Teaming for Innovation January 11, 2011

Every Tues, 6:15 pm - 9:15 pm Jan 11- Feb 22, 2011 (7 sessions)

The word "innovation" usually triggers thoughts of hot new products or cool new services. In reality, innovation can be applied to processes, business models, market position, or organization design. And who comes up with these ideas? The lone inventor- or so most people believe. The truth is, innovation is a team sport, more like baseball than golf.

Want to learn how to create successful innovative teams? Mini-lectures, guest speakers, and numerous hands-on activities will help you learn about and experience the relationship between creativity and innovation, obstacles to innovation and how to overcome them, techniques to enhance your innovativeness, contributions and challenges of teaming for innovation, and methods to tap group genius. Whether you are currently part of a team, planning to build a team, or simply curious about how teamwork works, you will get lots of tools and information you can use.

FRANCINE GORDON, Ph.D. CEO of F Gordon Group

Francine Gordon is an organization consultant & executive coach who helps companies become more innovative by improving team effectiveness. Before starting her own business, she spent over five years as manager at Boston Consulting Group (BCG). Clients have included Global 500 companies in high technology, finance, biotechnology, industrial goods, and pharmaceuticals in North America, Europe and Asia. Earlier in her career she was an assistant professor of Organization Behavior at Stanford Graduate School of Business. While there, she co-edited Bringing Women Into Management (McGraw-Hill). Gordon received a PhD in Organizational Behavior from Yale University.

Official Website: https://continuingstudies.stanford.edu/courses/course.php?cid=20102_BUS%20198