PART FOUR

Build Capabilities

Companies seeking to create growth through innovation need more than a single success story. They need to institutionalize innovation in a way that makes the pursuit of growth more repeatable and routine. This section explores how companies can ensure that their internal structures and processes and external interactions support—not thwart— their efforts to create innovative growth businesses. Chapter 9 lays out structures and processes to facilitate the continued creation of new growth initiatives. Finally, chapter 10 describes how to implement a set of innovation-friendly metrics.

“We’ve tried to really separate groups of people whose life is to reinvent or to disrupt the core businesses that are there.”

—Nick Valeriani, ...

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