Ahmed Is a Project Manager for an Electronics Company That

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Ahmed is a project manager for an electronics company that manufactures digital camera sensors. When he is tasked with overseeing the development of a new sensor that is both larger and more energy efficient, he assembles a cross-functional team of talented and creative people from the engineering, design, marketing, finance, and information technology departments. Despite the high caliber of people working on the team, the level of innovation it is achieving is lower than Ahmed believes is possible. In order to increase the team's ability to innovate, Ahmed's best course of action would be to

• A)act as a sounding board for the team's concerns and step in to reprimand any members who are impeding the group's progress.
• B)supervise the team and steer it in the direction he feels it needs to go, specifically, sensors that absorb solar power.
• C)give the team room to come up with its own sensor designs, while providing guidance and resources as needed.
• D)organize the team members into pairs that focus on one aspect of the new sensors and require each pair to submit weekly progress reports.