Innovation in Teams

Jeff Yacup

Recapping Last Week

Elements of Powerful Partnership

• Complementary Strengths
• A Common Mission
• Fairness
• Trust
• Acceptance
• Forgiveness
• Communicating
• Unselfishness

From The Power of Two by R. Wagner & G. Muller

Marshmallow Challenge

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Summary

• Specialized skills matter
• Higher stakes lead to poorer results
• Every project has its own marshmallow
• The iterative process leads to better results

Introducing Design Thinking

Stanford d-School Design Thinking Process

• Empathize: work to understand people within the context of the challenge. We need to understand how things are done and why they are done
• Define: Define the challenge at hand. Craft a meaningful actionable problem statement. This is the guiding statement to address the issue.
• Ideate: Concentrate on idea generation...go wide for concepts and outcomes
• Prototype: Generation of artifacts aimed at solving the challenge at hand. Should be able to be interacted with. Prototype if you're right.
• Test: Solicit feedback about prototypes, which will allow greater understanding of user and make changes to prototype. Test as if you're wrong.

Application of Model

• Scenario A: Clean drinking water, Flint
• Scenario B: Lack of electricity, Puerto Rico
• Scenario C: Decline of quality teachers, U.S.
• Scenario D: Food shortage, China