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• Expertise in building new businesses • Respected leadership with significant internal decision authority • Explicit attention to corporate entrepreneurship executive career incentives • Reintegrating successful projects into the core • Leadership succession • Lack of business unit support

• Expertise in building new businesses • Significant team facilitation capabilities • Skill in coalition building and internal and external networking • C-level visibility and support • Overcoming business unit near-term pressures • Finding “business builders” among executives traditionally rewa

• Culture of innovation • Structural flexibility for teams to pursue projects • Well-defined executive involvement in milestone funding decisions • Effectively communicated selection process and criteria • Senior executive bandwidth • Maintaining coherence and discipline with respect to corporate

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