Corporate innovation often faces its greatest threat not from external competition, but from internal “antibodies” that systematically reject transformational ideas. Join us on August 13th at 12pm ET for an eye-opening session where seasoned innovation leaders share hard-won insights from over 15 years leading Intel’s new business incubator. You’ll discover proven frameworks for identifying corporate resistance patterns, practical tools for assessing risks to your innovation programs, and battle-tested strategies for neutralizing organizational immune responses before they kill your breakthrough initiatives. Whether you’re launching a new innovation program or struggling to scale existing ones, this session will equip you with the tactical knowledge needed to navigate corporate politics and protect your most promising opportunities.
Attendees will learn:
- How 20+ years of successes and failures in Intel’s business incubator revealed the factors that drive the corporate antibodies
- How to understand the warning signs that your innovation program is triggering corporate antibodies – and how to respond
- The practical tools for assessing risks to your innovation programs before they become fatal
- Communication strategies that align the breakthrough ideas with core business priorities to minimize friction
- Battle-tested strategies for proactively neutralizing organizational immune reponses
- Actionable guidance on designing governance structures that balance oversight with agility
Host Bio
Jim Bodio, Managing Partner, BRI Associates
Jim is a technology business leader with over 30 years of experience in new product and new business development. Prior to co-founding BRI, he spent almost two decades in Intel’s New Business Initiatives group. As an Investment Director there, he shaped and managed a portfolio of new business ventures for Intel as well as continuously improved the effectiveness of the overall new business incubation process. He also served several years as a “serial intrapreneur,” as the founder and general manager of several internal new business ventures including location-based gaming service platform, Intel’s first wireless digital media adapters, embedded media processors for digital TVs, and image sensors/processors & embedded camera modules for mobile and machine vision applications.
As a Director of Strategy and New Business Development in Intel’s Mobile and Communications Group, Jim led the development of software and service strategy, architecture and new technologies to enable new customer segments and business model innovation within the mobile market. He also served in Intel’s Internet and Communications Group in capacities ranging from marketing communications to product and product line management for such products as network application servers, highly integrated Internet servers, and wide area networking and Internet access router systems.
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