Hi Alex,

Liked reading through your article. I happen to bump into this site from Google search on Innovation blogs.

Tapping into the existing community networks is a good idea. There are many process improvement and business excellence teams already doing their job in isolated business units on the same. Bringing them all together with the management commitment and aligning them to a common overarching organizational goal is the real challenge.

The overarching goal should be acceptable to everybody and is usually led by a senior VP. For eg:- A good goal could be reducing bureaucracy across the organization and the benefits attached to it.

This is akin to Innovation hubs present in many organizations.

Thank you.

regards,
Ramkumar

ramkry@gmail.com