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Articulate the strategic intent and the next stretch goal.

Build cross-functional teams, empower them, and let people in different product groups and disciplines invent the future and contribute their best to achievement of the stretch goal and the strategic intent.

 

 

   

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Silicon Valley firms make cross-functional involvement the path of least resistance.

Harley-Davidson uses cross-functional teams to design new products.

Quantum established cross-functional innovation teams to increase innovation speed.

Corning involves cross-functional innovation teams at every stage of the innovation process.

 

 

 

Beware of Underempowerment

Losing organizations fail because of their functional mindset. They lack of cross-functional goals and cross-functional collaboration spirit. Their cross-functional teams are powerless, if any. New products fail because cross-functional innovation teams are weak or insufficiently empowered.

Some Ways To Empower Cross-functional Teams

→ Build a cross-functional management team and exercise cross-functional management;

→ Empower a cross-functional focus team to improve or reinvent your business design and business model;

→ Empower a cross-functional innovation team to discover synergies between functions;

→ Establish a cross-functional new-product team and make it clear that the team is expected to undertake experimentation and risk taking, rather than incremental improvement of current products and processes;

→ See problem solving as a cross-functional systemic and collaborative approach;

→ Run all-win innovation contests where cross-functional teams compete constructively.

 

 

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Innompic Games

At INNOMPIC GAMES, the Art of Innovation is approached in a holistic A-to-Z/360 way. Innoteams are thus must be cross-functional to perform wonderfully.