Intrapreneurship

Intrapreneurship: The practice of fostering entrepreneurial behavior within an organization to drive innovation and business growth.

More Innovation Glossaries

New Ideas

Creative concepts, products or practices that have not been adopted before and that are intended to be useful.

Involvement

The input of stakeholders in programs or projects.

Personalization

Personalization is the use of individuals’ behavior, profile, historical data, and stated preferences to influence the offers that they receive

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How Ideation Transformed the Culture of the Largest Bank in the Southern Hemisphere

Employee ideation can transform a company's culture into a hub of innovation. Companies like Commonwealth Bank have seen success with intrapreneurship programs that empower employees to channel their inner entrepreneur and improve customer experience.

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Debunking the myth of the lone innovator

Innovation often comes from large companies, but they struggle to harness their own potential. Intrapreneurs face obstacles getting their ideas exposed to senior management. Nosco's collaborative platform for ideas supports companies in connecting creative minds and bringing ideas to the right people.

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Designing a culture of innovation: The behaviours of successful innovators

To create a successful innovation team, you need four critical roles: Generator, Conceptualiser, Optimiser, and Implementer. Without a good balance of these roles, your team may struggle to achieve success.

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Digital Innovation Strategy: Definition, Importance & Considerations

Designing a digital innovation strategy is a top priority for companies. Here are three key factors to consider when creating a successful strategy.

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Digital Factory of the Incumbent: Software of the Mind

Digital innovation in the retail industry is shaped by the polysemic nature of customer value, where the management of customer motivations, corporate digital mode, and technological standards are crucial for success.

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Innovation Leadership: Managing Your Resources

Innovation leaders need to carefully inventory their resources, including human and financial, as well as tangible and intangible resources.

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Moving towards a more distributed innovation model

Unlocking the potential of employees to contribute to innovation can be achieved through distributed leadership and a culture that values and captures knowledge flow.

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No HR, No Bureaucracy: Activating 100% Intrapreneurship

Intrapreneurship requires a tolerance for risk and a willingness to innovate. It's important to balance classic management styles with entrepreneurial skills for success.

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Openness Verses Intellectual Property

Innovation experts at 100%Open challenge the traditional notion of protecting intellectual property (IP). They propose a system of openness where patents and ideas are shared for mutual benefit.

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Organizational Change Consulting and Coaching - Innovation Training |

Organizational Change Consulting & Coaching (OCCC) can improve an organization's performance by fully optimizing their human capital potential and contribution.

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Pirates in the Navy Book Excerpt - Innovation Training | Design

To successfully implement innovation in a company, it is crucial to understand the company's readiness to support innovation through factors like leadership support, organizational design, and innovation practice.

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Planting the Seeds of Innovation in Education

Don Wettrick, an innovation coordinator at Noblesville High School, is revolutionizing education by empowering students to take risks, celebrate failure, and think differently.

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What is intrapreneurship and why is it important?

Intrapreneurship within an organization encourages risk-taking, innovation, and motivation among employees, driving growth and success.

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What Is Intrapreneurship? | Corporate Lab

Intrapreneurship is internal innovation that creates new ventures within an established company, similar to entrepreneurship but within a different context.

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What makes for a winning intrapreneur? | Intrapreneurship Conference

Learn what it takes to be a winning intrapreneur and how the role of intrapreneurship is evolving, according to three former intrapreneur of the year award winners.

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What Makes You a Great Product Manager? 4 Tips and One Extra

Being a product manager can be tough, but there are ways to make it easier. Here are four tips and one extra to help you perform better in this challenging role.

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What Pixar Shorts Can Teach Us About Innovation

Pixar's process to create short films is an example of undirected innovation. Allowing workers to have ideas, play and carry out projects autonomously increases employee satisfaction and self-confidence.

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Who are open innovation managers and what do they do?

Open innovation managers are key change agents in multinational companies who typically have a background in R&D or marketing, are of an average age of 43, and remain in their roles for an average of 7 years.

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Work Team Dynamics - 9 Ways to Signal Collaboration Opportunities

Learn 9 ways to improve collaboration opportunities within remote work teams.

