Gamification in innovation teams

Flourishing in Teams: Developing Creativity and Innovation

Team working offers a powerful and ubiquitous strategy for managing organizational change, and team innovation is often the manifestation of teams’ efforts to cope successfully with the changes in their work environments. Developing team innovation will enhance an organization’s ability to redirect and focus resources effectively, appropriately and more quickly than its competitors, because it ...

Factors Affecting Multifunctional Teams In Innovation Processes

Structuring the innovation process and managing multifunctional teams is a basic prerequisite successful innovation. A well-structured process gives the possibility to implement effective multifunctional teamwork. Meanwhile, multifunctional teamwork helps to optimise and accomplish the innovation process. Organizational support is necessary to achieve effective teamwork. Designing or changing t...

Organizing Innovation: Complementarities between Cross-Functional Teams

Cross-functional teams play a potentially important part in the innovation process enabling knowledge sharing, the development of trust and overcoming spatial and organizational barriers. Using a supermodularity approach, we focus on potential complementarities which may arise when cross-functional teams are used in different elements of the innovation process in UK and German manufacturing pla...

Creating, Growing, and Sustaining Efficient Innovation Teams

Economic forces such as the growing service economy and commoditization of traditional value chains have led many organizations to pursue breakthrough innovations as part of their business strategy. There has been an increased interest in collaboration and teamwork as catalysts of innovation, often without a clear understanding of the different kinds of teams that can be used to foster innovati...

The Ludic Drive as Innovation Driver: Introduction to the Gamification of Innovation