From the course: Enhancing Team Innovation
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Experimentation and team innovation
From the course: Enhancing Team Innovation
Experimentation and team innovation
- At the heart of it, innovation is about experimentation. When creating something new, you won't know at the start of the process exactly how to achieve a successful outcome. The key is treating the process as an experiment, coming up with ideas, testing new approaches, reviewing impacts and progress, and learning from each stage of development. Elon Musk is an advocate of solving problems by not assuming anything. Instead, you break an issue down into the most basic parts and build a potential solution from there in order to test an approach. Often at SpaceX, they will simulate approaches, which is part of the experimenting phase. The whole point of experimenting is learning from the results. This is how scientists develop new ideas and theories, and it works in exactly the same way in a commercial environment. Once you've gone through the idea generation stage, there are key steps involved with experimenting as a team. Firstly, deciding on what action to take, planning how to do…
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