University:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Course:
15.501/516 | Accounting
Academic year:

2023
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492

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9
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shikaro2100u

Managing the Innovation Process Individual Contributions Overview • Take-Away • Required Readings • Supplemental Readings • Caveats 2 Take-Away • Innovation is best motivated from the inside out • Innovation is guided by roles in the organization • Innovation is a product of work strategies • Innovation is facilitated by dissent 3 (Amabile, 1988) • “A model of creativity and innovation in organizations” • Individual creativity is key to the innovation process (production of novel and useful ideas) • Intrinsic vs Extrinsic Motivation (internal vs external factors that motivate creativity) • Creativity Intersection (resources, techniques, and motivation) 4 (Roberts & Fusfeld, 1981) • “Staffing the innovative technology-based organization” • Innovation Process (1. preproject, 2. possibilities, 3. initiation, 4. execution, 5. outcome evaluation, 6. transfer) • Critical Functions (1. idea generating, 2. entrepreneuring/championing, 3. project leading, 4. gatekeeping, 5. sponsoring/coaching) • Multiple Roles and Career-Spanning Role Changes (more than one critical function at different stages in career) 5 (Kelley & Caplan, 1993) • “How Bell Labs creates star performers” • Expert Work Strategies (taking initiative, networking, self-management, teamwork effectiveness, leadership, followership, perspective, show-and-tell, organizational savvy) • Training Knowledge Professionals (implement productivity enhancement groups) • Differential Returns (woman and minorities benefited even more) 6 (Nemeth, 1997) • “Managing innovation: When less is more” • Social Control vs Innovation (execution vs going out on a limb) • Majority vs Minority Status (conformity vs dissent toward norms) • Integrating Healthy Disagreement (open doors for innovation opportunities) 7 (Shapero, 1985) • “Managing creative professionals” • Environment for Creativity (tolerating deviance from the norm) • Process of Creating (preparation, incubation, illumination, verification) • Creative Problem Solving (1. soak self in problem, 2. play with problem, 3. suspend judgment, 4. come up with two solutions, 5. when stuck…) 8 Caveats • Is there hope for the non-intrinsically motivated? • Are the five critical functions necessary for all firms? • When does training inhibit creative production? • Should dissenting majority opinion become a norm? 9