Innovate or Die!

1. Innovate or Die!
Enterprise Edition
Mr. Kalle Tiihonen, Intrapreneur
December 13, 2013

2. Today’s Menu for Innovators
1. IBM
2. Mr. Kalle Tiihonen
3. Why great companies die?
4. Solutions, please!
5. 3 + 1 Emerging Trends
6. Lean Startup Method
7. Internal Startup at IBM
8. Questions, Discussion
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3. IBM
12 research labs, 6 continents. 435 000 employees,
5 Nobel prize winners.
100 years of innovation. We don’t sell laptops
anymore.
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4. Mr. Kalle Tiihonen
- Started programming at age 11
- Loves coffee and green tea
- Interested in entrepreneurship, intrapreneurship & disruptive innovations
- Studied design, business & technology at Aalto University
- Joined IBM about 3 years ago
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5. Why great companies die?
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6. ”It is not the strongest of the species that
survives, nor the most intelligent that
survives. It is the one that is the most
adaptable to change.”
-Charles Darwin
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7. Solutions, please!
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8. 3 + 1 Emerging Trends
* http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=intrapreneur%2C%20growth%20hacking%2C%20hackathon&cmpt=q
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9. 3 + 1 Emerging Trends: Intrapreneurship
“Intrapreneur is a person within a large corporation who
takes direct responsibility for turning an idea into a
profitable finished product through assertive risk-taking
and innovation.“
“A person who has an entrepreneur skill set but works
within an organization, enterprise or venture.”
- Wikipedia
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10. 1. Come to work each day willing to be
fired
2. Circumvent any orders aimed at
stopping your dream
3. Do any job needed to make your
project work, regardless of your job
description
4. Find people to help you
5. Follow your intuition about the people
you choose, and work only with the
best
6. Work underground as long as you
can – publicity triggers the
corporate immune system
7. Never bet on a race unless you are
running in it
8. Remember, it is easier to ask for
forgiveness than for permission
9. Be true to your goals, but be realistic
about the ways to achieve them
10. Honor your sponsors
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12. “The Macintosh team was
what is commonly known as
intrapreneurship; only a few
years before the term was
coined - a group of people
going, in essence, back to the
garage, but in a large
company.“
Steve Jobs, Newsweek 1985
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13. “I wanted to prove that even if
company employees and
executives said no, regular
employees could build a
venture of this scale with
superb technology, superb
concepts, and superb
colleagues.”
Ken Kutaragi, Sony
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14. 3 + 1 Emerging Trends: Growth Hacking
* http://www.quicksprout.com/the-definitive-guide-to-growth-hacking/
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15. 3 + 1 Emerging Trends: Hackathons
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16. 3 + 1 Emerging Trends: Crowdfunding
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* http://management.fortune.cnn.com/2013/12/04/ibm-ideas-crowdfunding/
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17. Lean Startup Method
* http://thenextweb.com/entrepreneur/2013/08/06/do-lean-startup-principles-have-a-place-in-the-enterprise/
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* http://blogs.hbr.org/2013/07/how-to-innovate-faster/
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20. Internal Startup – IBM Kasvuhuone
1. Fast prototyping
2. New technologies
3. Industry trends
Idea
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Prototype
Innovation
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22. Apps4Finland – Doing good with open data
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”[...] The winner of the Idea category was Kalle Tiihonen for his idea of
having the Helsinki energy company open up an API so homeowners can
track their energy usage. […]”
* http://www.arcticstartup.com/2012/12/05/apps4finland-winners-take-advantage-of-finlands-open-data
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24. Thank You!
Questions?
Mr. Kalle Tiihonen, Intrapreneur
Twitter: @ktiihonen
kalle.tiihonen@fi.ibm.com
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