{"id":441916,"date":"2026-02-01T01:38:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T01:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/441916\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T01:38:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T01:38:07","slug":"why-great-innovations-fail-to-scale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/441916\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Great Innovations Fail to Scale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"DekBylineContainer_dek-byline-content__jety2 DekBylineContainer_premium__Y5cte\">Breakthrough solutions aren\u2019t enough. New ideas can\u2019t flourish without \u201cbridgers\u201d\u2014leaders who excel at collaborating across boundaries. by <a href=\"https:\/\/hbr.org\/search?term=Linda A. Hill\" class=\"Byline_author__SdVEf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Linda A. Hill<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/hbr.org\/search?term=Emily Tedards\" class=\"Byline_author__SdVEf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Emily Tedards<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/hbr.org\/search?term=Jason Wild\" class=\"Byline_author__SdVEf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jason Wild<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_text__yGFNO Paragraph_mag-icon-innovation-w30__NAdMa\" data-first-paragraph=\"true\">Innovation increasingly depends on partnerships. As complexity and specialization rise and technologies such as AI reshape workflows and product portfolios, no single team or company has all the capabilities, tools, or authority needed to move ideas from prototype to scale. Organizations must \u201cpartner or die,\u201d as one executive told us. But sharing the driver\u2019s seat is difficult. The more that innovation relies on collaboration across groups and firms, the more initiatives are likely to stall\u2014or worse, fail\u2014because the partnerships meant to deliver them break down.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Breakthrough solutions aren\u2019t enough. New ideas can\u2019t flourish without \u201cbridgers\u201d\u2014leaders who excel at collaborating across boundaries. by Linda&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":441917,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[28,158],"class_list":["post-441916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entrepreneurship","tag-business","tag-entrepreneurship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441916","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=441916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/441917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}