How do big companies innovate?

Innovation is usually mentioned in connection with small companies or entrepreneurs. But large companies can also innovate, given the right mechanisms and the right amount of freedom and encouragement for employees.

This panel – consisting of the Financial Times Management Editor Andrew Hill, Gary Dushnitsky of London Business School and the Deloitte Institute of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, 3M chief George Buckley, consultant Geoff Vuleta and Signal Point’s Nick Hughes, who when at Vodafone created the highly successful African mobile payments system M-PESA – swap ideas about the barriers, supports and possibilities for innovation within big organisations.