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!
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.
by Wolcott and Lippitz on March 9, 2010
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.
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.
The [...]
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.
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 [...]
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 [...]