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Shared Leadership
I often say the best thing Team Toolkit ever built was... the team itself. Team Toolkit operates with a collaborative structure where each member has a lot of room to use their strengths, to support each other, and to have fun doing it. It's a very low-ego...
TRIZ Prism Example
The TRIZ Prism tool is a powerful way to unlock a team's creativity and discover new solutions to difficult problems. It's a pretty straightforward practice to describe, but actually doing it can be a little trickier than it looks at first. The Elephant-And-Straw...
Tool Profile: Problem Framing & Journey Mapping
SCENARIO: It’s Friday morning. You’re an analyst and just received an urgent request for an analysis due Monday. You are 99% sure a colleague has done this same analysis before, but you have no idea where it was stored. Your options are 1) spend all weekend searching...
INTERVIEW: Melanie Shere
As part of our ongoing effort to democratize innovation across the company, Team Toolkit has picked up a couple of new members and branched out to new locations. One of our new members is Melanie Shere, based in MITRE’s McLean office. I sat down with Melanie to learn...
How To Get Good
The first time you swing a hammer, you're going to bend some nails and probably hit your thumb once or twice. Even though a hammer is an exquisitely simple tool, getting good at using a hammer requires practice (and if you've ever seen a master carpenter use a hammer,...
ITK Podcast Interview
Several members of Team Toolkit were recently interviewed for MITRE's new Knowledge-Driven Podcast. In this podcast series, Cameron Boozarjomehri interviews technical leaders at MITRE who have made knowledge sharing and collaboration an integral part of their...