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
Top 10 Tech Trends for 2013 from Le Web Paris
I had the privilege of attending this year’s Le Web conference in Paris (4th – 6th Dec), where over 3,000 of the world’s foremost tech entrepreneurs, leaders and commentators shared their latest developments and thoughts, as well as the odd glass of wine or two, on all things internet, tech and geek. Here’s my list … Continue reading
Learn The Art of “Innovisation”
“InnovisationTM” is the ongoing delivery of innovation through the mentality and practice of improvisation; a concept first propounded by entrepreneur, author and consultant Gregg Fraley in 2008 (see http://www.greggfraley.com/innovisationart.html). Innovisation is not a one-off, planned exercise, but a repetitive agenda for creativity, not accepting the accepted, and thinking fast. It doesn’t require a ‘master plan’; … Continue reading
Thought Leadership Model
A planning model for developing a ‘Thought Leadership’ programme:
The 12 Common Sense Principles of Marketing
I’ve worked in Marketing for my whole career; the best part of twenty years. Over this time I’ve become a firm believer that Marketing is a finely-tuned mix of science and art. Yet at it’s core is an often over-looked, neglected and even abused trait…common sense. A lot of Marketing is complex, especially in the … 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
10 Success Principles of Apple’s Innovation Master Jonathan Ive
Jonathan Ive joined Apple in 1992. He has gone on to be the inspiration, catalyst and driver behind products that have revolutionized technology, industry sectors and consumers’ lives across the world. He was the innovator and obsessive problem-solver to the visionary perfectionist that was Steve Jobs. This symbiosis re-built and re-defined Apple to become the world’s second … 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
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