Releasing the Cheetahs
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The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the debate on the seemingly dichotomy between structure and chaos in the innovation literature. The paper illustrates how organizations simultaneously use rigid plans and remain flexible, by deliberate but unplanned initiations of small temporary teams in order to solve non-predicted problems. This phenomenon is labeled " cheetah teams ". Anchored in three qualitative case studies, the paper analyzes the effects of using cheetah teams to manage the unplanned qualities of product development projects. The conclusion is that effective project planning is built on the assumption that the unplanned will be managed on an ad hoc basis during project execution. Cheetah teams constitute an example of one such ad hoc mechanism.
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