How to Manage and Reduce Your Innovation Risk
In the world of venture capital, understanding and weighing risk is core to assessing any business opportunity. For corporate innovation, assessing risk is just as crucial, if not more: corporate innovation...
Stop Slowing Down Your Innovation Projects
Disruption of markets worldwide has proven that speed is an important attribute of strong innovators. Companies that aren’t optimized for speed often don’t generate the returns on innovation and product...
Stop Asking Your Team to Innovate Like Entrepreneurs… Until You Make Decisions Like VCs
Corporate innovation teams are taught in their organizations, and in the media and classes, to act like entrepreneurs navigating risk in a new venture or idea. But entrepreneurs usually work in partnership...
The Challenge of Measuring Innovation
Since 1955, the average lifespan of an S&P 500 company has decreased by 44 years. And in the last 15 years alone, 52% of S&P 500 companies have disappeared. Whichever way you slice it, it’s never been...
Are Your Breakthrough Innovations Failing to Break Out?
It is always difficult to develop an early idea, earn revenues, and exit. This struggle is especially true whenever firms fall in love with that new idea and manage (and fund) it like a traditional project. There’s an alternative path, though.
