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100 1  Sonne, Thorkil,|eauthor. 
245 14 The Dandelion Principle :|bRedesigning Work for the 
       Innovation Economy|h[electronic resource] /|cSonne, 
       Thorkil.|h[O'Reilly electronic resource] 
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264  1 |bMIT Sloan Management Review,|c2014. 
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520    In May 2013, software giant SAP announced plans to hire 
       hundreds of people diagnosed with autism, with a target of
       having people with autism represent 1% of the company's 
       work force by 2020. The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines
       autism as a developmental disorder associated with 
       "impairment of the ability to communicate with others" and
       "preoccupation with repetitive activities of restricted 
       focus." Companies don't typically seek out these 
       characteristics in new hires. But SAP took a different 
       perspective. "We share a common belief that innovation 
       comes from the 'edges,'" one SAP executive stated in the 
       company's press release. "Only by employing people who 
       think differently and spark innovation will SAP be 
       prepared to handle the challenges of the 21st century." 
       More specifically, the company had discovered that some 
       people with autism have abilities that are extremely well-
       suited to performing some vital information technology 
       tasks. SAP's move embodies an emerging management 
       principle -- the authors Robert D. Austin and Thorkil 
       Sonne call it "the dandelion principle" -- and offers an 
       alternative way of thinking about human resources 
       management. In some ways, the "dandelion principle" turns 
       some of the basic tenets about how to recruit and manage 
       people inside out. The authors use the dandelion as 
       metaphor because, they note, dandelions are actually 
       nutritious -- but are seen as weeds in the context of a 
       green lawn that demands uniformity. The industrial economy,
       the authors argue, required uniformity in operations. In 
       the industrial economy, companies could often win by 
       operating more efficiently than rivals. Today, that's no 
       longer enough. Faced with lower-cost competition from 
       developing countries, established companies also need to 
       innovate, to offer products that are better than what's 
       available from competitors. But innovation, the authors 
       observe, calls for organizational capabilities different 
       than efficiency. Efficiency requires getting people and 
       machines to mesh more smoothly; the emphasis is on parts 
       fitting in and reducing variation around averages. 
       Innovation, by contrast, involves finding new and better 
       ideas and using new processes. Managing innovation is less
       about averages and more about understanding outliers. The 
       emphasis is on increasing interesting variation, then 
       identifying value in some of the variants. In an 
       innovation-oriented economy, the authors contend, 
       companies may benefit from accommodating employees wit... 
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650  0 Creative ability in business. 
650  0 Creative thinking. 
650  0 Technological innovations. 
650  0 New products. 
650  6 Créativité dans les affaires. 
650  6 Innovations. 
650  7 Creative ability in business|2fast 
650  7 Creative thinking|2fast 
650  7 New products|2fast 
650  7 Technological innovations|2fast 
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