With the ever-increasing complexity of systems, most managers and engineers understand that innovation and solutions require collaboration among multiple contributors. To facilitate harnessing the power of the group, group flow is conducive to efficient and creative work, energizes and engages team members, and supports each of the principles for agile development and design thinking.Group flow occurs when all members of a group are mutually experiencing flow (also called "being in the zone"), with the group's task demanding equal focus and effort from all members. The outcome of engaging group flow is to achieve something greater and more rapidly than each member could do on his or her own: creative solutions, genuine innovation, and decisions with profitable results.Group flow requires autonomy to define the goal and methodology, a protective environment, and tools to direct the focus of group members. By implementing the methodologies in this paper, the transformative systems engineer and leader will begin to see more engagement by employees and a proliferation of profitable new ideas. The author and members of the INCOSE Transformational Systems Engineering Caucus have experienced that a culture conducive to group flow holds immense potential for reward as the genesis of innovation.
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