There are many ways of doing ‘peer assist’ in Idea Work: Demand driven, unvarnished and supportive assistance for colleagues on work in progress.
Each of these examples conveys a set of practices for doing peer assist – ranging from informal one-to-one discussions to deliberately staged workshops with 30-40 participants. The examples also vary with regards to stage in innovation – from giving birth to seedlings of the new, to doing post mortems.
The Peer Assists are all grounded in some concrete set of experiences – a way of working that has been tested and found useful in one or more organizations. These experiences are gleaned either from the Idea Work partners or from some outside documented research and are merely prototypes.