How Innovation Activities Enhance an Organization’s Partnering Capability
After interviewing 12 large Corporate Accelerators (CAs) and their teams, one key insight emerged: the “acceleration” in corporate acceleration is as much about speeding up…
Category: Innovation
Marketing Became Indispensable to Corporations. Can Innovation Follow Suit?
If the primary purpose of business is to create customers, then the foundational functions should be marketing and innovation—the two essential entrepreneurial activities highlighted by…
AI is a Magic Wand, How Can We All Become Wizards?
🪄I’ve been thinking and thinking about the possibilities of AI as a magic wand. So many possibilities when we approach LLMs as makers! But also:…
Making Corporate Accelerators Work: Lessons for Sustained Innovation and Longevity
As a Disney employee working in the enterprise technology group, I observed first-hand the challenges of maintaining relevance in today’s fast-paced environment, and the difficulty…
What Corporates Can Do to Help an Innovation Ecosystem Thrive – and Why They Should Do It
Abstract Given the pace of change in nearly every aspect of society, transformative innovation is imperative. At the same time transformation is very difficult for…
Illumina Accelerator: Next-Gen Corporate Accelerator with a Customer-Creation Focus
Abstract We describe the history, design and expansion of Illumina for Startups — a case that represents a company with strong entrepreneurial capacity engaging in…
Aligning the Corporation for Transformative Innovation: Introducing Innovation Dashboard 2.0
Under pressure from mounting forces of change, corporations must engage in innovation more than ever. The transformative types of innovation required for organizations to thrive…
Four Models for Corporate Transformative, Open Innovation
Abstract Four models are identified for organizations to pursue simultaneous core growth and transformative innovation leveraging open innovation principles: 1) corporate accelerators —engage with or…
Sue Windham-Bannister, Change Agent in a Pinstripe Suit
If you’re in the entrepreneurial world, you’re constantly rubbing up against some crucial element of the innovation ecosystem around you. Whether you’re a corporate innovator whose…
Linda Booth Sweeney: Illuminating a Complex World
I’m profiling some of the people I’ve been most inspired by recently. My first conversation with Linda Booth Sweeney in April of 2020 was a…