As an entrepreneur or an enterprising employee, look everywhere for organizational models that scale innovation and see if you can adapt their structure to your profession or market sector.

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This means investment into organizational design on a global scale, establishing brand visibility, building worldwide supply chains and channels of distribution, and all of the rest of the complex set of activities that go into making a successful multinational corporation.

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Even when they get great ideas, they run into organizational bottlenecks that make it tough to select and scale the most promising ones.

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