IDEO Case Study
1. IDEO has a flat organization; there are no formal titles, dress codes, organizational charts or permanent job assignments. The company is made up of project teams organized around IDEO’s innovation process, which is focused on constant brainstorming and prototyping; where no idea is a bad idea, in the early stages of a project, and trial and error is an expectation on the journey to getting it right. The organization is driven by team collaboration and performance, built around creativity, innovation, and idea and information sharing to develop breakthrough products and achieve customer satisfaction by understanding customer needs and input. It is an adhocracy of two core groups tied together by IDEO’s innovation process 1. senior management responsible for strategic decisions, policies, structure, and IDEO’s process and 2. groups of empowered employees working together in teams through different phases of the IDEO process.
2. Intrinsic psychological......
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