RUME 27
2025
Alexandria, Virginia
Innovation Configuration Maps: A Tool for Guiding Team-Based Change Work in Higher Education
Page: 231
The Department Action Team (DAT) model supports groups of individuals in creating sustainable improvements to education within their department. A DAT, consisting of department members and external facilitators, works collaboratively towards a shared goal. Using innovation configuration (IC) maps we study three DATs, exploring members’ perspectives about their goals, work, and the process of actualizing goals. We examine the degree to which these groups perceived their alignment with the DAT model, and close with a discussion of how IC maps can be used as a tool to assess the alignment of team-based change work to change models.