I spend a lot of time thinking about and reading about innovation, and a popular topic is how to make large organizations more innovative.  There are hundreds, if not thousands, of articles providing tips, strategies, frameworks, incentives, programs, and general advice on how to enable companies to be more innovative.  This isn’t exactly my sweet spot as I’m not a consultant working with companies fulltime to make them more innovative.  But I do have an opinion based on my own experiences:
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