> I guess it would be possible to give in-house teams free reign to try out new ideas without all the organizational friction The traditional name for this is

> I guess it would be possible to give in-house teams free reign to try out new ideas without all the organizational friction The traditional name for this is a skunkworks project: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skunkworks_project https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skunkworks_project They tried something like it somewhere I worked but messed it up. Everyone needed to pitch ideas then the 'approved' projects were the pet ideas of various suits, put under the same restrictions as regular projects, and choked to death.