Established corporations introducing new products, technologies or lines of business need to think carefully about how best to organize to succeed.
Extensive practical experience as well as a rapidly growing body of research indicates that the established organization is ill-equipped to support the successful development and launch of new products and businesses.
Executives at established companies must recognize that the new venture will require the careful creation and development of a discrete organizational structure with its own resources, processes and values in order to incubate, cultivate, and harvest the business opportunities of the budding innovative enterprise.
In this article, we will review some of the leading research into organizing for innovation, and then summarize key guidelines for executives.