Building innovative teams : strategies and tools for developing and integrating high performance innovative groups

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Title:

Author:

Harris, Chris.

ISBN:

9781403903860

Personal Author:

Harris, Chris.

Publication Information:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.

Physical Description:

xi, 244 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Contents:

Pt. I. The Dynamics of Innovation -- Ch. 1. The Unique Nature of Innovation -- Ch. 2. The Unique Nature of Innovative Teams -- Pt. II. The Dynamics of Building Innovative Teams -- Ch. 3. The Brain, Learnt Behaviours and Human Interaction -- Ch. 4. Creativity and Innovative Teams -- Ch. 5. Developing an Innovative Team's Whole Mind -- Ch. 6. Collaborative Learning Beyond Knowledge -- Ch. 7. Innovative Team Values -- Ch. 8. The Need for High Performance Goals and Metrics -- Ch. 9. Organising Innovative Teams -- Ch. 10. Innovative Team Leadership -- Pt. III. Innovative Team-building Performance -- Ch. 11. Designing and Executing a Team-building Programme -- Ch. 12. Profiling and Selecting Team Members -- Pt. IV. Appendices.

Abstract:

"Innovation is critical for securing competitive advantage and achieving business success. Yet, for many organisations it remains elusive. This book adopts a unique approach to innovation by focusing on how teams can deliver innovations capable of transforming their company's performance." "The book starts with the dynamics of innovation and explores the creative processes. It moves on to examine how teams can collaborate to create innovative team values and also shows how a company can organise and lead innovative teams. Finally, including many exercises, the book shows how to design innovative team programmes and measure performance."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject Term:

Teams in the workplace.

Creative ability.

Electronic Access:

Publisher description http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/hol032/2002193097.html
Table of contents http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy038/2002193097.html
Contributor biographical information http://www.loc.gov/catdir/bios/hol052/2002193097.html

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Innovation is critical for securing competitive advantage and achieving business success. Yet, for many organisations it remains elusive. This book adopts a unique approach to innovation by focussing on how teams may deliver innovations capable of transforming their company's performance. The book starts with the dynamics of innovation and explores the creative processes. It moves onto examine how teams can collaborate to create innovative team values and also shows how a company can organise and lead innovative teams. Finally, including many exercises, the book shows how to design innovative team programmes and measure performance.