Assume the role of the leader of the team you work for, analyze how your team can contribute to the innovation strategy of your organization and make an innovation training for all team members*. Your Team Innovation Training should (1) thoroughly describe key innovation concepts, (2) set team innovation goals, and (3) plan the team innovation strategy.

* Choose a team from a company familiar with.

Directions

Importance of innovation

Start your training with a discussion on the importance of innovation to the organization, to the team, and to each person individually

Firm's Current Position

Describe the current market position of your firm

Visually present your firm's core competencies, core products/services, and business units

Firm's desired position

Identify the desired market position of your firm

Visually represent the gaps in resources and capabilities, or the lack thereof, for achieving the desired position

Team's contribution to the desired position

Accomplish a balanced scorecard for the desired firm's position, addressing success factors and critical measurements for the financial, customer, internal, and innovation learning perspectives

Identify which of the perspectives your team can contribute to and how

Emphasize the value-chain activities your team has responsibility for

Structure & Innovation Capacity

Explain the structure of your firm, including the levels of centralization, formalization, standardization, and type of structure

Show visually where your team falls in the organization's chart

Analyze the effects of structure on your team's capacity to innovate

Culture & Innovation Capacity

Emphasize the governing organizational cultural norms

Discuss the specific to the team norms or the lack thereof

Explain how the existing norms affect the team's capacity to innovate

Please provide references