Why ‘innovation tourism’ is killing big companies

GUEST: Big companies can too easily become victims of what I call “innovation tourism”: They partner with startups and VCs in an effort to innovate, but they wind up merely sampling new technologies and practices and failing to drive innovation and change throughout their organizations.
There are many reasons these partnerships fail to result in real, lasting change, but a lot of them have to do with how the partnerships are structured. There’s no single model that will work fo