Building Innovative Teams – Strategies and Methods for Cultivating and Integrating High-Performance Innovative Teams

Author: Chris Harris (USA)
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Publish Date: 2005-01-01
Features: Over the past 20 years, Chris Harris has been engaged in project management, conceptual innovation, and consulting in the telecommunications, media, and aviation industries. He has served companies such as GEO, GTE, Rockwell Collins, and Boeing. He excels in complex system innovation and new product development performance. He has also written the book "Super Innovation" and runs his own company named "Innovation House." Chris Harris's new book fills the gap in books on creativity and innovation. Some books focus on individuals, offering guidance on how to enhance personal abilities and creativity; others focus on organizations, addressing how to align incentive systems, role models, resource allocation systems, and other elements with the organization's innovation goals. Building Innovation Teams occupies a crucial and practical middle ground, focusing on how to transform a collective of individuals into a high-performing team and making innovation a key issue for the team. This book provides a broader perspective on our efforts and offers practical advice. It is highly readable with a fresh style. Innovation is vital for ensuring competitive advantage and achieving business success. However, many organizations still find innovation challenging. This book adopts a unique approach, focusing on how to transform team innovation capabilities into company performance. It starts with the motivation for innovation and the exploration of the creative process, validating how teams collaborate to generate creative team value and explaining how a company can organize and lead innovative teams. Finally, based on numerous exercises, the book demonstrates how to design innovative team projects and evaluate performance. The goal of this book is to provide a practical model for building innovation teams. I emphasize the word "practical" because it is designed as a tool, intended for future application and reference. The target audience for this book includes executives, managers, and senior staff in the business sector, as well as those in administrative, educational, and public service institutions.