The Hidden Power of Messy Teams
研究发现,创新团队在项目初期保持问题定义的模糊性,并在中期澄清问题,反而能提高创新成功实施的概率。
Conventional wisdom holds that innovation teams should begin their project with a clearly defined problem in order to increase their likelihood of success. However, a study of hundreds of ad hoc teams that formed to participate in a large global company’s annual innovation competition found that those with ambiguous problem definitions at the outset who were able to clarify the problems by the project’s midpoint had a greater chance of seeing their innovations successfully implemented.