Should You Kill Your Organization?

Earlier this week, I got an email with the subject line—“Should you be trying to 'kill' your company?” In the article,;I’ve Been Paying A Team To Kill My Company, the author advocates for the creation of autonomous business units (ABU) in order to help organizations make innovation happen.

The ABU concept—what I refer to as a "skunk works"—is a business unit with a business model entirely distinct from the parent organization. The customers are different. And the customers are served with a different value proposition and profit formula, supported by independent resources and processes . . .