Assemble the Dedicated Team: Seven Common Traps to Avoid When Building an Innovation Team
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- Synopsis
- It's surprisingly easy for companies to stumble when they assemble a dedicated team to work on an innovation initiative. In this chapter, the authors suggest three initial steps: 1) Identify the skills you need; 2) Hire the best people you can find; and 3) Match the organizational model to the dedicated team's job. The authors then list the seven most common pitfalls innovation leaders are likely to encounter as they assemble their teams; for example, having a bias for insiders, applying existing formal definitions of roles and responsibilities, or failing to allow the team to define its own culture. The chapter concludes with three examples of companies-Dow Jones (now News Corporation), Thomson Corporation (now Thomson Reuters), and Lucent (now Alcatel-Lucent)-that have built winning innovation teams. This chapter was originally published as Chapter 2 of "The Other Side of Innovation: Solving the Execution Challenge."
- Copyright:
- 2010
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- Publisher:
- Harvard Business Publishing
- Date of Addition:
- 08/03/16
- Copyrighted By:
- HBS Press
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Business and Finance
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.