TEAM INNOVATION

Is it possible for us to notify which part of our body is more important than the other? If one has to answer, one would say; for a perfect healthy person all the body parts are equally important. A healthy organization recognizes this analogy & carefully builds and nurtures Team innovation. The TEAM INNOVATION has four important constituents.


The Idea Generator:

A person, who is a non-linear thinker, loves to make connections, is passionate all forms of knowledge, full of energy, is happy in groups, act as a neuron connecting cells (teams) and has insatiable appetite for KNOWING. Someone who sees those connections and patterns that are not obvious. Idea generators are impatient with constraints and unafraid to say what they think. She looks at everything with a fresh eye. She is an idea blotter who blots ideas from the world around her using every possible channel of communication. She makes connection between these ideas, plays a role of innovation coach, facilitator. The idea generator helps her organization net ideas from its heart counts and act as a bridge to the outside world. She helps her organization nurture & grow culture of Innovation. (More on this in my earlier post Role of an Innovation Facilitator).

The Project Manager:

Think type A person with a sense of humor. They need to be disciplined, attentive to detail, and able to organize complexity. A project manager who lacks social skills will be seen as a nag, not a leader and provoke guerrilla resistance.

The Executor:

People who make things happen, come what may. If you don’t execute, the stakeholders don’t care what the strategy was. Execution is the only strategy they see.

The Leader:

The leader needs to create culture where members can express their ideas freely. Leaders need not be a leading expert; they need to understand both the product and market. They should able to attract people with diverse backgrounds culturally & professionally. The most important part is, leaders must always think of IDEAL.ITY and relentlessly pursue all the actions to overcome problems that act as impediments in achieving it.