General Mills revamps its innovation strategy to leverage tiger teams to find, quickly seize opportunities

By Elizabeth Crawford

06-Jun-2022 Last updated on 06-Jun-2022 at 18:04 GMT

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Even as General Mills adopts an ‘always on’ approach to mergers & acquisitions, it remains dedicated to driving organic growth through innovation by deploying elite tiger teams to identify consumer problems and then develop and test solutions-oriented products that could take the CPG giant into new segments.

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