How Best Practices Inhibit Innovation

Source: Flowtivity

In this blog entry, Dustin Hostetler suggests that focusing on best practices – or “yesterday's solutions” – gets in the way of creativity and innovation. He believes it encourages mediocrity in CPA firms, especially when firms or associations hold “best practice roundtables” with like-minded participants.

To foster innovation, Hostetler suggests that CPAs challenge “traditional paradigms,” think more creatively, and “create more diversity in thought.” Innovation, he says, “comes at the intersection of multi-disciplinary collaboration.” He encourages firms, for example, to include “rising star managers” in managing partner roundtable discussions or to bring technological neophytes into technology collaborations.

For the complete blog entry, read “Yesterday's Solutions in a Tomorrow World.”

From Flowtivity, the blog of Dustin Hostetler, June 14, 2012, http://flowtivity.com.