Creating Competitive Advantage Through Intrapreneurship
It’s no revelation that modern organizations are fundamentally different from their predecessors. Today’s businesses are less about having an individual or “senior” team retaining the majority of power and control with tasks and resources flowing down, and more about melding a collective entity, mobilized and committed towards a shared mission. Groups coalesce around meaningful “challenges” … Continue reading
The Hacker Way – The Mechanics of Hacking
Our everyday business lives are filled with incumbent systems, procedures and tools that simply don’t work. They’re constraining, inefficient and block the development of new, better ways of doing things. The intrapreneur is a ‘hacker’ at heart. They find the loops in the system, the paths to get around the blocks. This isn’t hacking in … Continue reading
My Top 20 Intrapreneurship Blog Posts of 2012
Last year I gave you my ‘Top 10 Intrapreneurship Blog Posts of 2011‘. For 2012, that list has doubled! This says it all – intraprenerial thinking is on the rise…and fast! Business leaders and commentators are switching onto the fact that intrapreneurs, and more generally developing an overarching intrapreneurial culture, is key to fostering innovation, … Continue reading
Be Heard
“One option is to struggle to be heard whenever you’re in the room…another is to be the sort of person who is missed when you’re not. The first involves making noise. The second involves making a difference.” – Seth Godin The intrapreneur speaks when others don’t. They have confidence in their message and their ability … Continue reading
The Rise Of The Intrapreneur – The Time Is Now
Intrapreneurship as a concept and as a movement is going through a renaissance at present. Definitions of what constitutes intrapeneurial behaviour may differ, but the volume of dialogue around corporate entrepreneurialism, innovation and value generation is considerable and growing. We’ve seen a proliferation of articles, research, discussions and events about the contributions of intrapreneurs and … Continue reading
Is It Better To Be Right Or Wrong?
The conventional wisdom in life and in business is that you must learn from your mistakes, and that it’s important for you to make mistakes in order to improve and ultimately succeed. But is this really the case? Is this merely a clichéd misnomer, after-all, you should learn a lot more from your successes, most notably to … Continue reading
Invention, Innovation and Intrapreneurship
I particularly like the distinction provided by Futurist Dr Frank Shaw at a recent debate on innovation organized by insurer Hiscox [1]: Inventors – who create things that didn’t exist before Innovators – who take an invention to the point of pre-commercialisation Entrepreneurs – who spot the commercial opportunity and are prepared to put their time and money … Continue reading
My Top 10 Intrapreneurship Blog Posts of 2011
In these challenging economic times, when companies are facing increasing and ever more aggressive competition, resources are becoming harder to attain and maneuver, and customers and markets are more fluid and dynamic than ever before, you can’t help but sense a resurgence of intrapreneurial proponents and practitioners. This year has seen a renewed commentary around … Continue reading
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