Chalk Talk: How Buildings Learn
A chalk talk on Stewart Brand’s model for how six layers in a building change at different rates from his book “How Buildings Learn.”
Intrapreneur
Angel Rampy on Influence Skills for Technical People
What skills do you need to influence the way other people think? Angel Rampy, business coach at Success Through Learning, covers the different levels from which we influence moving us from “telling” to “collaborating”. She shares tips for strengthen our ability to influence others. Here are a couple of interesting video snippets from her …
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Three Insights from Dr. Edward Baker’s “Scoring a Whole in One”
This post explores three insights from Dr. Edward Baker’s “Scoring a Whole in One.” First, individuals must understand the enterprise context they operate in; second, leaders must serve and connect; and third, practice is necessary for improvement but does not lead to perfection.
Etienne Garbugli on Opportunities: Finding New Products
Etienne Garbugli looks at finding product opportunities, and how entrepreneurs deliver value and gain a foothold inside businesses.
Markers That Startups Can Use to Identify Early Adopters
Sean Murphy recently explained to a client his perspective on change agents inside a business and the signals that he looks for to identify early adopters.
Start with Mindset with Ash Maurya
Ash Maurya makes the case that entrepreneurs must start with mindset to drive the skill development that will create traction and success.
Scale by Understanding Your Value Stream: Slides and Video Recap
Martha Ryan and Terry Frazier offered a briefing on how to “Scale by Understanding Your Value Stream” at the Lean Culture Meetup on Feb-25-2021. Here is a recap of the event that includes slides and video.
Cultivate Formal Controls, Informal Collaboration, and Value Creation Networks
A simple view of organization structure is management and workers. The reality is three structures: formal controls, informal collaboration, and value creation networks.
Intrapreneur Mindset and Key Skills
An intrapreneur is an employee who adopts the mindset of an entrepreneur to foster innovation inside of a larger firm. This blog post outlines key skills that an intrapreneur must master to identify useful inventions and get them adopted inside a firm to bring new value to customers.
Mapping Capability Development to New Product Design and Delivery
This is a first pass at development dependency “pinwheel” model for intrapreneurs fostering new capability development and executives adjusting a product roadmap for development risk.
Jeff Allison: How To Blend New Capability and New Product Development
Jeff Allison offers a June-1-2017 briefing on how to blend new capability development and new product development. Innovation requires experimentation that allows for the possibility of failure but the whole point of creating a program commitment process is to avoid failure. Jeff Allison: How To Blend New Capability and New Product Development Jeff Allison has …
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Innovation Inside an Organization Requires Balancing Priorities
It always seems simpler to be able to start with a blank slate, and even better to be given just one project so that you can focus, but the reality is that innovation inside an organization requires balancing priorities.
Interview With Shane Reiser On Your Ideas Are Terrible
I ran into Shane Reiser (@ShaneReiser) at the Intrapreneur Conference in Silicon Valley and was impressed by his new startup (Your Ideas are Terrible) with cofounder Carie Davis to bring lean thinking to corporate innovation. What follows is a Q&A we conducted over email with hyperlinks added for context.
Jeff Allison joins SKMurphy Team to Drive Intrapreneur Focus for 2017
We are excited to announce that Jeff Allison will be collaborating with us on a new set initiatives for intrapreneurs in 2017, including a new Mastermind group specifically for intrapreneurs and change agents.