BRI has decades of experience in new business growth and innovation, both firsthand and advising F500 clients. We’ve seen consistent patterns that impede clients' abilities to succeed with innovative new business growth – specifically growth beyond a mature core business or with new business models. The very processes and priorities that made your core business successful may unintentionally be working against your new businesses. In this brief talk, we will discuss the biggest hidden innovation killers, how to identify them, mitigate them, and how to operationalize those mitigations into a repeatable process to support your innovation portfolio.

Jim is a technology business leader with over 30 years of experience in new business development and innovation. Jim lead a long and distinguished career at Intel Corporation where he spent fourteen years in the company’s New Business Initiatives group as an Investment Director. There he shaped and managed a portfolio of new business ventures for Intel as well as continuously improved the effectiveness of the overall new business incubation process. He is Co-founder and Managing Partner of BRI, LLC where he enjoys partnering with clients across a range of industries to develop or strengthen their new business innovation capabilities or developing strategies for specific business opportunities or challenges.