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Collaborative Idea Management with Collaborative Ideation Platforms

Collaborative ideation platforms offer businesses practical solutions to generate innovative ideas by utilizing internal teams and customers.

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How do Users Influence Innovation?

Users play a crucial role in innovation. Lead users are becoming inventors and innovators, while early adopters can provide a critical mass of users. Brand advocates can influence potential users, either face-to-face or virtually.

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Entering (Not Leaving) Corporate Life - 5 Observations

Moving from entrepreneurship to corporate life can be challenging. Here are 5 observations to keep in mind when making the switch.

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McKinsey’s 2021 Global Report on new-business building reveals the growing importance of intrapreneurship for companies, with more than 60% of business leaders considering it a top priority.

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Flamin Hot Cheetos A Janitors Idea That Changed Food Forever

A janitor's idea led to the creation of Flamin' Hot Cheetos, one of Frito-Lay's bestselling products. The story highlights the importance of creating a culture that allows employees to take risks and the impact of accessibility and support from leaders.

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Innovation and technology in service of beekeeping

BeeWeb, an innovative software solution connecting beekeepers and growers, is optimizing the arrangement of beehives and increasing crop pollination for greater yields.

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To Truly Disrupt Your Industry, You Can’t Go It Alone

GE Power is on a mission to transform the power industry by collaborating with customers and competitors in co-innovation initiatives, as well as exploring cross-industry innovation. This interview with Hao Dinh, an intrapreneur spearheading GE Power's innovation initiative, explains how the company is partnering with customers to achieve meaningful change.

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Harvesting Innovation from the Desert

Back End of Innovation 2018 conference in Phoenix highlights the importance of having a language for management teams to redirect efforts when things go off track, as well as the need to treat Entrepreneurship as a core capability of the company.

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Intrapreneurship and Open Innovation for Small Business

Learn how small and medium-sized companies can implement open innovation and intrapreneurship to take their business to the next level with tips from an innovation expert.

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Internal Innovation Requires Patience and Persistence

Internal innovation programs may not deliver scalable ventures, but they are important for changing the organization. Five corporate innovators share approaches to making such programs successful.

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Intrapreneurship Training - Innovation Training | Design Thinking

Intrapreneurship is gaining popularity as organizations need employees to operate more like entrepreneurs. An intrapreneur is an innovator within an organization who uses entrepreneurial methods to develop and move forward new innovations.

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Intrapreneurs, Catalysts, Champions, etc: The Changing Needs Within Innovation Development

Corporate organizations are increasingly focusing on engaging and empowering employees as Intrapreneurs, Innovation Catalysts or Change Champions to drive business results, due to frustration from lack of tangible innovation results, culture pushback, and increasing financial pressures.

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Is it Time to Cannibalize Your Cash Cow? | Intrapreneurship Conference

Embracing cannibalization can be a growth strategy for companies. Apple, Amazon, Netflix and Facebook have all succeeded by taking an ambidextrous approach, creating separate units to explore and innovate for their future business.

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Running Innovation Labs and Programs: What Has Worked (And What Not) at OP Financial, Indeed, Ericsson and Fraunhofer

Innovation leaders share tips on building successful innovation labs and programs. Key takeaways include understanding the innovation and diffusion cycle, empowering employees to innovate, and providing resources for intrapreneurs.

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Seeding Startups for Self-Disruption: Stories of Ford, P&G and Audi

Companies serious about their future have started building new ventures to successfully innovate. Innovators from Ford, P&G, and Audi share their insights for creating successful ventures.

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The Urgent Intrapreneur Opportunity: An Introduction for Corporate Leaders

Established organizations need to introduce an entrepreneurial spirit in order to still attract and retain employees. Intrapreneurs are the answer.

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Empathy, Integrative Thinking and Innovation

Integrative thinking can be a useful tool to break out of echo chambers and challenge our beliefs. It can also help create solutions that transcend trade-offs and deliver "and" solutions instead of "either/or" compromises.

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Executing Internal Projects

Internal innovations drive 70% of the world's most transformative innovations. However, only a few employees feel their ideas matter. Overcome seven barriers with the IN-OVATE Framework and understand the context to manage environmental factors skillfully.

