Opinion

July 14, 2020

Your best corporate disruption strategy might be...to stop

Unless you can do these four things, it is better just to kill your corporate innovation project as humanely as possible.


Corporations are burning cash trying to build disruptive business models. Unless they have taken the time to install four key strategic enablers, they will fail. I call these enablers ‘The Four Freedoms’.

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