Explore our new hands-on, how-to manual for innovating from within a corporation. In the book, you’ll find the tools, methodologies, and techniques you need to convert a great idea into a thriving, profitable business. Explore the pain points, pitfalls, and opportunities experienced by real organizational leaders who adopted the Corporate Explorer framework and realized substantial successes.
Corporate Explorer is a guidebook to the practices that enable these managers to go from idea into action. It explains how success as
a Corporate Explorer is not only possible, but just as feasible as a
venture-capital backed entrepreneur. The Corporate Explorer is now also available In Korean and Japanese.
Corporate Explorer is a book twenty years in the making. It started when Andy Binns attended an IBM Strategic Leadership Forum at Harvard Business School led by Professor Michael Tushman and Professor Charles O’Reilly. Mike and Charles were engaged to support IBM’s Emerging Business Opportunity program. Andy had just joined IBM from McKinsey.
One of the leaders they worked with was Carol Kovac, GM for IBM Life Sciences, and the archetypal Corporate Explorer. In just five years the team created something remarkable; a new multi-billion-dollar business inside a corporate behemoth. Living this story, the authors were blessed with the opportunity to learn first-hand what it took to succeed. This has forever shaped their belief that it is possible for corporates to beat startups at innovation, even if they also learned it would not be simple.
The Corporate Explorers' Club is where explorers meet to chart a path forward within any organization. Packages that include copies of the book, along with additional training materials, provide the structure and content for all to succeed.
Sponsors, equipped with all of the frameworks from the book, create a supportive corporate environment and culture conducive to innovation by granting Explorers a ‘License to Explore.’ Explorers are given a map to creating change within their company and the toolkit they’ll need to thrive on their journey.
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Simon Hill,
CEO, Wazoku/Innocentive
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Dr. Narendra Laljani,
Executive Fellow, Henley Business School