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Table 7

Other individual stories

Participant’s name (Company)	Episode 1	Episode 2	Episode 3
Robert (Alpha)	“One year ago, I embarked into a great journey to become an innovative catalyst in the company. … I wanted to become the person that is able to guide people in the team with different vertical capabilities to collaborate better together. This could foster growth by embracing everyone’s peculiarities …”. “That’s why I committed into proposing this idea to M, my manager”	“… I understood that it is important not only to propose ideas, but also show what is the clear plan beyond them to make them more credible and concrete” “I decided to partner with my colleague A. to refine the proposal to the management team”	“… I felt more confident during the transformation because I was not alone” “… change is hard and time consuming. You are just a drop, but engaging others into your journey can become a true game changer for moving things for real”
Nada (Beta)	“It was now or never. There’s always something that will let you postpone what is important, but that was the moment. I wanted to effectively work to become an innovative leader. The problem? I did not know how …” “My team is composed of talented people and we the company already proposes mentorship programs to who wants to boost their career …” “I committed into this journey with my passion. I just wanted to offer it to my people to act as an enabler of innovation”	“…we had a set of important deliveries and I did not have time to focus on what I committed into last month” “It was an alarm. That was a priority for sure, but I did not make time for that and it just slipped out of my mind” “I decided to have a conversation with one of my team to understand how things were going”	“… I felt reinvigorated. We set up a series of meetings to keep monitoring her advancements” “… as a leader, I need to get rid of my perfectionism on myself, prototyping things out. They are just small steps, but looking behind I’ll see a road already passed by”
Yael (Gamma)	“Out of sheer curiosity I decided to well-acquiant myself with modularity principles and as I dived deeper into this I started realising how much work needed to be done in living in a sustainable way” “… it is a matter of mindset. Agility asks for fluid collaboration among different stakeholders …”	“After some pondering I realised this is the work of a team but the team does not yet exist” “Since these activities were not on anyone's priority least we decided to have a weekly meeting to ensure the said parties were making time in their busy schedules”	“… the team and supplier could identify further opportunities as need arose and inspiration enabled” “It was a small achievement but I’m more confident to keep setting this small milestones towards a modularity approach”

Participant’s name (Company)	Episode 1	Episode 2	Episode 3
Robert (Alpha)	“One year ago, I embarked into a great journey to become an innovative catalyst in the company. …I wanted to become the person that is able to guide people in the team with different vertical capabilities to collaborate better together. This could foster growth by embracing everyone’s peculiarities …”.“That’s why I committed into proposing this idea to M, my manager”	“… I understood that it is important not only to propose ideas, but also show what is the clear plan beyond them to make them more credible and concrete”“I decided to partner with my colleague A. to refine the proposal to the management team”	“… I felt more confident during the transformation because I was not alone”“… change is hard and time consuming. You are just a drop, but engaging others into your journey can become a true game changer for moving things for real”
Nada (Beta)	“It was now or never. There’s always something that will let you postpone what is important, but that was the moment.I wanted to effectively work to become an innovative leader. The problem? I did not know how …”“My team is composed of talented people and we the company already proposes mentorship programs to who wants to boost their career …”“I committed into this journey with my passion. I just wanted to offer it to my people to act as an enabler of innovation”	“…we had a set of important deliveries and I did not have time to focus on what I committed into last month”“It was an alarm. That was a priority for sure, but I did not make time for that and it just slipped out of my mind”“I decided to have a conversation with one of my team to understand how things were going”	“… I felt reinvigorated. We set up a series of meetings to keep monitoring her advancements”“… as a leader, I need to get rid of my perfectionism on myself, prototyping things out.They are just small steps, but looking behind I’ll see a road already passed by”
Yael (Gamma)	“Out of sheer curiosity I decided to well-acquiant myself with modularity principles and as I dived deeper into this I started realising how much work needed to be done in living in a sustainable way”“… it is a matter of mindset. Agility asks for fluid collaboration among different stakeholders …”	“After some pondering I realised this is the work of a team but the team does not yet exist”“Since these activities were not on anyone's priority least we decided to have a weekly meeting to ensure the said parties were making time in their busy schedules”	“… the team and supplier could identify further opportunities as need arose and inspiration enabled”“It was a small achievement but I’m more confident to keep setting this small milestones towards a modularity approach”