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Hacking the Enterprise | 5 Reasons Corporations Should Look Locally to Work with Startups

Silicon Valley gets a lot of shine. We get it, the Valley has star power and volume. But, corporations are spread out across the country, and may not need to build up frequent flier mileage to find innovative startups. At our corporate innovation strategy group Your Ideas Are Terrible, we&

This Guide Has Everything You Need to Know About Atlanta's Corporate Innovation Scene

This Guide Has Everything You Need to Know About Atlanta's Corporate Innovation Scene

Twenty-six companies headquartered in metro Atlanta are among the 2018 Fortune 1000, of which 15 are also ranked in the same year's Fortune 500. In fiscal year 2017, these 26 companies generated aggregate revenues of $357.9 billion. We saw the business community's power firsthand

startup engagement events

Hacking the Enterprise: How Corporate-Hosted Startup Engagement Events Can Actually Be Useful

Events that involved both corporations and startups can be invigorating. Corporate employees can emerge out of their cubicles and hobnob with entrepreneurs who throw out startup buzzwords over craft beer. Unfortunately, once the sparkle settles, there are typically no tangible results from these meetings — but we can change that. Here’

Innovation center

Hacking the Enterprise: Here's Why Corporations Open (Useful) Innovation Centers

Over 25 global corporations including Coca-Cola, thyssenkrupp, Home Depot and Stanley Black & Decker tap into Atlanta's dynamic concentration of startups, talent and entrepreneurial initiatives by standing up an off-site innovation center. Innovation centers can make a significant impact on business growth when done well. Off-

corporate innovation

Hacking the Enterprise: A Corporate Innovation How-To Guide

In our work helping organizations build and sustain cultures of innovation, we've found that people in roles not directly connected to “innovation” aren’t sure what to do when they’re asked to “be innovative” or support innovation culture. In an effort to help these people internalize what

Hacking the Enterprise: 5 Reasons Your Corporate Innovation Strategy Will Fail

Hacking the Enterprise: 5 Reasons Your Corporate Innovation Strategy Will Fail

You’ve gotten the call or you’ve raised your hand to lead a new innovation initiative. Welcome to the jungle. It’s exciting, rewarding and fraught with challenges. Let's set you up for success: here are the five most common missteps I've observed in my

Hacking the Enterprise: Move Beyond Design Thinking, Lean Startup and Agile — and Get to Work

Hacking the Enterprise: Move Beyond Design Thinking, Lean Startup and Agile — and Get to Work

Design Thinking, Lean Startup, or Agile? The answer is… Some people dismiss them all, some prefer one over another, and some suggest mushing them all together into a delicious innovation cocktail. There are complicated charts and graphs to explain how they flow and intersect. Often, this turns out to be