For innovators inside large organisations navigating internal friction.
The corporate context is different. The dominant friction is internal, not external. Budget cycle dependency, executive sponsor risk, internal champion exposure, and the politics of make vs buy vs partner — these are the failure layers that corporate innovators face. The IF framework's denominator applies here too: μ_human is your executive committee's risk aversion; N_legacy is the organisation's incumbent processes and vendor relationships; τ_cycle is your budget approval timeline; C_capital is the internal budget you need to allocate and defend.