Objective To maintain and enhance their effectiveness within rapidly changing environment, organizations need to continuously develop creative products processes and services and implement them within budget and quality constraints. To achieve this goal, organizations increasingly rely on teams, consisting of members with different knowledge, skills and perspectives. Paradoxically, the processes leading to idea creation and implementation may contradict each other. Idea creation requires flexibility, out-of-the-box thinking, exploration, risk taking and tolerance of mistakes. Idea implementation, in contrast, happens within organizational constraints and includes promoting the idea through the acceptable channels, prototyping, testing, and assuring that the products, processes or services are reliable and meet customers’ requirements. The first objective of the proposed project is to examine whether teams can improve their innovation capabilities by learning how to reconcile the contradictory requirements, inherent in the innovation process. The second objective is to distinguish between different types of organizational constraints (i.e. structural vs. process constraints) and test their effect on team innovation. The third objective is to compare three managerial approaches for managing strategic contradictions (i.e. ambidexterity, sequential and hybrid) and test their effect on team innovation. The suggested project will be conducted in a laboratory setting using a product development simulation. In Phase 1, three-member teams will be asked to develop a creative product while adhering to cost and/or quality constraints. In Phase 2, three-member teams will be trained to manage contradictory requirements using one of three managerial approaches, and then will perform the product development task. The primary dependant variables will be creativity and adherence to constraints. In addition, possible mediating team processes will be examined. Programme(s) FP7-PEOPLE - Specific programme "People" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013) Topic(s) FP7-PEOPLE-2009-RG - Marie Curie Action: "Reintegration Grants" Call for proposal FP7-PEOPLE-2010-RG See other projects for this call Funding Scheme MC-IRG - International Re-integration Grants (IRG) Coordinator TECHNION - ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY EU contribution € 100 000,00 Address SENATE BUILDING TECHNION CITY 32000 Haifa Israel See on map Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Mark Davison (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data Participants (1) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY Participation ended Israel EU contribution No data Address BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY CAMPUS 52900 Ramat Gan See on map Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Isser Israel Peer (Dr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data
