Dwarves Memo

There are a number of common anti-patterns among large organizations that stifle innovation. These include:

expecting innovators to just come up with “cool stuff” without a guiding objective or strategy;
forcing innovators to spend too much time building long-term business cases and projection;
making arbitrary or capricious decisions;
preventing innovators from talking to customers;
not allocating sufficient resources;
preventing teams from releasing MVPs out of fear of the impact to the brand; and
forcing teams to adhere to rigid expectations in spite of new learning or discoveries made through experimentation and iteration.