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Reflection and team innovation

Reflection and team innovation

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Reflection and team innovation

- Imagine you've been collaborating with a team and you've created a new product which you want to start marketing to customers as soon as possible. You have a diverse thinking team, you've all collaborated in the idea generation phase, and you've tested your product with a pilot group of customers. During the experimentation phase, you gained some useful feedback which meant as a team, you were able to make some tweaks to the final product. So you're all set, ready to launch, or are you? What you've missed in the process is a focus on critical reflection. And true innovation can't occur without this. Of course, by this stage you've gathered feedback and responded to that. But a one-off reflection event isn't enough. This needs to be something that you do often and most of the time informally to enhance long-term innovation. Reflection is a habit with clear steps. First you need to critically evaluate actions and the result of these actions to get clear on what was and wasn't…

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