11 Developing Business and Talent through Corporate Venturing

Shell’s Gamechanger programme

Posted on January 10th, 2015 by John Bessant

Gamechanger case

Michael Bartl interview transcript

Posted on October 21st, 2014 by John Bessant

Michael Bartl transcript

David Hall

Posted on June 23rd, 2014 by Sarah Booth

David Hall on entrepreneurs – audio: David Hall on Entrenreneurs

Business Model Canvas activity

Posted on June 23rd, 2014 by Sarah Booth

Business models provide a powerful way of representing how an innovation will create and deliver value.  This activity builds on the framework of the Business Model Canvas to help develop thinking around business models.   Click here for the activity: Business model canvas

Tesco Goes West

Posted on June 23rd, 2014 by Sarah Booth

Professor Michelle Lowe (Southampton University)has been making an extensive longitudinal study of the entry of the UK retailer, Tesco, into the US market. This involved significant innovation along a number of dimensions including opening up new market positions, developing supply chains and rethinking the product/service offering. Her case study ‘Tesco Fresh and easy’ is also

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Roy Sandbach – Connect and Develop at Procter and Gamble

Posted on June 23rd, 2014 by Sarah Booth

Roy Sandbach works as a Research Fellow in Procter and Gamble. This interview looks at P&G’s approach to ‘open innovation’ – ‘Connect and develop’ – and how it plays out within the organization. Roy gives a variety of examples and highlights some of the key challenges facing a large organization in this new innovation landscape.

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Discontinuous innovation audit

Posted on June 20th, 2014 by Sarah Booth

This self-assessment framework is designed to help organizations reflect on how well placed they are to deal with the challenges of discontinuous innovation.  How well do they search, select and implement?  How do they handle the challenges of building linkages into new innovation space and reframing the approaches which they take to innovation? Do they

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Spirit – Entrepreneurial Business Development in an Emerging Market

Posted on June 20th, 2014 by Sarah Booth

This case looks at a Russian software company, Spirit, from its entrepreneurial foundations to its current role as a major global player in digital signal processing software Click to view case study: SPIRIT