Ahmed Kovacevic, City University London
Teamwork and Personality Preferences
lWorking in Teams
»Today, most new products, systems and processes are produced by teams
»Teams bring together people with different strengths to generate a better product
»Individually created items tend to be from a past era
»Most of products are multidisciplinary
Telephone - Alexander Graham Bell
Automobile - Henry Ford
Telescope – Galileo
Electric light bulb – Thomas Edison
Cell phone, Microwave oven, DVD’s, Laptop, Black Hawk helicopter,
Electric toothbrush?
These products do not have a single inventor but were developed by teams.