The Unexpected Advantage of a Disrupted Idea

Do your ideas welcome disruption?One of the biggest challenges “successful” ideas face within the life of an organization is that they often go unchallenged the longer they stick around. This is expected since “proven” ideas don’t usually go out of their way to attract attention to their flaws or growing entropy. The reality is that all ideas, even the good ones, need to be challenged or disrupted in order to elevate their effectiveness.

Some innovative companies and organizations are developing internal teams to challenge their most proven ideas for products and services. The process could look like this:

1. Identify and gather new and/or younger voices within your organization.

2. Task them to figure out how they would “take down your idea and/or organization” by finding holes or blind spots in your approach.

3. Ask them to present their findings along with solutions for improving the current ideas in question.

Simple exercises like these can open a world of perspective for the current and future goals of an organization. In this ever-evolving world where relevant effectiveness matters, self-initiated organizational disruption could be the saving grace for the future of your mission. Don’t settle for what’s worked. Keep living forward.

Charles Lee
Charles Leehttp://CharlesTLee.com

Charles Lee, an Outreach magazine contributing editor, is the CEO of Ideation Consultancy and regularly speaks and blogs about ideation, creativity and compassionate justice. He also is a founding member and vice president of JustOne, an organization creating everyday ideas for human care in the areas of poverty, orphans and human trafficking. He is also the author of Good Idea, Now What? How to Move Ideas to Execution.

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