Our friend and colleague Mike Collins posted an excellent, concise description of the Kellogg Innovation Network and how it fosters mutual learning.
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Rob and Mike were interviewed by InnovationExcellence.com about their current research. “INets,” as we call them, build innovation capabilities and foster action through mutual learning and support. They are characterized by a sense of community built around people with common interests but diverse perspectives and objectives.
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In today’s posting on Benzinga.com, we describe how Cisco leveraged the entrepreneurs within its midst from acquired companies to supercharge their efforts to create significant new buinesses, using the Producer Model of Corporate Entrepreneurship.
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In this video roundtable, sponsored by DeVry University’s Keller Graduate School of Management, Rob Wolcott joins Ken Atwater (GE Healthcare IT Solutions), to share insights on corporate entreprenership and innovation project management, covering issues of leadership, organization, personnel and culture.
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In our post at Fast Company this week, we explain the Opportunist Model of Corporate Entrepreneurship and what you should do if you’re trying to build a new business in an environment without designated organizational ownership or resources. In general, the Opportunist Model works well only in trusting corporate cultures that are open to experimentation and have multiple [...]
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The Kellogg School of Management and the Kellogg Innovation Network (KIN) have been pivotal to our work in corporate entrepreneurship and innovation. In fact, we originally uncovered the demand for better solutions to new business creation within established firms from our KIN members, innovation executives at large global companies.
We’re quite pleased to report that the [...]
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In our post yesterday at Fast Company, we describe guiding principles for building a robust network, which is one of the most important factors to succeeding as an innovator or entrepreneur, inside or outside a large corporation:
Simple rules rule
Determine your objectives
Build diversity into your group
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How can corporate entrepreneurs be sure whether they are moving in the right direction in the early stages? In our post on Fast Company today, we highlight three major signposts of progress toward building new businesses.
CEO and Senior Management Commitment is Solid.
Your Energies are Focused.
You’re Already Planning for Transition and Scaling.
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Fostering corporate entrepreneurship means a new focus on attracting and retaining people with the determination and skill to build bridges to future growth. Assuming your company is open to the possibility of entrepreneurial growth, do you have what it takes to be a corporate entrepreneur? This posting at Fast Company describes five characteristics of the species [...]
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