🟢 Fixing your innovation pipeline with a reverse pipeline
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🟢 Venture clienting is the innovation flavor of the month. Does it work?
Short answer: Yes.
Longer answer: Venture clienting is only a tool among many others, and while it can be a fantastic way to boost an innovation program, it also has limits.
Venture clienting is having its moment (again)
Most corporations now seem to understand that startups being pushed into large