🟢 10 Strategic insights for 2025 - 6. Innovation centers are (mostly) done

The core insight

The discussion

For the last two decades, Forbes, Bloomberg, the Harvard Business Review, and many other business media have shared a simple truth: large corporations are too slow and risk-averse to produce innovation. The solution? Elegant and efficient: free your innovation spirit by creating an innovation center. An island of creativity and entrepreneurial spirit from where new energy will flow and rejuvenate your tired, old, incumbent business. Suffice it to say it didn't work as planned, and no demonstrable large-scale success stemmed from these initiatives.

Fine. What now?