Innovation Leadership
15 Manufacturers Tech Activity in Past 5 Years
Manufacturers are enabling the rise of B2B marketplaces. In our WTA video, we analyze why they would want to do such a thing and look at representative examples from 15 manufacturers that are buying and or investing in tech startups….
Tech Startup M&A | Outsourced Corporate Development
With Covid as a huge accelerant, many traditional business leaders are finding that they need to use M&A to move faster with their digital efforts, and tech startups can be the perfect catalyst. Tech startups and traditional enterprises share a…
What Is âInnovation Theaterâ? A Definition, and How to Avoid It
Traditional businesses that want a place in the future must meet the trends and technologies that will define it. But that means making meaningful changes, not just shiny, surface-level ones. Too often these innovation initiatives end up as innovation theater….
All About Corporate Accelerators – Definition | What Is It? | Explanation
Traditional businesses have a number of options for modernizing operations and keeping up with industry peers, big tech, and scrappy startups. However, corporate accelerators are a common choice. What is a corporate accelerator? It’s a program run by a large…
What is Corporate Innovation?
Every large enterprise must undergo some degree of evolution to compete with modern monopolies in tech, and ultimately win. At Applico, this is what we think about every day. So how do you form a corporate strategy to address these…
Donât Be Like McDonaldâs: How Incumbent Enterprises Can Own the Future of Platform Innovation
When it comes to delivery, McDonaldâs is not loving it. Today, its businesses are beholden to large delivery platforms that exact a significant take rate from all of their restaurant partners. The platforms have market power, and the restaurants have…
How Incumbents Win at Platform Innovation: Enterprise Dry Powder
Dry powder is a familiar concept in board rooms, referring to cash or other relatively liquid assets that a business has at ready use. But in the context of platforms and the advantages that large enterprises have in building them,…
How to Fail Fast | Enterprise Hacks and Examples Â
If a traditional enterprise needs any incentive to âgo digital,â thereâs plenty to learn from what the tech monopolies are doing. Facebook, Google, Amazon, Uber, and other giants have become platform conglomerates, successfully spinning out multiple high-value platforms from the…
What is a Venture Studio? | Definition and Examples
A venture studio is an organization that creates startups, typically by providing the initial team, strategic direction and capital for the startup to reach product-market fit. Distinct from the venture capital approach, venture studios are closely involved in the day-to-day…
Management Consulting Firms Don’t Want to Build the Next Amazon
The largest management consulting firms have a dirty little secret: they donât want their clients to succeed too much. When Fortune 1000 CEOs hire one of the big three consulting firms, they expect consultantsâ interests to align with the companyâs….