How W.L. Gore Trains Employees to Explore New Business Opportunities

Friction often exists between innovators and operationally-focused departments. A program at Gore addresses the friction and trains employees to explore market opportunities.

By Scott Kirsner · June 3, 2016 · 1 min read

How many people at your company have what it takes to explore new market opportunities? At privately-held W.L. Gore & Associates , headquartered in Newark, Del., the answer was “not enough.” So the company, which makes everything from guitar strings to GORE-TEX fabric to…

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