Communication
The Role of Innovation Teams in Driving Organizational Success
Marali Gosh*
Issue:
Volume 9, Issue 2, December 2025
Pages:
19-23
Received:
13 March 2025
Accepted:
25 March 2025
Published:
29 August 2025
Abstract: In an era of rapid digital transformation and heightened market competition, organizations increasingly rely on innovation teams to sustain growth and remain competitive. These specialized, cross-functional groups are designed to generate, refine, and implement novel ideas across products, services, and business processes. Despite their centrality to organizational success, the literature lacks a consolidated and practical overview, creating barriers for both scholars and practitioners. This paper addresses this gap by synthesizing key insights into the composition, strategies, and challenges of innovation teams, while also exploring emerging contexts such as crowdsourcing, open-source collaboration, and top management team (TMT) influence. We identify the defining characteristics of successful innovation teams, including diversity in expertise, strong leadership, collaborative culture, agile methodologies, and adequate resources. At the same time, we highlight persistent challenges such as resistance to change, resource limitations, unclear objectives, and interdepartmental conflicts. The analysis underscores the importance of team diversity, transactive memory systems, and member familiarity as critical enablers of team performance, while recognizing their potential drawbacks. Furthermore, we examine how team-based dynamics within crowdsourced projects and open-source software initiatives extend traditional innovation models, offering new avenues for distributed problem-solving. Drawing on illustrative case studies from leading organizations, this paper outlines strategies to enhance innovation team effectiveness, including fostering a culture of experimentation, leveraging technology, supporting continuous learning, and ensuring alignment with organizational objectives. Ultimately, by integrating theoretical insights with practical approaches, this study provides a comprehensive framework for understanding and optimizing innovation teams as vital engines of sustainable organizational success.
Abstract: In an era of rapid digital transformation and heightened market competition, organizations increasingly rely on innovation teams to sustain growth and remain competitive. These specialized, cross-functional groups are designed to generate, refine, and implement novel ideas across products, services, and business processes. Despite their centrality ...
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Research Article
Policy Coherence for the Creation of Sustainable Communities Through Mixed Use Developments in Ghana: Implications for Sustainable Community Development
Issue:
Volume 9, Issue 2, December 2025
Pages:
33-55
Received:
14 May 2025
Accepted:
3 September 2025
Published:
25 September 2025
Abstract: This research investigated the extent of policy consistency in Ghana's national urban planning policy documents and development framework. It highlights the role of urban policies in enabling the implementation of sustainable communities. Adopting a qualitative content analysis method, the study analyses strategic alignment of seven policy documents using the PCD framework that focused on five drivers of sustainable communities, namely environmental conservation and resilience, social equity and inclusivity, economic prosperity and innovation, smart urban planning and design, and community engagement and participation. The Institutional Analysis and Development (IAD) framework enabled the identification of alignment, fragmentation, and conflict across policy instruments and governance structures. The findings show some degree of policy coherence in promoting land use efficiency, minimising urban sprawl, fostering compact developments, and boosting local economic growth. However, significant gaps persist. These gaps include the absence of explicitly stated institutional mandates for the implementation of MUD, misalignment between urban and transportation policies, and social injustice and exclusion. Furthermore, the study divulges that the cross-referencing of policy documents is inadequate, resulting in disjointed implementation, fragmented development efforts and governance challenges. The study concludes that the inconsistencies in Ghana's national urban policies significantly impede the attainment of sustainable community development prospects.
Abstract: This research investigated the extent of policy consistency in Ghana's national urban planning policy documents and development framework. It highlights the role of urban policies in enabling the implementation of sustainable communities. Adopting a qualitative content analysis method, the study analyses strategic alignment of seven policy document...
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