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Every few weeks we hear about another decades-old corporation shelling out billions for startups that were barely a blip on radar screens a year or two earlier. Notably, Walmart recently paid $3.3 billion for Jet.com and Unilever snapped up Dollar...
The open marketplace will always innovate faster than any corporation. Maxwell Wessel, general manager of SAP.io, an innovation arm within SAP, outlined a few reasons why in an article for Harvard Business Review (HBR):
Facebook. Google. Netflix. They're some of the fastest-growing, most innovative companies in the world. They are the New Age Corporations. They came to disrupt, and disrupt they did — all in less than two decades each, these tech giants have grown...
When it comes to fostering intrapreneurship with a large, complex organization, corporate innovation teams need the right balance of fearlessness, passion, and capabilities. These elements, in tandem with a long-term strategic plan, will be what...
What the heck does “corporate innovation” mean anyway? Is it a new product or business unit for a large company? Is it a new disruptive technology that an early stage startup is building? Is it about culture or talent? Is it all or none of the...
Whether it was fear or greed, an increasing number of big brands woke up and introduced internal innovation programs in 2015. And, for good reasons: fear that a new startup could launch a disruptive new technology and steal market share, pressure to...
As a whole, the millennial generation skews entrepreneurial. According to the latest Deloitte Millennial Survey, 70 percent of Millennials see themselves working independently in the future, rather than being...
Tuesday, July 19, I had the honor of moderating a fantastic event put together by Accenture Open Innovation here at RocketSpace. Over 100 people attended the Accenture event titled “Power Couples.” The panel discussion focused on corporations,...