Eventyr: 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.