Innovation IV:  Why Successful Small Companies must get Big to stay Innovative
     Small companies, with limited resources and thinner talent pools, face challenges in sustaining multiple lines of inquiry without compromising operational quality.
     Small, successful, companies that don't have plans to get big are more likely to run afoul of the Innovator's Dilemma and wake up to find themselves hopelessly behind a more aggressive competitor, without the resource cushion to regroup.

     Bigger companies, by their nature, attract abundant talent, are used to working at scale (big problems), and have global reach.  This "smart-scale-reach triad" (http://bit.ly/1g9LbAU), while not an innoculation against the Innovator's Dilemma, still gives bigger companies a better chance of correcting course once mistakes are recognised -- often when serious competition emerges.

     Can we generalise?  Despite efforts to provide fertile ground for disruptive innovations, incubating that first disruption is often easier in a smaller company.  But continuing disruptive innovations after a first success, difficult in the best of companies, is all but impossible for small ones that choose to stay small.