[s_kilk]

> ironically, a lot of "progressive" corporations end up creating mini-Innovation teams internally with their best & brightest, who are told to "act like a startup" and end up basically creating 75% of all the new stuff ... until it requires an interface to a legacy system and the devs outside the team refuse to cooperate out of fear.

I've been in exactly that situation, working on a small 'startup' team inside a large, traditional organisation. The friction between the 'old' and 'new' camps was heartbreaking.

[mauricemir]

You need to have a Baord level champion who can steamroller any silos and get stuff done.

[s_kilk]

Eventually, we got exactly that, a leader the Board would actually listen to and respect.

This was after I'd moved on, but I'm led to believe that things have improved greatly since that change.