Jugaad Innovation - Jugaad King

Breaking down internal silos is critical when you are trying to quickly bring to market brilliant ideas from external sources. Few companies who have understood the importance are given below with their stories: Facebook Facebook knows this, although its subscriber base has grown to more than 80 crore users, the company still employs only about 35 designers, using a flat organizational structure. Soleio Cuervo, the second designer that Facebook CEO Mark Zucherberg hired in 2005, says “When I started, it was only a handful of product designers. Now, engineers work with us directly. We don’t throw documents at them with specs. We all focus on the site’s user experience versus the code. SAP Labs Similarly V.R. Ferose, Managing Director of SAP Labs India has set up ‘AppHaus’. An open space within the campus where designers, engineers and marketers work collaboratively & intensively on new products. Recently a small 10 member team worked around the clock in the AppHaus using limit...