The Organizational Network Fieldbook: Best Practices, Techniques, and Exercises to Drive Organizational Innovation and Performance
by Rob Cross, Jean Singer, Sally Colella, Robert J. Thomas, Yaarit Silverstone
14.1. Innovation Lab Overview
The Innovation Lab consisted of a series of five workshops in which we engaged a group of creative thinkers in educational, brainstorming, and hands-on problem-solving activities. Through the workshops, participants learned about the principles of innovation, flexed their creative muscles with new idea-generating techniques, and applied their collective intelligence to develop recommended courses of action for IT&S—all the while building up their networks for continued innovation.
The key players in the Innovation Lab were a core group of "innovators," a sponsor, subject matter experts (SMEs) on innovation and networks, and facilitators. We, the authors of this chapter, were external consultants engaged to design ...
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