Idea Time with Dr. Jo North
Build a Successful Innovation Team
Published: 7 December 2023 at 00:00 Europe/London
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🚀 Build a Successful Innovation Team 🚀
🎥 🎙️ In this week’s Idea Time show, I explore how to build an innovation-driven team.
Highlights are:
- Innovation as a Core Value: Essential for product development, adding technical, process, and functional value.
- Innovation Time Off (ITO): Learn from Google, 3M and others . Balance innovation and productivity.
- Set the Innovation Stage: Effective communication and real-life examples to spark creativity.
- Lean Start-up Approach: Validating ideas early with a Build-Measure-Learn cycle.
- Diverse Team Composition: Diversity fuels creativity. Importance of a guiding team leader.
- Skills for Innovation Teams: Creative, critical thinking, empathy, curiosity, problem-solving, and collaboration.
- Sustaining Innovation Culture: Top management’s role in fostering an ongoing innovative environment.
