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§ Innovation

Map of our innovation notes, covering what innovation is, why large organizations struggle with it, how it grows through connection, and how to find opportunities.

What is innovation?

  • Corporate innovation means discovering sustainable new business models
  • Common myths about innovation

Challenges facing innovation

  • Loss aversion creates tension between the need to innovate and the need to protect the status quo in large organizations
  • ¶ Innovation theater
  • Established organizations tend to optimize for inertia
  • Why enterprises can't innovate like startups
  • ¶ Martec's Law
  • Common innovation anti-patterns
  • Tom Brady Principle - Organizations often promote top performers out of positions in which they can make the greatest impact.

Innovation thrives on connection

  • Integrate innovation functions with the broader organization
  • Innovation cascades
  • Ideas are constellations
  • Innovation accrues in small, incremental steps

Finding opportunities for innovation

De-risking innovation

Innovation operations