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Manager's guide to fostering innovation and creativity in teams /
For any organization competing today, nothing is more important than building teams of creative thinkers and problem solvers. With practical, simple-to-implement leadership techniques, Manager's Guide to Fostering Innovation and Creativity in Teams explains how you can ? Create an environment t...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, N.Y. :
McGraw-Hill Education,
[2010]
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| Edición: | First edition. |
| Colección: | McGraw-Hill's AccessEngineering.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface
- 1. The innovative organization
- The three arenas of innovation competence
- Categories of innovation: finance, process, offerings, delivery
- Manager's checklist for chapter 1
- 2. Innovation 101
- Use the right process for the problem
- Innovative problem solving
- Role of divergent and convergent thinking
- The five pitfalls that hinder innovation
- Skills needed by new product team leaders
- Manager's checklist for chapter 2
- 3. Creative thinking
- Cultivating natural creativity
- Ideas from brainstorming
- The ladder of abstraction and idea generation
- Ideas from pattern-breaking thinking
- Ideas from suggestion systems
- Triz?left-brained idea generation
- Manager's checklist for chapter 3
- 4. Process of innovative problem solving
- Phases of the process
- Example of success: an international publisher
- Example of success: whirlpool corporation
- Example of success: united way
- Attributes of successful facilitators of innovation
- Manager's checklist for chapter 4
- 5. Developing a challenge statement
- Understand the situation
- Craft the challenge statement
- Clarify what you really want?the four quadrants
- Manager's checklist for chapter 5
- 6. Defining the right problem
- Wibni?the self-seeking process
- Conversion to problem statements
- The magic of criteria in the selection process
- Selecting the right problem
- Manager's checklist for chapter 6
- 7. Brainstorming to empty the box
- The process
- Manager's checklist for chapter 7
- 8. Thinking out of the box: breaking patterns
- Experience the power of pattern-breaking thinking
- Requirements for pattern-breaking thinking
- Creative thinking tools
- Idea pool
- Manager's checklist for chapter 8
- 9. Convergence and implementation
- Staged criteria process
- Convergence process
- Opportunity for personal commitment
- Idea implementation
- Manager's checklist for chapter 9
- 10. Setting the climate for innovation
- The essence of the right climate
- Intrinsic motivation and extrinsic motivation
- Hygienic factors and motivating factors
- Power of intrinsic motivation
- Dimensions of the climate for innovation
- Implement ideas
- Manager's checklist for chapter 10
- 11. Leading innovation in teams
- Develop a social contract to set expectations
- Ensure organizational alignment
- Maximize the value of a compelling mission/vision
- Lead change
- Create a self-sustaining culture of innovation
- Manager's checklist for chapter 11
- 12. Getting the right people into the right jobs
- Jobs are all about solving problems
- Job demand for problem-solving style
- Jobs on a continuum
- Calculating coping energy, e = dt
- Options for dealing with coping stress
- Styles on a team
- Valuing the differences in problem-solving style
- Making problem-solving style diversity work for your team
- Manager's checklist for chapter 12
- 13. Coaching for innovation
- Flexibility in leadership style
- Four leadership styles for creativity and innovation
- Caring creates curiosity and discovery
- Theory x and theory y and the leadership style continuum
- What about the team members' perspective?
- Making the transformation to coach leader
- Transformation at a financial institution
- Practices for transforming to a coach leader
- Demonstrating caring led to breakthroughs
- Breakthrough products at a major u.s. Corporation
- Leader coaches involve people all the way
- Manager's checklist for chapter 13
- A. Worksheets
- Worksheet #1. Clarifying benefits
- Worksheet #2. Overcoming concerns
- Worksheet #3. Identify critical tests
- Worksheet #4. Tree diagram
- Worksheet #5. Who will do what by when?.