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Structure and process

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Corporate Incubators and New Business Creation

by Wolcott and Lippitz on September 1, 2010

We began posting today to a new website, Benzinga, aimed at active stock traders.  Over the course of the next several weeks, we will be describing the corporate entrepreneurship structures of  individual companies profiled in Grow From Within….so look for their stock prices to bounce!

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Need Help Innovating Inside Big-Fat-Slow Organizations?

by Wolcott and Lippitz on July 9, 2010

We’re very pleased with a great review of Grow From Within by Dean DeBiase of Reboot Partners, with a summary of some of the key take-aways.

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In this video roundtable, sponsored by DeVry University’s Keller Graduate School of Management, Rob Wolcott joins Ken Atwater (GE Healthcare IT Solutions), to share insights on corporate entreprenership and innovation project management, covering issues of leadership, organization, personnel and culture.

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The Enabler Model of Corporate Entrepreneurship

by Wolcott and Lippitz on March 2, 2010

In our post at Fast Company this week, we explain the Enabler Model of Corporate Entrepreneurship, in which resources are available for new business creation, but there is no designated organizational ownership.  In other words,  the early stages of new business conception are explicitly supported, encouraged, but no executive or team is explicitly charged with scaling proven concepts and transitioning them back into the organization.  
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Summary of the Four Models of Corporate Entrepreneurship

by Wolcott and Lippitz on February 26, 2010

We are delighted that a Consumer Goods Technology Magazine just published a concise summary of the Four Models of Corporate Entrepreneurship in their latest issue.

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Entrepreneurship and Innovation Leadership Not Just For Start-Ups

by Wolcott and Lippitz on December 7, 2009

We’re pleased that our article on innovation leadership was placed front and center in the Chicago Chamber of Commerce’s newsletter today.    The article picks up on some of the themes in previous posts here:  That corporate entrepreneurship is about more than new products and services and that structure and process are not the enemies of innovation.  It emphasizes [...]

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Developing a Corporate Entrepreneurship Strategy

by Wolcott and Lippitz on November 18, 2009

In theory, there’s no difference between theory and practice. 
But in practice, there  is.”
                                        – Lawrence “Yogi” Berra, American Baseball Legend
How do you successfully build a corporate entrepreneurship capacity?  Our  research has found that it’s a multi-stage process. 
The first key element is a mandate for growth or transformation accompanied by a vision that points in the general [...]

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