Build a Successful Innovation Team

Idea Time Innovation with Dr. Jo North

Dec 7 2023 • 24 mins

🚀  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.