Building the Winning Team for Innovation

Building the Winning Team for Innovation

To build a winning innovation team, it's crucial to know your people beyond their job titles and focus on their personalities and motivations. The right characters, such as connectors, salesmen, and mavens, are key to spreading your innovation strategy. Target people in influential positions that can kill your strategy, like middle management, and bring them on board by being vulnerable and giving them a place in your work. Diversity in all its forms is also crucial for innovation teams, as it brings in new ideas and perspectives.

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6 Ways to Boost Remote Collaboration

6 Ways to Boost Remote Collaboration

Learn six tips for remote collaboration from this article, including communicating clearly and often, setting communication boundaries and norms, encouraging equal participation across collaboration channels, making time for team-building, celebrating successes, and bridging the distance.

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Ways to Learn Creativity

Learn how to enhance your creativity by studying the patterns of highly innovative products and services.

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The LAB: Creating New Logistics Packaging with SIT (May 2012)

The LAB: Creating New Logistics Packaging with SIT (May 2012)

Can innovation help grow the stagnant corrugated box industry? Students from the University of Cincinnati used the SIT method to come up with concepts like the Self-expanding Box and Know Tape.

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