One of the most common impediments in the way of business innovations being successful, are handoffs. These are cases of ideas being passed on from one to another for the next part of the work to be completed. Passing the baton, leads to the bright idea being miscommunicated during the execution phase, and thus ending up merely as a mediocre product. A playbook needs to be created, which will act as the set of guidelines on how these new ideas ought to be executed. The entire process, and not merely the ideation has to be owned up by the team or person that flags it off. A lot of the gaps emerge because people do not really manage to visualize their work as part of the bigger picture. That is why the benefits of the end product need to be communicated across the chain to all the key stakeholders involved in the process.

Source:https://www.strategy-business.com/blog/Stop-Dropping-the-Baton-during-Business-Transitions?gko=9f381

Uploaded Date:02 February 2019