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The Hero

The best performance comes from teams where employees take initiative.

The Villain

Autonomy is not enough.

The more managers control what ideas to explore, the less employees take initiative. Your company ends up operating at a fraction of its potential.

The Plan

Launch a skunkworks program to open up a second engine for innovation.

This lets employees take on experimental projects to explore new ideas. It’s a fast path to the swarm intelligence that makes startups so nimble.

This isn’t Google’s 20% time. The second engine comes entirely from extra productivity, with zero impact to official projects and schedules.

Tech Company Challenges

(that your employees can take initiative to help solve)
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New Product

“Everything is riding on this new product. We can’t afford to have it fail in the market.”

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Feature Trap

“We’re so busy with feature work that we don’t have the bandwidth to innovate the next big thing.”

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Falling Behind

“Our product is showing its age and its getting harder and harder to compete against new offerings.”

The Stakes

Your company was once the star of the industry. Growing quickly. Full of adventure.

Now growth has slowed. The adventure is gone. Careers are at risk.

If your team can’t restart growth, all will be lost.

The Quest

It’s time to gear up and begin the adventure.

We can help.

We help you get started

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Explore Terrain

We provide the services you need to explore the skunkworks program, and what it can do for your team.

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Launch Campaign

We provide the catalyst to launch the skunkworks program. 90 days from top-down to swarm intelligence.

Schedule Call

The best way to get started is to schedule a call with Jim Verquist. Founder of Engine2 Innovation.

We’ll set aside 45 minutes for you.