The Business of Tech: Why big companies kill innovative ideas – and how to save them

The Business of Tech: Why big companies kill innovative ideas – and how to save them
Gravity cofounder James Boult. (Composite image: Supplied/Jacques Steenkamp)

Big organisations love to talk about innovation. They set up labs, hire “transformation” teams, and run hackathons. Yet inside many companies, the best ideas still die in PowerPoint decks or get buried in cautious business cases.In this week’s episode of The Business of Tech, I talk to Gravity cofounder James Boult, an innovation specialist who has spent years inside large New Zealand organisations, watching this play out in real time. Boult’s verdict is that most corporates are structurally set up to smother g...

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