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Innovadores a rienda suelta: Cómo las startups y los emprendedores dan vida a las grandes empresas

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Today's mature, established companies must find ways to rejuvenate themselves--or risk losing their way. By working with startup companies, legacy companies can acquire new technology and lines of business, relearn the need for speed, increase strategic risk-taking, spark innovation, improve the intimacy of their relationships with customers, and streamline their operations from within.
Former global marketing officer for Procter and Gamble and business consultant Jim Stengel saw firsthand the importance of establishing partnerships and learning key insights from the startup world. In an eye-opening book, he looks at such established companies as GE and Western Union, Wells Fargo and IBN, Target and Motorola Solutions, Toyota and Bayer to see what they are learning from their alliances with entrpreneurs and startups--as well as the potential pitfalls and course corrections when a partnership goes awry. Jim closes by looking at how 10, 20, and 30-year-old "startups" like Microsoft, Google, and Apple are reinventing themselves--and what that bodes for legacy companies everywhere.

246 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2019

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Profile Image for Mike Jorgensen.
1,063 reviews20 followers
December 9, 2019
Too little content spread way too thin. The premise is interesting, but this could have been done in a powerpoint. Accordingly, it makes for a boring slog of a read as very little new information emerges.
Profile Image for Martin Romero.
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May 3, 2021
Some interesting history about how legacies companies are working with startups, nevertheless the material is relevant only for a very small audience. (upper management on legacy companies)
Profile Image for Pablo María Fernández.
517 reviews21 followers
November 4, 2022
Compré este libro a $800 en una librería de usados de Av. Corrientes. Me llamaron la atención la portada y el título. Por el precio no lo hojeé demasiado y pienso que de haberlo hecho lo hubiese dejado sobre el estante. El título (agregado en la traducción porque no existe en inglés) es “Innovadores que hacen historia” y me imaginé una reseña de biografías de los Da Vinci, Newton, Tesla, Elon Musk, etc. o algo por el estilo. Nada más lejos.

La idea fuerza del libro es sencilla: las grandes corporaciones anquilosadas por el paso del tiempo pueden rejuvenecer si se asocian de la manera correcta con las start-ups o empresas jóvenes. El lenguaje marketinero es el típico de este tipo de libros y no profundiza a nivel teórico ni tampoco en los resultados concretos: se lee más como esos casos de éxitos que se lucen en un sitio web para reforzar la venta de un producto más que un estudio a fondo que genere hallazgos significativos para compartir. Las casi 250 hojas dan una gran cantidad de ejemplos y casos con un abordaje más bien superficial y llamativamente -o no- en pocos años varios varios ya quedaron obsoletos. IBM Watson como el gran transformador, la gestión de Ginni Rometty que después terminó recurriendo a comprar Red Hat como un salvataje que tampoco funcionó o la gestión de Eric Ries en GE que tampoco tuvo un balance positivo son algunos ejemplos.

Mucho de lo que se comenta sirve más como herramienta de comunicación para posicionar a las marcas con un discurso de ser innovadoras que de acuerdos comerciales realmente virtuosos para ambos lados (de hecho en general las fusiones, adquisiciones y/o alianzas terminan quitando valor de ambos lados). Lo que más rescato son los títulos de las secciones de los últimos capítulos que hacen las veces de consejos cortitos y al pie y alguna que otra frase pero claramente a mi entender es una lectura que no vale la pena.
Profile Image for Kym Hamer.
1,069 reviews37 followers
June 21, 2022
As an entrepreneur looking to scale my business, this was a very relevant read for me and getting a look at what corporates are looking for in their start-up investment partners, the pitfalls of the poorly-matched and the conundrum of culture clash vs collaboration, was both educational and eye-opening. However, while I have read - and thoroughly enjoyed - Beth Comstock's book, Imagine it Forward, the downside of Stengel's book for me was being too 'GE weighted'. Great nuggets throughout though and it's gone back on the bookshelf for future reference. 4-stars
Profile Image for Alejandro Rodríguez Vahos.
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April 20, 2023
Diagnóstico general de los problemas que enfrentan corporativos al generar asociaciones con startups. La calidad desciende considerablemente después de la página 100 (muchísimo relleno, faltó editor). No está escrito de manera maravillosa ni mucho menos, pero tiene unos mensajes clave bien útiles para quienes trabajamos en esos asuntos.
Profile Image for Zé Paulo.
28 reviews2 followers
April 2, 2025
The book explores partnerships between startups and corporations that don’t necessarily require an M&A—where corporations may act as investors or simply as product partners, primarily from a cultural perspective and from the corporations POV.

Overall, it’s more of the same, featuring numerous interviews with corporate directors.
Profile Image for Gerry.
370 reviews6 followers
December 18, 2021
This is another book preaching about the benefits of innovation of which there are quite a number.

Call me old fashioned but my understanding of innovation is a creative process resulting in New ideas products and procedures.

What I found is that large corporations preach innovation but what they mean is to strangle potential competitors at birth using g all of their might or another way is to buy them up strip them of potential competitive threats and or produce new products th a suit them and of course appropriate the new technology for themselves.

This is another of such books.
Profile Image for Juan David.
46 reviews
January 31, 2020
Cuenta como funciona las funciones de grandes empresas con las empresas emergentes, claves para no fracasar.
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