Corporate Innovation Management: Organizational Challenges

Continuing with our discussion on corporate innovation methodology, in this piece, I want to highlight a couple of key organizational challenges: (1) How do ideas flow into execution, (2) Where are the push backs? Let me call out another specific point from my previous article, Corporate Innovation Management – A Methodology Discussion, that addresses the

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Corporate Innovation Management: Unstructured Time

Google became a pioneer in the domain of corporate innovation some years ago by introducing the notion of 20% unstructured time in which employees could work on whatever they wanted. Other large enterprises followed along, and started experimenting with their own interpretations of unstructured time. Most came to the conclusion, including Google itself, that completely

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