Jeff DeGraff is Professor of Management and Organizations at the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan. His research and writing focuses on leading innovation. He is co-author of several books including Creativity at Work, Leading Innovation and Competing Values Leadership. His PBS programInnovation You introduces his ideas about innovation to viewers across America. Jeff’s opinions on contemporary business matters are covered byNPR, CNN and Forbes just to name a few. He writes a syndicated blog forPsychology Today, the Huffington Post and Big Think. He has consulted with hundreds of the world’s most prominent firms and has developed a broad array of widely used creativity and innovation methodologies and tools. Professor DeGraff founded a leading innovation institute, Innovatrium, with labs in Ann Arbor and Atlanta. Jeff got his nickname, the Dean of Innovation, while he was a member of the executive team at Domino’s Pizza when it was one of the fastest growing businesses in the world in the 1980’s. To learn more about Jeff and his work on innovation please visit www.jeffdegraff.com. You can follow Jeff on Twitter @JeffDeGraff and Facebook.

On Innovation Navigation, Jeff DeGraff discussed his book, Making Stone Soup: How to Jump-start Innovation Teams. The book is based on the stone soup parable, how innovation works when people contribute very small but very different things. According to DeGraff, there are 4 different ingredients to innovation: a Create Type, Control Type, Compete Position, and Collaborate position.