Intrapreneurship is a relatively recent concept that focuses on employees of a company that have many of the attributes of entrepreneurs. An intrapreneur is someone within a company that takes risks in an effort to solve a given problem.
Drive Entrepreneurial Awareness: Identify Personal Traits
Think Differently — Do you know people who truly think outside the box?
See Opportunities — "Entrepreneurs, in the purest sense, are those who identify a need — any need — and fill it."
Have Courage — When they see opportunities, entrepreneurs act, demonstrating courage and conviction by doggedly pursuing their beliefs, despite detractors and naysayers.
Build Capability: Grow Corporate Innovation Skills
Marshaling Scarce Resources — Budding intrapreneurs achieve big things by influencing, rallying and gaining the support of people across organizational boundaries and reporting structures.
Dealing with Uncertainty — Aspiring intrapreneurs would be asked to take on a problem that is not well-understood in a new market consisting of customers who don't yet know what they want or need. While many people would be daunted, true intrapreneurs will have a predilection and a passion for solving for uncertainty.
Listening Intently to Customers — Validating problems and testing customer hypotheses cannot be done in a vacuum.
Achieve Excellence: Transform People Into Intrapreneurs
Transforming entrepreneurial people into true intrapreneurs rarely takes place in isolation. To generate a continuous pipeline of intrapreneurs, you need to strike a balance between empowering people and putting in place the structure and systems that support innovation such as
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