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Building a successful innovation team can seem like a daunting process, but what if you could remove the guesswork with a simple, step-by-step strategy? Christopher Bailey, Senior Product Manager & Innovator at Exxon Mobil, pulls from his experience and discusses the three steps he thinks are integral to build an innovation team.

Table Of Contents

Chapter 1: Introduction
Christopher Bailey, Senior Product Manager & Innovator at Exxon Mobil explains his role and background.
Chapter 2: Purpose
What's the importance of choosing a purpose? The sense of purpose is something to focus on at the beginning and identify, whether or not you are an Innovation enablement team or innovation execution team. Understand the problem you are trying to solve. Christopher goes into depth a guide to getting internal buy-in to build an innovation team.
Chapter 3: People
What kinds of people do you need to build an innovation team? Christopher breaks down the nonconventional attributes that are needed for an innovator and explains 4 different archetypes areas and how they are important in different ways to balance a team. Also explained in-depth are the roles and skills that are important to bring into an innovation team.
Chapter 4: Process
What is the process of building an innovation team? Every company is different and therefore different factors need to be taken into consideration. Christopher explains a few processes that can aid in building an innovation team, e.g. Enablement team vs the execution team, and breaks down how each can be a great process. What opportunities and metrics are needed to understand success within a company and with your customers.
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