SLIM is Spark's approach to lean intrapreneurship. Intrapreneurship can be a huge undertaking - it affects an entire organization and, if done wrong, can be devastating. Check the presentation and feel free to contact us if you have any questions.
2. Mapping Your Intrapreneur Ecosystem
“el intraemprendimiento es una inversión organizacional para
desarrollar un acercamiento estructurado de
mejoramiento, innovación, e invención para lograr algo nuevo e
inspirador, sea para retorno social, financiero, o mixto”
“intrapreneurship is an organizational investment into developing
a structured approach to using improvement, innovation and
invention to achieve something new and inspirational whether this
is for social or financial returns or both”
Neil Fogarty
“Boost! Enabling Intrapreneurs”
3. Mapping Your Intrapreneur Ecosystem
“intrapreneurship is an organizational investment into
developing a structured approach to using
improvement, innovation and invention to achieve
something new and inspirational whether this is for
social or financial returns or both”
5. Mapping Your Intrapreneur Ecosystem
Corporate – with no clear strategy, we lack an
understanding of objectives and values – and so any
organizational transformation will FAIL without this
clear direction.
Innovate – develop an open innovation approach
that is aligned to personal values (PVA) as well as
corporate and community needs
Incubate – nurture and grow the idea – encourage
the intrapreneur adventure
Accelerate – create internal momentum; develop
the intrapreneur virus and go external
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7. Mapping Your Intrapreneur Ecosystem
Financial – implementing a full intrapreneur
ecosystem from scratch is expensive and does not
have a guarantee for sustainability
Operational – there will be a call to review all
processes, administration and bureaucracy – to
challenge their relevance / usefulness – and to
actively dismantle them
Reputational – a commitment to customer
excellence, innovation, (useful) improvement and
social impact will improve your reputation
immeasurably
Organizational – you will see a new world –
engaged employees striving to be excellent for your
organization
Let’s be honest here, intrapreneurship is about business common sense – let’s not pretend that it is mystical and mysterious – successful organizations like 3M, HP, Lockheed Martin, IBM and Google have been intrapreneurial from their very beginning – it is hard-coded into their DNA. Spark helps organizations to rediscover their entrepreneurial roots and align them with their contemporary corporate objectives and values.
This quote is taken from Neil Fogarty – a thought leader in intrapreneurship.
The focus here is: for an organization to be intrapreneurial, there has to be an investment (financial, time, mindset, attitude) from the leaders, managers AND staff – if one area does not inherently believe and support this, then it will FAIL. As intrapreneurship is cultural, you do not necessarily apply a methodology or process; it is more about emotional and collaborative intelligence. Intrapreneurship is about “improve, innovate, invent, monetize”. When we consider the impact of the Apple iPhone on the world, we see an inspirational product that changes the way we fundamentally work. In that instance, the iPhone offered both a financial return but also had enormous social impact.
This is the first model of an entrepreneur ecosystem – a 40-part approach that develops leaders, managers and staff through emotional intelligence, collaborative intelligence, commercialized mindset and the entrepreneurial spirit of the start-up. Spark has a 400+ question diagnostic toolkit that enables an organization to map their current ecosystem; determine gaps; develop a roadmap to success.
The four key stages of the intrapreneur adventure are corporate; innovate; incubate; accelerate. All parts are interdependent – the success or failure of any part affects the overall success of the adventure. It is essential that there are stakeholders with the authority and influence to guide / protect the intrapreneur as there is a change to organizational design, recruitment, performance management, administration, finance, etc. Do you have the policies and procedures (structure) that enables such freedom? Can your organization handle the duality of intrapreneurship?
Do you know your organizational and individual DNA?
Intrapreneurship has many benefits: raised employee engagement; focused restructuring; removal of non-relevant processes and restrictions; development of internal and external communities; increased revenue; greater profitability (for the public sector or not-for-profit, this gives up more funds to reinvest into front-line services); customer retention; team culture; conversion of cost centers to profit centers… and so on. But who has time to implement such a large solution in one quick-hit?
Spark delivers a Lean Intrapreneurship model – taking the organization a team at a time into the new world. The model is based on mentor-led workshops, facilitated peer learning, assignments & projects – with the aim to bring new ideas to launch within 14 weeks. By working this way, the organization ‘goes viral’ – spreading the intrapreneur message at an appropriate speed to reduce resistance to change.
The stages of the Spark Lean Intrapreneurship Model (SLIM) introduces concepts of reflective thinking, personal value alignment, willingness to fail, and delivering something inspirational to the (internal and / or external) community.
There are many keys to the success of an intrapreneurship program and one of the largest pieces is the collaborative intelligence of your organization. Spark runs a 1-day workshop on this, helping organizations to map their current CQ and to identify ways to build it up. If your organization lacks CQ then it probably lacks revenue!
Spark delivers work on four continents – we have a network of multi-language professionals and we welcome any and all opportunities to speak to you about intrapreneurship.