If the age of assuming that innovation requires physical proximity is behind us, with innovative companies full embrace of virtual teams and the role of technology, what comes next? One executive who leads a 50-person innovation group as part of a 15,000-employee organization said, The pandemic made us realize that we never needed a swanky and costly innovation studio to do our work. What we want is community. His plans are to make virtual work permanent, with monthly or quarterly in-person gatherings to strengthen trust, friendship, and connection. How many more innovators will adopt this approach? Will bringing together the best of remote practices and the best of in-person experiences accelerate innovation even further? Lets start experimenting to find out.

Recommend appropriate interventions that organisations may implement to adopt the above approach