20 Corporate Intrapreneurship Programs
Most intrapreneurship programmes give people mentoring, time and a budget, then keep them on incremental ideas and stop at the MVP. Twenty programmes here are broken down on the four choices that decide which kind you are running.
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29 pages · PDF and online- Twenty corporate intrapreneurship programmes, compared like for like
- The four choices that decide a programme's ambition and its reach
- A read on where your own programme sits, and what it is quietly optimised for
Most intrapreneurship programmes are built to improve, not to invent.
The support is usually there. What is missing is the mandate: three in four programmes stay on incremental ideas, most are closed to anyone outside the company, and a quarter never take an idea past the MVP.
pursue incremental innovation; only one in five backs radical ideas
are open to internal employees only
stop at ideation and MVP, and never reach implementation
do offer the basics: mentorship, time, and infrastructure
Figures describe the twenty programmes analysed in this report.
The support is rarely what is missing. The mandate and the route to implementation are.
Twenty programmes, on the four choices that define them.
Each programme is broken down the same way, so you can place your own against them rather than read another list of names.
Know what your programme is allowed to attempt
- 1Incremental innovationImproving what the business already does
- 2Radical innovationIdeas that would change the business
Know how ideas arrive and how they align
- 3Open call for ideasAnyone, anything, any time
- 4Business challengesIdeas aimed at a stated problem
Know how far you carry an idea
- 5IdeationFinding and shaping the idea
- 6IncubationBuilding it into something real
- 7AccelerationGetting it to market
- 8ScaleMaking it part of the business
Know what you give, and who is invited
- 9Financial supportBudget an idea can actually move on
- 10Time allocationHours protected from the day job
- 11InfrastructureSpace, tools, and mentoring
- 12Participant profileEmployees only, or the outside world too
Built to place your own programme.
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