Inventing from the Inside Out

While there's no guarantee that an autonomous division will succeed, there are a few factors that work in its favor. In this day and age of rapid product cycles, time-compressed consumers and super-busy executives, no product should take longer than a year to bring to market. Freeing your designers, engineers, and product managers from endless, unproductive corporate meetings, should shave at least three months from a typical 18-month cycle. And that's a conservative estimate.

But the largest productivity boost will come from providing sizable incentives to your intrapreneurial team to feed their killer instinct and motivate them to succeed and win. Don't let the memory of Philip Estridge go to waste. Reinvent your company today.

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