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 [...]
by Wolcott and Lippitz on November 9, 2009
In our six years of research on innovation and corporate entrepreneurship, we did not find a single company that felt they lacked good ideas. Rather, the difficult task was creating an organization and processes that refine ideas, build businesses, and bring the best of them to market.
There is no one-size-fits-all structure and process to building [...]