Here's an uncomfortable truth about innovation: No matter how great your idea, you can't deliver breakthrough innovation without breakthrough organizational design. Some companies are great at finding opportunities, diagnosing what customers want, and even designing the perfect offerings to satisfy them. But even if you get all of that right, your effort will fall apart if you build the wrong team to execute.
Most companies take the team building step far too casually. To build the right kind of team, for any breakthrough innovation effort, you have to think, quite literally, as though you are building a new company from scratch. You have to discharge all of your company's rarely challenged assumptions about how the work gets done and by whom. Rather than throwing a team together based on who is most readily available, you have to build a team that is custom-designed for the task at hand. This may mean inventing new jobs, hiring new kinds of experts from the outside, and rethinking hierarchy.
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