Team Member

Your contribution as a team member in a project team is crucial for the success of your innovation project. You will help shape the future of your organisation and best news is - you can be right at the center of where this future will be shaped! Take a closer look at the team members important role including responsibilities and key activities.

Bernhard Doll

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The Team Member is an active part of the Project Team and, thus, accountable for the results of an innovation project. He / she contributes to the success of the project with his / her expertise in engineering, sales, marketing or finance, whilst running through the innovation process. It is essential that the Team Member is trained in Business Design and the specific phase of the end-to-end innovation process before he / she joins a Project Team.

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As a Team Member you take responsibility for your project tasks as a member of the Project Team. That means you work very closely with your Team Manager for the coordination of activities and the other Team Members to share results, manage dependencies and prepare for workshops. In particular that means:

Preparing and participating in workshops (incl. e.g. personal preparation, ensuring availability, coordinating with line organization tasks)
Working on own content-related tasks (e.g. field research, prototyping, business case modeling) between workshops
Contribute to high-performance team work and act as a role model for others

The following table shows key activities for a Team Member for each Phase II and IV of the end-to-end innovation process:

Phase II:

Step

Activities

Step 2: Exploring Playgrounds

Get-to-know calls with the Team Coach and the Team Manager
Participating in a basic training on Business Design and the specific project format for the Project Team (and the Sponsor) and ramp-up training for the Team Manager
Participating in the Kick-off Workshop with the Team Coach
Executing your tasks during the Research Phase
One-on-one calls with Team Manager (as needed)
Participating in the Review Workshop with the entire Project Team
Consolidating of all gathered information as preparation of the Consolidation Workshop
Participating in the Consolidation Workshop with the entire Project Team
Preparation of final documentation with the entire Project Team

Phase IV:

Step	Activities
Step 1: Setup	Get-to-know calls with the Team Coach and the Team Manager Participating in a basic training on Business Design for the Project Team (and the sponsor) and ramp-up training for Team Managers
Step 2: Discover	Participating in a Kick-off Workshop Optional: Team-building exercise Working on own tasks Joining the Weekly Status Calls Preparing the Design Workshop (see before)
Step 3: Design	Participating in the Design Workshop (be prepared !) Optional: Participating in a dedicated Validate workshop (if time was not sufficient in the Design workshop) Working on own tasks
Step 4: Validate	Working on own tasks Joining the Weekly Status Calls Optional: Reflecting the feedback from regular Sponsor's Sneak Preview (every 2-3 weeks) with the project team Optional: Participating in Validate activities (e.g. field research, prototyping) Optional: Participating in GTD - Workshops Optional: Connecting with external experts (e.g. start-ups, engineering experts) Optional: Briefing the engineers and designers for Prototyping Preparing and participating in the Review Workshop Preparing the final presentation / management proposal to the sponsor on the Decide Workshop
Step 5: Decide	Delivering the final presentation at the Decide Workshop to the sponsor Recapping the feedback from the Decide workshop and planning of next steps (e.g. next iteration)