Innovation Dream Team

Creating a successful innovation team requires carefully selecting team roles, diversity, and processes. The leader plays the most important role by giving direction, momentum, and a sense of excitement around new ideas. Additionally, having an innovation subversive who is passionate about the business and knows how to get things done is crucial. Diversity in team members' backgrounds and experiences helps bring different perspectives to innovation and creates a stronger sense of accountability. Functional, gender, and cultural diversity are essential for dream teams. Using facilitated, systematic innovation processes and a combination of ideation and group management processes, Dream Teams can produce high-quality, successful innovations.