The Intrapreneur’s Journey

An essential guide that offers in-depth analysis on how intrapreneurship powers some of the world’s leading innovative businesses. When they maximise the entrepreneurial potential of employees and enable them to think and behave like start-ups, businesses see the continuous delivery of innovative products, services and processes.

An essential business guide on how to develop an organization's innovation culture and internal entrepreneurs (intrapreneurs)

The Intrapreneur’s Journey: Empowering Employees to Drive Growth is an essential guide on effectively creating and implementing a sustainable culture of innovation and entrepreneurship within organizations. The book is based on the insight that established organizations see continuous delivery of innovative products, services and processes when they enable teams of entrepreneurial employees to think and behave like start-ups.

Three qualities make this book unique. First, it explores the theory and practice of intrapreneurship and innovation with a particular, but not exclusive focus on key issues in African contexts. Second, it includes a large, diverse set of instructive examples and case studies of intrapreneurship and innovation in organizations in Africa. And third, it features a useful toolkit: the Intrapreneurship Empowerment Model, a simple yet complete implementation framework. The book includes key resources of practical, real-world tools and assets used by some of the world’s most intrapreneurial and innovative organizations.

The Intrapreneur’s Journey adds value for both practitioners and scholars of intrapreneurship and innovation in Africa and other parts of the world.

Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgements

Introduction: The Intrapreneurship Empowerment Model
Chapter 1: Time and Freedom
Chapter 2: A Dedicated Innovation Team
Chapter 3: Design Thinking
Chapter 4: Open Collaboration
Chapter 5: Lean Experimentation
Chapter 6: Align for Yes
Chapter 7: Integrated Intrapreneurship
Conclusion: Sustaining Success
Appendices:
A. The Intrapreneurship Empowerment Model (for Introduction)
B. Time and Freedom Key Resources (for Chapter 1)
C. A Dedicated Innovation Team Key Resources (for Chapter 2)
D. Design Thinking Key Resources (for Chapter 3)
E. Open Collaboration Key Resources (for Chapter 4)
F. Lean Experimentation Key Resources (for Chapter 5)
G. Align for Yes Key Resources (for Chapter 6)
Dramatis Personae

Notes

References

Authors

Index