The Illusion of Innovation

Auteur

ELLIOTT PARKER is founder and CEO of High Alpha Innovation, a venture builder that partners with corporations, universities, and entrepreneurs to co-create startups that solve compelling problems. He built his career in strategy consulting at Innosight, the firm founded by Clayton Christensen, in corporate venturing, and as an entrepreneur bringing new ideas to market. To date, he has launched over 40 venture-backed startups. Originally from California, Elliott currently resides with his family in Indiana. He earned a B.S. in Finance from BYU and an M.B.A. from the UCLA Anderson School of Management.

Résumé
Our institutions are failing us. Corporations, governments, and universities all seem less capable of confronting challenges and opportunities than they once were. 

The irony is that our institutions are better managed than ever, but they’re too often focused on the wrong things: safety and predictability, and maintenance of the status quo. Corporations in particular are not prepared to face the future, and many are dying. Advances in technology, communications, and finance are making it easier for small teams and individuals to disrupt large organizations. 

We need corporations to thrive because they can solve important problems in ways that small teams cannot. This book explains why innovation naturally emerges from deliberate inefficiency, and how large corporations can harness the power of small teams–startups–and adopt a strategy of systematic experimentation to thrive in the face of an unknown future.