“We would have quit a long time ago if this was a normal company project,” he said and looked at me with pride. He was one of a group of intrapreneurs we supported through an intrapreneurs bootcamp for one of our clients. His team had picked quite a challenge to work on, a challenge that […]
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Entrepreneurs have become the heroes of current business lore, and many companies realize that they need more entrepreneurial spirit in their organizations and future talent pools. But not everyone is cut out to be an entrepreneur. It would be foolish to think that you can turn all of your employees into entrepreneurs. Most people are […]
March 1 marked the annual World Future Day. Organized by futurist organizations like the Millennium Project, the Association Of Professional Futurists, and the World Future Studies Federation, futurists from around the world participated in a twenty-four hour call following the various time zones to discuss latest insights into future dynamics. I had the pleasure and honor of co-hosting […]
“The most exciting breakthroughs of the 21st century will not occur because of technology, but because of an expanded concept of what it means to be human.” — John Naisbitt, futurist and author Much has been written about AI, and how its continuous advance into our lives seems inevitable: Andrew Ng, Google Brain and Coursera co-founder and Stanford […]
Businesses large and small have traditionally struggled with organizational transformation. This is not surprising. There are two major factors contributing to these struggles: Organizations have mostly focused on the mechanics of transformation instead of the meaning Organizations have neglected the deep personal impact transformation has on people’s lives and the significant emotional investment that is […]
In my last article I made the distinction between structural or procedural intrapreneurship and cultural intrapreneurship. Structural or procedural intrapreneurship is focused on the business or product that is the outcome of an intrapreneurship initiative, while cultural intrapreneurship focuses on using intrapreneurship experiences as a tool for long-term culture change toward the future of organizations. […]
The basic concept of intrapreneurship is simple: Intrapreneurship is the act of behaving like an entrepreneur while working within a large organization. Intrapreneurship means that individuals in your organization look to the future and develop and test new ways of serving your customers beyond your current business model. It starts with an individual and later […]
The Future of Healthcare
Here a recent presentation on the Future of Healthcare from a Brightidea Birds of a Feather event in Newport Beach, California.
What used to seem stable has become increasingly volatile. While we have more data than ever we are more uncertain about the future than ever. In a planetary context, the world has become overwhelmingly complex. Overall, we are less clear about things than ever. So how do you lead in times of Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity […]
Why are some companies struggling with innovation while other thrive in an environment of rapid change and complex uncertainty? In our research and experience we found that — beyond clear purpose — organizational innovation capacity largely depends on cultural competencies and individual capacities. I have written before about frameworks for innovation and how ultimately Innovation starts with “i”: with the individual […]