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Should big companies give up trying to innovate internally?

After many decades of experience leading both technology-driven and consumer-driven innovation for global MNCs across dozens of categories, and being part of many of the most transformative innovations in recent history, my friend Glenn Edens and I are convinced that it might be time for big companies to admit to ...

Why most innovation that matters happens in small companies (and why big companies eat their young).

There is one thing that almost everyone overlooks when managing innovation, and it is the one thing that is the biggest contributor to its failure — an organization’s culture. All innovation happens in “a social context,” and it is the biggest source of breakdowns, friction, and waste — and ultimately ...