How To Bridge The Innovation Gap Between Leadership & Intrapreneurs - And Actually Make It To Market
What’s your company’s intrapreneurship vision? And how have you integrated that vision as a measurable, company-wide business process? If you can answer that question, stop reading right now - you’ve earned the right to spend the rest of the day at the beach, sipping an umbrella drink and basking in your own awesomeness. The rest of us, however,…
Radical Innovation: What Does The Corporation Of The Future Look Like?
Radical innovation is not about playing outside the box; it is the art of changing the box’s shape altogether.
When you’re a large legacy organization, shape-changing can seem almost impossible. But it can be done - if you’re willing to throw out the old, ineffective traditional structure and embrace a whole new model.
Innovation World Cup & Lean Elephants: How Enel and Telefonica are driving Intrapreneurship
Although it continues to be a learning journey, several companies are starting to find the right mix of elements for their innovation programs to deliver results. Beyond the 1-day ideation challenges and hackathons, the focus is now on company-wide implementation, in tune with the context and culture of the broader organization. Getting started…
Lean Enterprise Transformation - Top Down or Bottom Up?
Dinosaurs ruled the earth for about 165 million years, out-competing other animals of their era - until they were obliterated by the impact of an asteroid, and the small mammals who had lived in their shadows evolved to fill their niche. Fast-forward some 65 million years, and today’s dinosaurs are also facing possible extinction. The upheaval…
Is Design Everyone’s Job? IBM and 3M think so
“Design thinking is the search for a magical balance between business and art, structure and chaos, intuition and logic, concept and execution, playfulness and formality, and control and empowerment."Idris Mootee, idea couture
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Intrapreneurship is failing. The answer is sitting in the cubicle
This is a guest post by Georges Sassine, speaker at #IntraCnf Toronto. Originally published at Huffington Post, and re-published with permission. Let’s face it, large companies’ attempts to drive intrapreneurship are largely failing. If we’re honest, how many of us employees are truly empowered to go beyond our day jobs and build a startup? Are…
Intrapreneurship: Eliminating Barriers to Happy Customers
If business success depends on happy customers, happy customers come from energized, engaged employees - and intrapreneurship is a key ingredient. That was one of the many lessons Ken Tencer learned through working with and speaking to Fortune 500 companies. As CEO of Spyder Works, Ken helps organizations to get their ideas off of the back of a…
To Truly Disrupt Your Industry, You Can’t Go It Alone
GE has always focused on innovation. Founded by Thomas Edison in 1892, it is often referred to as the world’s oldest startup. Chairman and CEO Jeff Immelt has been lauded for transforming GE into a digital-industrial company, connecting machines and businesses to the cloud with Predix, its operating system for the Industrial Internet. And that…
Intrapreneurship in Action: BASF, Deutsche Bahn and BNP Paribas
A few years ago, intrapreneurship was the domain of the crazy guy, the lone wolf, the maverick, operating at the edges of the company. In need of support, but keen on staying under the radar at the same time. Nowadays, intrapreneurship is seen and recognized as a strategy for innovation, delivering better results faster- yet not immediately; it’s…
Successful Transformation? 5 Learnings from the T10
Innovation. Disruption. Transformation. These are the buzzwords of today’s business climate, and for good reason: it’s simply no longer enough to be the biggest or the best in your market. In fact, it might just be meaningless. We’re in an era of constant, relentless change. The companies that not just survive, but thrive in their markets are…
Make Innovation Part of Everyone's Job - How Cisco, GE, Adobe and Intuit do Intrapreneurship
Photo: Participants to Cisco' Innovate Everywhere challenge Innovation is not driven by a single great idea or the result of magical serendipity. It is a process of disciplined exploration and experimentation. Moreover, innovation is not something that can sit in a silo, it needs to be part of everyone’s responsibility and mindset. The most…
Is it Time to Cannibalize Your Cash Cow?
In 2007, nobody could touch Nokia. They controlled 41 percent of the global mobile phone market. Enter Apple and and, in a mere 6 years, that global market share had plummeted to a measly three percent and they sold their handset business to Microsoft. Nokia was, effectively, done. There are many reasons, widely debated and discussed, for Nokia’s…
