After posting the picture on Twitter of the books received I wanted to give some background to offer one person's experience with internal incubation processes at a Fortune 500 Software Company (from now on referred to as The Company).
DISCLAIMER - THOUGHTS ARE MY OWN IMPRESSIONS, AND REFLECTIVE OF MY PERSONAL EXPERIENCE
A few months back there were all sorts of ideas swirling on how to enable a culture of learning and experimentation at The Company, there were so many bright spots and research driven ideas for the development of new products but we desperately needed a vehicle (Funding, People ready to join the cause, and all the other impediments to starting new things at a big software company).
Having started up two off Brand products formerly and one new product at The Company I have run the gauntlet of incubating solo (or what feels like solo) and I have some scars so I was ready with a healthy dose of skepticism when I heard about our incubation accel