Still Standing: Would Your Venture Unit Survive Its Next Budget Review?
Units that last don’t try to remove their internal tensions. Seven years of research with more than 100 corporate venture leaders shows the routines they use to manage those tensions instead.
Own the P&L (Or Get Shut Down When the CEO Changes)
Sokwoo Rhee has run LG Nova for five years — longer than most corporate innovation units survive. His explanation isn't culture or timing. It's math: “The only thing that doesn't change, regardless who your leader is, is P&L.”
Expected Value (XV): The Financial Metric Innovation Teams Actually Need
The future requires a bilingual innovator, one who speaks the language of design thinking and the language of the P&L — XV is the bridge between the two.
Balancing Short- and Long-Term Focus: Lead With Evidence
Senior leaders intuitively know growth and innovation differ from running the core business, yet they lack the language and systems to manage both simultaneously.
Stop Begging for Resources (and Start Building a Movement )
When people stop viewing innovation as a tax they have to pay, or a compliance box they have to check, and start viewing it as a vehicle for their own success, you have won.
Eliminate Ambiguity, Correct Asymmetry and Promote Accountability With An Innovation Mandate
An Innovation Mandate serves as a contract between the senior management (the organizational level) and the professionals conducting the work (the portfolio and project levels).
