Saturday, November 22, 2014

Intrapreneurship - Innovative Leadership within a company




Intrapreneurship
Changing the world from within, making an impact and creating innovation within large business organisations is within our reach

Intrapreneurship is the act of behaving like an entrepreneur while working within a large organization. Many leaders within companies want to make a difference and they do, and are truly our new intrapreneurs making an impact.


I was surprised at how few business people had actually heard of the term intrapreneurship and despite the term being used from as early as 1978, and gaining popularity into dictionaries by 1992, it has only really started to become a popular term in 2014. The first Intrapreneurship Conference in the world is still to be held on 10 Dec 2014 and shares that Intrapreneurship is the most powerful engine for growth. With innovation being priority #1, how are you implementing and leveraging innovation from within? And Forbes.com shares how we need Intrapreneurship if we are to succeed our businesses in the modern world and Entrepreneur.com shares why Intrapraneurship is so critical.



Richard Branson's website League of Intrapreneurs shares that "The League of Intrapreneurs is a global movement of corporate change-makers working to transform business from the inside out." They talk about being a cubicle warrior, and a warrior is someone who shows up for battle, who makes a difference and who really does change the world.


There is an amazing uTube clip by Gib Bulloch - Be the Change You Want to See in Your Company shares on Tedx how a small change can make a huge impact in companies and into Social Entrepreneurship, and how being a value creator is the difference that makes the difference. My previous blog article on Betrapreneurship also captures the essence of being a change agent through disruptive innovation. Ghandi shared that you need to "Be the change you want to see in the world"
And so in conclusion the modern world needs Entrepreneurs, it needs Intrapreneurs, and it needs Betrapreneurs. How will you show up in 2015 and further into the future? What impact will you have on the world? What difference will you make? And are you truly living the change you want to see in your business?




Thursday, November 20, 2014

Betrapreneurship - Improving things through taking risks and profit with disruptive innovation





Betrapreneurship .... Improving things through taking risks and profit with disruptive innovation
The word "Betra" means to improve or to better and "preneur" means one who takes.
Entrepreneurship is one who takes risks and takes profits
Intrapreneurship is one who innovatively takes risks and profits within large organisations

Betrapreneurship is thus the process driven by a person who improves things through taking risks and profits with disruptive innovation. They are the innovators, thought leaders and drivers in the modern world and are the trend leaders who makes things happen. There appears to not be much different between the entrepreneur and the betrapreneur, yet if we look at the attached article we see that it about disruptive innovation, world trend leadership (both in thought and practical application) and professional future crafting and shaping.

 



Talk about changing the world through disruptive innovation, this is what the betrapreneur does and we have seen the likes of Mark Shuttleworth, Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg and many more already fit this mold, and so this wonderful innovative process is touching our world and challenges us to step up and be a part of disruptive technology, business and trends ... Not for the sake of disruption but because logically, and instinctively this is what best serves us ....

http://global-influences.com/scientific/emergent-technologies/kjaer-global-trends-2015/