Tournaments 101 : a primer for innovators -- In-house sources : generating opportunities internally -- Outside sources: sensing opportunities externally -- Elimination round : screening opportunities -- Strategic fit : pulling opportunities from strategy -- Short-term profitability : analyzing...

In a wide variety of organizational settings, teams generate a number of possible solutions to a problem, and then select a few for further investigation. We examine the effectiveness of two creative problem solving processes for such tasks - one, where the group works together as a team (the...