Johnsson How to create high-performing innovation teams

1. Auflage 2022
ISBN: 978-3-11-073201-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 191 Seiten

Effective team work is essential if innovation projects are to succeed. provides practical guidance and advice on how to create high-performing teams regardless of type or size of company, organization, or public institution. It offers the reader pivotal tools and insights to use in practice.

Both the theory and practice for creating high-performing innovation teams are discussed and new tools and insights are provided for managers, consultants, and academics. It answers the call for rapid innovation to respond to the increasingly changing market and to shorter product life cycles.

addresses specifically the factors that enable innovation work from the perspective of the organization, the innovation team, and its members. In addition to co-located innovation teams, the book also discusses the differences among global organizations and what to consider in the creation of global high-performing innovation teams.

Zielgruppe

Top- and middle management; Practitioners & consultants providing

Autoren/Hrsg.

Johnsson, Mikael

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Bereichsspezifisches Management Management: Führung & Motivation
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management Forschung & Entwicklung (F&E), Innovation
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management Unternehmensorganisation & Entwicklungsstrategien
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management Unternehmensführung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Index Prologue 1. Introduction and background Reading instructions

The purpose of this book – a guideline and hands-on methodology Innovation – do or die

Planning your innovation portfolio

Incremental and radical innovation

The danger of too slim organizations

Shorter and shorter Product life cycles are – speed up innovation work

Innovate for the future The group development process and its problems – waste of time

Team building the right way

Group or team – it’s not the same! Know the difference

The group development process: forming, storming, norming, performing, and dissolving

Creating high-performing innovation teams - a methodology Summary Questions for reflection and discussion: Management-, Team- and Team member perspective 2. Organizational conditions for innovation work Innovation enablers – factors that enable innovation

Innovation enablers in three perspectives – the organization, the team and the team members

The innovation enablers effect innovation teams’ work Organizational structures and innovation teams

Industrial or post-industrial structure affect innovation capabilities The innovation process – agile work for faster results

Innovation work – not fuzzy and difficult, but more complex The facilitator – stimulating successful learning

The facilitator – when and how to support the innovation team Summary

Questions for reflection and discussion: Management-, Team- and Team member perspective 3. High-performing innovation teams in five steps

Step 1 – ensuring management commitment and support

Management is crucial for long term success

Develop understanding on innovation and innovation teams

The sponsor – key person with an important mission

Be patient, it takes time

Begin with a small project, to learn the methodology

Setting directions – invitation to creativity

Empowerment for innovation Step 2 – identification of convener

Establish conditions for long term learning

The convener is not a project manager

The convener wants change, in collaboration Step 3 – preparation of the convener

The role of the innovation facilitator

Crash course – this is what to know about

Creating the innovation team according to project focus

Keep management and sponsor updated during preparation

Manage change resistance

If it stops - restart Step 4 – create the innovation team

key persons – how to select team members

Function before personality

Criteria to fulfil by members

The power of small innovation teams

Multifunctional vs homogenous innovation teams – what’s the difference?

Avoiding internal competition in innovation teams

Effective communication for success

The innovation team – a safe place Step 5 – Kick off

Before kick off – a last check before take off

Time for action

Considering learning as an outcome

On the kick off – how to prioritize activities

Establishing the innovation team – norms and ways of working

Getting to know each other – professionally and personally

Common ownership and responsibilities – why it matters

Setting innovation related goals and sub goals

Breaking the rules – navigating in the organization

Swearing the blood pact – let’s do this, full throttle

After the kick off Summary Questions for reflection and discussion: Management-, Team- and Team member perspective 4. Innovation team's continued work The development of the innovation team – thing to watch out for

Challenges for the newly created innovation team

Avoiding isolation – Increasing collaboration for progress Questions for reflection and discussion: Management-, Team- and Team member perspective 5. Innovation teams in a global setting – working distributed Distributed high-performing innovation teams in global companies

Challenges for global companies conducting distributed innovation work Questions for reflection and discussion: Management-, Team- and Team member perspective

Über Autor(innen)

Mikael Johnsson earned his PhD 2016 at Blekinge Institute of Technology, where he developed knowledge on innovation team and factors enabling innovation team’s work. As a result, he developed methodologies and knowledge regarding how to create high-performing innovation teams. Currently, his research is on the implementation of innovation teams in various organizations, collaborating with consultancy firms while doing so. Additionally, his research is extended to explore how to create distributed high-performing innovation teams, which he does in collaboration with large global companies.

Based on his research, he published the book “High-performing innovation teams – step by step” in 2018, which is a hands-on book in Swedish on how to plan for and create innovation teams that have the potential to become high-performing.

Mikael is also lecturing at Mälardalen University, where he teaches in product development, mainly on master level, using innovation management- and the design thinking-perspective as core. Alongside his academic work, Mikael is also a management consultant, with innovation management as his main field, supporting organizations to develop their knowledge on how innovation teams can be created that take responsibility for, and are independently active in developing products and services within the organisation they work for. In addition to the theoretical knowledge that Mikael has gained, he also has practical experience. He started developing his own products back in 2002. He has several products on the market and filed a few patents in various product fields as well.