Chapter 5. ACCELERATION Gathering Steam and Building Critical Mass

Incubated projects need to make progress if they are going to get to the market successfully. But what does this mean? If you've been successful with discovery and incubation activities, you've developed a pipeline of projects, and several of your portfolio businesses appear to be highly promising. They've got a number of interested customer partners, across several different applications, and they're generating early revenues. It's clear that this is just the beginning, because additional opportunities may be emerging. Is it time to transfer them to whatever operating unit will ultimately run them?

No! Absolutely not, because you are missing the third building block of the DNA ...

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