We kicked off the day at 7:00 AM with a Peer Breakfast an opportunity to meet with other team members who are in similar roles on other teams – Team Leaders met at one table, Research Leads at another, etc.
Prof Griffith continued our studio session on team dynamics. Dr. Furse led a studio on new product development. We studied the attributes and conditions that drive wealth creation within companies: the need for products and services to be Valuable, Rare, Difficult to Imitate, and the firm must be organized to exploit these attributes.
Professor Pace continued our Personal Branding sessions. Using the “StrengthsFinder” assessment, Accelerator participants developed their strengths profiles and shared insight with these traits with one another. After a short break, Hilary Craiglow, Rahn Huber, and Brad Cayer led the teams in a studio on research methods. Each team must produce a full bibliography of research-based support for their proposed recommendations to our partner corporations.
This group of young men and women are fully armed with i-Pods, i-Phones (some Blackberrys) and laptops – they are connected – virtually and constantly. They walk around with volumes of information (and tunes) in their heads and even more information at their fingertips. I saw this phenomenon first-hand today while they researched data for the VGT project. With lightening speed, fingers were gliding across keyboards, data was flashing on the laptop screen, and global data searches were initiated.
This afternoon, the Accelerator teams worked to finish their presentations for VGT to design a new casino game. In 3 days, these 8 teams of young men and women will present their design to the VGT executive team. We’ve begun the journey of transformation.
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Michael Burcham
Faculty Director, Accelerator 2009
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