![Evaluating Your Business Model]()
by Admin | Feb 28, 2017 | Garwood Blog
Large companies tend to consider new products and services through the lens of their current business model. For projects that align well with the current business model, this works well. However, many of the Xerox spinoff projects were only able to create...
![What Innovating Companies Can Learn from Venture Capital]()
by Admin | Feb 21, 2017 | Garwood Blog
Novel combinations of products and services offered by startups are a valuable resource for established companies to monitor and leverage. Some open innovation companies follow this logic by investing, partnering, or allying with some of these startups. This...
![Success to Innovation]()
by Admin | Feb 14, 2017 | Garwood Blog
There is a multitude of factors that have eroded the traditional model of corporate innovation. These include the growing mobility of highly experienced and skilled people, the large amount of college and post-college studies that many people obtained, the growing...
![Barriers to Innovation]()
by Admin | Feb 6, 2017 | Garwood Blog
Lucent telecommunications company knew that it had a wonderful research organization in the portion of Bell labs it had retained. It also wanted to explore how it might do more with the labs and the research talent within. Lucent thought that an internal VC could...
![The Role of a Business Model]()
by Admin | Feb 4, 2017 | Garwood Blog
It is extremely difficult for managers to understand the myriad possible choices that they must make, to connect new technologies to new markets. And the world of technical choices differs greatly from the world of economic and social choices. Defining the business...
![Open Innovation vs. Closed Innovation]()
by Admin | Jan 30, 2017 | Garwood Blog
While PARC was focusing on the internally focused Closed Innovation paradigm, the greatest technological achievements that emerged from PARC, by contrast, could only take root – and create real economic value – when pursued in a far different context, a...
