Intrapreneurship
Intrapreneurism is working from within; "internalising the mission of an organization, absorbing your customer's problem, and driving a creative solution that matters."
- Organisations rely on intrapreneurism and always have.
- No one tells you to do it but they appreciate the results.
- Create an energy and feeling that it will happen and it will.
- When you hear people articulate the mission then momentum has caught on.
- Sell, sell, sell.
Her advice was to show that you are competent and deliver so that people trust you. Do this above all. She ran through a further series of lessons:
Lesson 1: Understand the organisational landscape and politics.
Lesson 2: You can make something GREAT happen.
Lesson 3: Don't assume anything... what appears obvious may not be.
Lesson 4: Make your stakeholders look good.
Lesson 5: Don't be intimidated... and don't give up.
Lesson 6: Bigger effects require teams... but with bigger results.
Lesson 7: Be fearless and keep the faith.
Nina gave a really interesting talk about her work at HP developing a way to use mms camera
phone pictures to help girls select the right shades of make-up. I was
fascinated to learn about image processing and colour correction and
calibration on camera phones for this project, and the work -arounds
that they created to get this to work as a fully functioning prototype.
In her case, being a girl helped her to innovate and push for a project that the male engineers just did not understand.
It was a lovely, interesting, relevant and stimulating talk with which to end my time at GHC.
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Johanna Hunt
Official GHC 2007 Blogger
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