Chapter 7 Assignment Example Organizational Supervisory Work group The consultants at TIER1 Performance Solutions have backgrounds in graphic design, learning and development, strategy, and statistics, just to name a few. Managers at Google tell employees to spend 20% of their time working on creative projects that will benefit the company. Google's 20% time has resulted in the development of Gmail and Google News. At McDonald's, executives support the chefs that create new menu items in the test kitchen by allowing them to live-test the new items in a few locations. Online shoe retailer, Zappos, uses system of self-management called Holacracy. Employees have autonomy over their work and are able to use their own creativity to accomplish tasks. This allows for a creative work environment. supervisory encouragement work group encouragement removal of impediments freedom Project progress needs to be reviewed at preestablished times during development called In the experiential approach to innovation, occurs when a new product is compared to an existing product. The to innovation reduces the amount of time between developmental stages and is particularly useful for incremental innovation. experiential approach compression approach creative work environment approach