’s challenge essay. You can check out the winning entries feature above, learn more about the finalists here, and explore all of the entries.

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SHIFT CHANGES THE WAY CEMEX WORKS

CEMEX is fostering innovation by changing the way employees work.

By Gilberto Garcia on July 15, 2011

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The Colleague Letter of Understanding: Replacing Jobs with Commitments

Morning Star creates a software system that serves as a commercial social network, where colleague commit to their Colleague Letter of Understanding (CLOU) to accomplish specific activities.

By Paul Green, Jr. on April 15, 2010

control

commitment

The Morning Star Company

setting strategy and direction

defining values and aspirations

coordinating activities

measuring performance

Nobody’s as Smart as Everybody—Unleashing Individual Brilliance and Aligning Collective Genius

Rite-Solutions created a state-of-the-art “innovation engine” designed to provoke and align individual brilliance toward collective genius.

By Jim Lavoie on April 8, 2010

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Managing By Commitments - 5 Disruptive Practices To Improve Execution

Failure to execute is the key 21st century management problem. Current work-norms are dysfunctional.

By David Arella on June 24, 2011

managing by commitments

accountability

Execution

performance management

organization development

workforce management

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Developing Tomorrow’s Talent: a girl, a blog, and 30 days to business impact

Trying to change company culture to one where talent development occurs informally and daily, Accenture developed the 30 Day Challenge: a social experiment using blogging, where 8650 people volunteere

By Clare Norman on July 4, 2011

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Wisdom of Crowds to Empower Beyond Budgeting

The idea of our hack wants to challenge the highly unconscious, but nothing less dominant dogma of heroic leadership, epitomizing the command and control management model.

By Michael Gebauer on June 20, 2011

Idea Market: A stock exchange metaphor for empowering collaborative innovation

At Experian Latin America, aiming to systemize innovation as a capability in an increasingly competitive market, we implemented an ideation platform that mirrors our company’s people-oriented ma

By Maria Paula Oliveira on July 5, 2011

motivation and incentives

allocating resources

human capital

Research and development

financial services

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The Deliberative Corporation

The Deliberative Corporation is a technology-supported process for sustainable decision-making. It allows any organization or governing group to consult its population.

By James Fishkin on July 18, 2011

deliberative community

managing stakeholders

academia

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Don’t Just Flatten the Organization, Make Everyone Accountable for Flattening Time-Sucking Bureaucratic Systems

Life in a large organization can often feel like a few moments of inspiration and innovation surrounded by a lifetime of sitting on conference calls, filling out forms, and creating PowerPoint decks t

By Chris Grams on June 21, 2011

It's the Culture, Stupid! How Atlassian maintains an open Information Culture.

Installing a wiki and writing a blog will instantly catapult your company into Management 2.0 heaven, right?

By John Rotenstein on June 15, 2011

Strategic Planning the Wikimedia Way: Bottom-Up and Outside-In

In 2010, the Wikimedia Foundation, a small non-profit supporting Wikipedia and related projects, turned the conventional approach to setting strategy on its head.

By Chris Grams on May 20, 2011

activism and advocacy

trust

management 2.0

company culture

setting strategy and direction

strategy

media and telecommunications

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I’ve Learned from You: The Power of Appreciative Knowledge Networks!

Let’s make the (business) world a better place by appreciating the people we have learned from!

By Frank Habermann on July 18, 2011

Knowledge Networks

knowledge sharing

Social Communities

complex adaptive systems

organizational behavior

organizational learning

Performance Measuring

Massive Storytelling Sessions

Let’s change companies’ aspirations (mission, vision and values) from static words to catalysts that can transform organizations into communities of passion!How?

By Alberto Blanco on June 26, 2011

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Everyone Innovates Everyday - Collaborative Idea Management at Ericsson

At Ericsson, a collaborative idea management tool is enabling all employees to innovate everyday across the organization.

By Magnus Karlsson on July 15, 2011

Research and development

media and telecommunications

4Comments

InnovationLive: Engaging 3M's Global Employees in Creating an Exciting, Growth-Focused Future

3M takes its Markets of the Future process from a cloistered analysis by corporate strategists to a global Web 2.0-enabled event, tapping the collective insight of 20,500 3Mers in over 60 countries.&n

By Barry K. Dayton on June 16, 2011

setting strategy and direction

managing stakeholders

strategy

consumer goods

Winners announced!

All the finalists

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