Idea championing as the missing link between idea generation and team innovation implementation

Matej Cerne; Miha Skerlavaj

doi:10.5465/ambpp.2015.16929abstract

Good Catch! Using Interdisciplinary Teams and Team Reflexivity to Improve Patient Safety

Group & Organization Management ◽

10.1177/1059601118768163 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 43 (3) ◽

pp. 414-439 ◽

Cited By ~ 9

Author(s):

Roni Reiter-Palmon ◽

Victoria Kennel ◽

Joseph Allen ◽

Katherine J. Jones

Keyword(s):

Patient Safety ◽

Fall Risk ◽

Improve Patient Safety ◽

Interdisciplinary Teams ◽

Innovation Implementation ◽

Practical Applications ◽

Team Innovation ◽

Safety Outcome ◽

Injurious Falls ◽

Fall Rates

Interdisciplinary teams play an important role implementing innovations that facilitate the quality and safety of patient care. This article examined the role of reflexivity in team innovation implementation and its association with an objective patient safety outcome, inpatient fall rates (a fall is an unintended downward displacement of a patient’s body to the ground or other object). In this study, we implemented, supported, and evaluated interdisciplinary teams intended to decrease fall risk in 16 small rural hospitals. These hospitals were part of a collaborative that sought to increase knowledge and facilitate reflexivity about fall event reporting and fall risk reduction structures and processes. We assessed team reflexivity at the start and at the end of the 2-year intervention and innovation implementation at the end of the intervention. The 16 hospitals reported objective fall event data and patient days throughout the project, which we used to calculate comparative rates for assisted, unassisted, and injurious falls. The results suggest that teams benefited from the intervention, increasing reflexivity from the start of the project to the end, which was related to innovation implementation and decreases in fall rates. Theoretical and practical applications of the results are discussed.

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Innovation in Work Teams

The Oxford Handbook of Group Creativity and Innovation ◽

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190648077.013.14 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 230-251

Author(s):

Jakob Stollberger ◽

Michael A. West ◽

Claudia A. Sacramento

Keyword(s):

Organizational Effectiveness ◽

Organizational Context ◽

Work Teams ◽

Idea Generation ◽

Input Process ◽

Team Processes ◽

Team Innovation ◽

Output Structure ◽

Process Output

Researchers and practitioners have recognized the importance of team innovation for organizational effectiveness. This chapter provides an overview of the factors that influence team innovation using an input–process–output structure. It identifies factors relating to the team and organizational context as inputs for various team processes that translate into innovative outputs. It further suggests that leadership acts as a contingency factor that facilitates the transition of input factors into team processes. Highlighting the often-overlooked difference between idea generation and idea implementation as part of team innovation, it discusses which input factors and processes are more likely to exert more influence over idea generation and/or idea implementation. It concludes by emphasizing the importance of implementing creative ideas for achieving innovation success.

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What Managers Find Important for Implementation of Innovations in the Healthcare Sector - Practice Through Six Management Perspectives

International Journal of Health Policy and Management ◽

10.34172/ijhpm.2021.146 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Klas Palm ◽

Ulrika Persson Fishier

Keyword(s):

Social Services ◽

Research Question ◽

Idea Generation ◽

Healthcare Sector ◽

Innovation Implementation ◽

Enabling Factors ◽

Implementation Phase ◽

Implementation Project ◽

Theoretical Perspectives ◽

Implementation Of Innovations

Background There is a growing expectation that many health organisations will implement innovations. One obstacle for innovative ideas to have an impact on the healthcare system in practice seems to be difficulties in the implementation phase. There is a lack of concretization of theoretical perspectives related to implementation of innovations. The research question answered by this article is: Which enabling factors can facilitate the specific step of moving from idea generation to implementation in a healthcare context? Methods The research was carried out with a qualitative action research methodology where the researchers took part in the innovation implementation project. The authors of this article were part of a collaborative innovation implementation project involving approximately 54 practitioners. The project was run by five stakeholders: 1) the Division of Assistive Technology in the Dalarna County Council Regional Healthcare Administration 2) the Habilitation Division 3) the Division for Home Care and Social Services in the municipality of Leksand 4) Dalarna University and 5) Uppsala University. Through a ‘Pearl growing’ technique six implementation management perspectives were, as a framework, identified and presented for the practitioners. The practitioners worked further to concretize these six perspectives. Data was collected through five workshops and collaborations between the researchers and the practitioners. Data was clustered regarding what the managers want to achieve within these six perspectives (ideal situation) and the main means for reaching this situation. Results The study underlying this article generated 35 concrete enabling factors for successful innovation implementation, distributed over the initially presented six theoretical perspectives. Conclusion Concretizing management principles into enabling factors shows, on the one hand, that the theoretical principles have practical value, but on the other that they must be adopted to the specific circumstances of each organization, and that too abstract principles can hardly be operationalized.

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Dreamlike and Playful Virtual Environments to Inspire Children’s Divergent Thinking

Journal of Media Psychology Theories Methods and Applications ◽

10.1027/1864-1105/a000279 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 1-11

Author(s):

Jérôme Guegan ◽

Claire Brechet ◽

Julien Nelson

Keyword(s):

Virtual Environments ◽

Divergent Thinking ◽

Idea Generation ◽

Combined Processes ◽

Office Environment ◽

School Aged Children

Abstract. Computers have long been seen as possible tools to foster creativity in children. In this respect, virtual environments present an interesting potential to support idea generation but also to steer it in relevant directions. A total of 96 school-aged children completed a standard divergent thinking task while being exposed to one of three virtual environments: a replica of the headmistress’s office, a replica of their schoolyard, and a dreamlike environment. Results showed that participants produced more original ideas in the dreamlike and playful environments than in the headmistress’s office environment. Additionally, the contents of the environment influenced the selective exploration of idea categories. We discuss these results in terms of two combined processes: explicit references to sources of inspiration in the environment, and the implicit priming of specific idea categories.

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