Our Perspectives on New Business Growth, Innovation, & Strategy

We just kicked off a major global innovation training program with a Fortune 100 client in Guadalajara Mexico. The level of engagement and interest in improving innovation skills was fantastic to see, but even more exciting was the focus on "applying innovation" to make a real business impact.

Amazon has been extraordinarily successful in achieving growth through very diverse products and business models via both organic development and strategic acquisitions, techniques that other large companies also use, but typically without such success. Is there something unique about Amazon that enables this and can it be emulated? We think so.

Platform Strategies are very much in vogue, but all platform strategies are not the same and have very different potential for economic return. Make sure you know which type you are pursuing and are manage expectations and tactics appropriately.

Your project may be looking healthy, but is it really one of the walking dead? If you are not doing a thorough Project/Company Fit analysis, then it very well could be.

BRI is a proud sponsor of the first Venture Olympics, a conference designed to create win-win partnerships between large corporate innovators, tech startups and venture funders. Subscribe to our mailing list and get a discount code good for 20% the registration fee.

Most corporate innovation programs put their focus on ideation and market fit but tend to neglect company fit, which is the biggest risk of failure most corporate innovation programs face. BRI’s Company Fit Assessment Tool can help you identify potential friction points for innovation projects and portfolios with the Resources, Processes and Priorities of the sponsoring company and provides recommendations for how to mitigate them.

This is the final article in a three-part series discussing the forces driving companies to pursue Digital Transformation strategies, as well as the unique challenges that such endeavors will likely create and approaches to mitigate them. In this 3rd article, we will describe why Digital Transformation Strategies are very likely to create RPP alignment challenges for many, if not most, businesses as well as some approaches to mitigating the risks those challenges pose to the Digital Transformation process.

Join BRI Managing Partner, Stephen Rich, at the 2018 Front End of Innovation Conference in April. Stephen will co-facilitate the Lean Startup Workshop with Peter Koen from the Stevens Institute of Technology.

This article is the second in a three-part series discussing the forces driving companies to pursue Digital Transformation strategies, as well as the unique challenges that such endeavors will likely create and approaches to mitigate them. This second article will introduce and define the concept of a business's "RPPs" (Resources, Processes, and Priorities) as a means of assessing the relative alignment of a new strategy or business with a company's core business, and why RPP alignment gaps are the biggest killer of innovation in large businesses.

This article is the first in a three-part series discussing the forces driving companies to pursue Digital Transformation strategies, as well as the unique challenges that such endeavors will likely create and approaches to mitigate them. This first article will discuss Digital Transformation; What it is, what's motivating companies to pursue Digital Transformation strategies, and why it's happening now.