For more than 25 years, the Bell Mason Group has helped Global 1000 companies to build effective and measurable innovation and venturing programs. We provide informed strategies, methodologies, tools, and advisory support both to accelerate program development and to measure performance at unit, portfolio and individual venture levels. As a result, our clients are able to consistently sustain innovation while reducing risk in the face of economic down cycles, management changes and strategic redirection.

Using the proven Bell Mason Framework and tools for corporate innovation management and venture development, BMG senior consultants:

• Work closely with corporate venturing, development, research and strategy executives in large corporations to establish and ensure that the innovation initiatives that are critical to sustained growth remain relevant
• Guide strategy, planning and metrics development for a range of innovation programs, including internal incubation, licensing, corporate venture capital, strategic alliances, corporate development and M&A

BMG co-founder Heidi Mason is the co-author of 'The Venture Imperative' (Harvard, 2002), the seminal book on corporate venture development. In it she explores the unique challenges and opportunities faced by corporations investing in innovation and venturing, and highlights best practices and key success factors across a wide variety of technologies and organizations.

The BMG team is comprised of senior practitioners who bring operational experience in both the corporate and the startup worlds. We are passionate about partnering with forward-thinking corporate executives to meet the challenges of sustaining growth through innovation and venturing.

Publications from the BMG Team

The Venture Imperative
The Venture Imperative argues that internal venturing must be viewed as a core element of corporate strategy. It provides a model for growing new business in the old business setting, detailing the right way to organize, manage and oversee a corporate venture so that it can flourish. }} Buy it

Total Recall
What if you could remember everything? Soon, if you choose, you will be able to conveniently and affordably record your whole life in minute detail. In Total Recall, Gordon Bell and Jim Gemmell draw on their experience from the MyLifeBits project at Microsoft Research to explain the benefits to come from an earth-shaking and inevitable increase in electronic memories.
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The Laws of Disruption
Where Killer App looked at ways business could use faster adoption as a means to competitive advantage, The Laws of Disruption explores, ten years into the Internet revolution, what has happened to social, political, and legal systems that now lag dangerously far behind. }} Buy it

High-Tech Ventures
High-Tech Ventures is for those who design, build, and market innovative products. More specifically it is for all engineers, engineering managers, entrepreneurs, and intrapreneurs.
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Unleashing the Killer App: Digital Strategies for Market Dominance
We live in an age of anxiety, where rapid changes to social, economic, and political systems - mischief shaped by digitial technologies - have left most business people feeling dazed.
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The Next Digital Decade: Essays on the Future of the Internet
Twenty-six thought leaders on Internet law, philosophy, policy and economics consider what the next digital decade might bring for the Internet and digital policy. Larry Downes has contributed chapters on the new economics of information and the on solving the privacy problem. The Essays can now be read online, downloaded as a PDF, and purchased in hardcover.