How companies strangle innovation and how you can get it right

Published: Sept. 19, 2017, 5:40 p.m.

I just watched a very smart company try to manage innovation by hiring a global consulting firm to offload engineering from \u201cdistractions.\u201d They accomplished their goal, but at a huge, unanticipated cost: the processes and committees they designed ended up strangling innovation.\n\nThere\u2019s a much better way.