3D Agile Leader Model — Intrapreneur: Ideation

Based on 3D Agile Leader Model, the three dimensions required of a “solid” agile leader — Servant Leader, Value Creator, and Intrapreneur — are the three critical roles a manager must assume in order to become an agile leader. Each dimension comprises three themes. The third dimension is Intrapreneur, and the first theme of this dimension is Ideation.

Ideation contains two broad kinds of activities — generating ideas, and then qualifying the ideas in order to prioritize them.

Generating ideas

No doubt, ideation has to start from generating ideas.

A good idea always addresses one or more strategic drivers.

An agile leader enables idea generation with three types of strategic drivers in mind. These drivers establish the playgrounds for generating ideas and at the same time create boundaries around these playgrounds to set good ideas apart from bad ones.

The first type of strategic driver is to solve an organization’s recurring and complex challenges that can’t be solved in usual ways. For example, a public transport…