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Intrapreneurship in Action: BASF, Deutsche Bahn and BNP Paribas

Learn how BASF, Deutsche Bahn and BNP Paribas are driving innovation through intrapreneurship.

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Pros and Cons of Becoming an Innovation Consultant

Choosing between working in a large corporate organization or a small consultancy can be a difficult decision for innovators. This article explores the pros and cons of each.

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Questions & Answers with an Innovation Management Leader from Intel: Viki Almog-Ayzenberg

Intel implemented a decentralized approach to innovation across various business units, and their experience was shared in a recent webinar with Viki Almog-Ayzenberg.

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Innovation Methods: the What, Why and How

Innovation methods are important for achieving systematic and valuable innovation. This article provides insight on the most common methods and how to choose the right one for your organization.

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Innovation Teams within Organizations

Innovative teams are important for fostering creativity and finding new solutions. Here are tips for building and sustaining them in your organizational culture, including virtual collaboration strategies.

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The Venture Studio Business Model, Explained  | Corporate Lab

Venture studios are becoming popular in the business world, as they rapidly build and develop new companies. They use their resources and expertise to create startups, from identifying opportunities to scaling the business. They earn equity or payment for their services in return.

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Courageous Cultures: How To Build Teams Of Micro-Innovators, Problem Solvers And Customer Advocates

Courageous Cultures: How To Build Teams Of Micro-Innovators, Problem Solvers And Customer Advocates

A courageous culture encourages employees to share their ideas, yet many employees hold back. Leaders must navigate the narratives, create clarity, cultivate curiosity, and respond with regard to empower their team to contribute.

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How Advancing Their Lean Startup Practice Helps Intrapreneurs Bust Organizational Roadblocks

How Advancing Their Lean Startup Practice Helps Intrapreneurs Bust Organizational Roadblocks

Learn how to effectively manage innovation projects in a large organization by attending the Advanced Lean Startup workshop that focuses on experience and the practice of innovation.

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It Department Role In Innovation Plan

It Department Role In Innovation Plan

IT plays a critical role in driving innovation in organizations. By allowing IT professionals to lead the way, companies can witness innovative thinking across all levels.

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It’s More Fun To Be A Pirate In The Navy

It’s More Fun To Be A Pirate In The Navy

Innovation within large companies faces many hurdles, including resistance from leaders and a focus on exploiting current success. The book "Pirates in the Navy" explores how intrapreneurs can transform their companies to support innovation.

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Reverse Mentoring: A Lever for Digital Transformation Agorize Blog

Reverse Mentoring: A Lever for Digital Transformation Agorize Blog

Reverse mentoring is the solution for integrating digital natives into companies, helping older employees adapt to the digital age, and creating intergenerational relations.

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The Greenhouse Approach: Flourishing Organizations Through Intrapreneurship

The Greenhouse Approach: Flourishing Organizations Through Intrapreneurship

Chitra Anand's new book, The Greenhouse Approach: Cultivating Intrapreneurship in Companies and Organizations, challenges current thinking that inhibits true innovation by re-imagining corporations.

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Selfish Innovation

Selfish Innovation

New research in neuroscience has shown that a selfish approach in innovation workshops, appealing to the inherent self-expression of participants, may lead to more productive results.

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Ask Your Developer: How to Harness the Power of Software Developers and Win in the 21st Century

Ask Your Developer: How to Harness the Power of Software Developers and Win in the 21st Century

Ask your developer - The landscape has shifted from the classic build vs. buy question, to one of build vs. die. Companies have to get this right to survive. But how do they make this transition?

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Average Joe: Be the Silicon Valley Tech Genius

Average Joe: Be the Silicon Valley Tech Genius

Average Joe: Be the Silicon Valley Tech Genius - The book covers numerous tech entrepreneurial founders and software developers, and the exciting brands or products that they created.

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Everybody Wants to Rule the World: Surviving and Thriving in a World of Digital Giants

Everybody Wants to Rule the World: Surviving and Thriving in a World of Digital Giants

Everybody Wants to Rule the World - Ultimately, you will understand how the business world is changing and how to adapt now to stay relevant and in demand.

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Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Read this book to understand innovation and entrepreneurship as a purposeful and systematic discipline (Peter Drucker).

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