EIS overview

Intrapreneurs are innovative employees who behave like entrepreneurs inside existing companies. Unfortunately, many intrapreneurs are hidden because they are constrained by organizational systems, culture; etc. in existing firms. The seminar will transform executives into corporate entrepreneurs, who are capable to create a cultivating organizational culture, which identifies and enables intrapreneurs to implement innovative projects inside large & medium-sized firms. It will upskill top, middle and operational managers with insights, practical strategic tools and systems to create an intrapreneurial organization.

Key objectives of EIS

1. Gain insights on how to create and implement intrapreneurship strategy, mechanisms and systems within the context of your firms’ culture and processes;
   
   
2. Demonstrate how to identify and unlock hidden potential of intrapreneurs trapped inside your organizations;
   
   
3. Learn how to setup company-specific innovative projects, using the tools and frameworks taught in the seminar; and
   
   
4. Demonstrates on how to develop intrapreneurship work environment for your organization.
   
   

Most executives’ response to intrapreneurs

Quotes

Richard Branson, Virgin Group: “….intrapreneur. An employee who is given financial support and autonomy to create new products, services and systems for the benefit of the company, “……Virgin could never have grown into the group of more than 200 companies it is now, were it not for a steady stream of intrapreneurs who looked for and developed opportunities, often leading efforts that went against the grain.”

Willem Roos, OUTsurance: “Be entrepreneurial early on in your career. This does not always mean that you need to start a new business on your own. Do something new and innovative in your current job. If the culture of your current employer does not allow that, resign and find a company that will”.

Mode of attendance: Evenings OR day mode. Physical venue OR Online.

Who should attend: CEOs’, CFOs’, MDs’, directors and managers of large and medium-sized firms, across industries.

Price: On request.

EIW overview

Bringing a team of employees (any group of 3–8 who represent multiple functional areas i.e. operations, accounting, marketing, IT, etc.) from the same firm to the Employees Intrapreneurship Workshops (EIW) offers a unique opportunity to practically work on a company-specific innovation project, using the insights, tools and frameworks from the workshop. Rather than a theoretical training seminar, the EIW is a practical orientated workshop, which transforms an ordinary team of employees into an intrapreneurial-team. The outcomes of the intrapreneurial-team varies from project to project, depending on the employees’ innovative ideas. It can produce innovative systems, innovative products or services, which can be hosted inside a newly created business division or small-subsidiary business to expand an existing firms’ offerings, revenues and generate job-creation.

Process of EIW

Key objectives of EIW

1. Coach a group of employees on how to ideate, develop and pitch a company-specific innovative project(s), using the tools and frameworks taught in the workshop;
   
   
2. Supervise a group of employees on how to conduct innovation-project experimentations as means to test a proof of concept with the potential clients;
   
   
3. Supervise a group of employees on how to execute innovative product(s), services and administrative system(s) in the context of their organizations culture and processes;
   
   
4. Advise on how to manage and lead a new small-business venture inside an existing organization.
   
   

Process of EIW

Mode of attendance: Evenings OR day mode. Physical venue OR Online.

Who should attend: Any group of employees between 3-8 members representing multiple titles across functional areas i.e. accounting; marketing, operations, IT, etc.

Price: On request.

EIT overview

Although almost everyone is familiar with the term entrepreneurs, the same cannot be said for the term intrapreneurs. Intrapreneurs are employees who behave like entrepreneurs inside existing companies. Employees who will attend intrapreneurship seminar stand a great chance of learning how to think, work, behave, develop and implement innovative ideas like intrapreneurs inside established firms. In particular, ordinary employees will be equipped on how intrapreneurs ideate; refine and develop innovative ideas inside established companies, across industries.

Key objectives of NEIS

1. Demonstrate how intrapreneurs think, work and develop innovative ideas inside existing companies;
   
   
2. Learn how to unlock your hidden intrapreneurial potential and implement company-specific innovative projects, using the tools taught in the seminar;
   
   
3. Demonstrate how to pitch and drive company-specific innovative projects, in the context of your organizations’ culture and processes; and
   
   
4. Gain insights on how intrapreneurs optimize existing organizational systems of their employers firms.
   
   

Examples of intrapreneurs

Quotes

Apple, Steve Jobs: “Macintosh team “was what is commonly known as intrapreneurship. A group of people going, in essence, back to the garage, but in a large company”.

Discovery Group, Themba Baloyi: “For his intrapreneurial work on Discovery Insure, [inside Discovery Group] Themba was awarded the 2018 All Africa Business Leadership Entrepreneur of the Year Award”….. “I recall that in 2008, at a moment when everything had been exhausted and I was about to give up on the idea [Discovery Insure], there was this thought that just hit me….if I walk away now, there are many young people who could be having the same dream or same vision to realise something big/massive and change society, who would probably never do it because they haven’t seen anyone try it. It was in that moment that it stopped being about me and about my vision, but it became a vision for so many young people who are coming behind us. It was that moment that I realised I’m going to push on and I’m going to make this thing happen”.

Mode of attendance: Evenings OR day mode.

Who should attend: Any employee wishing to become intrapreneurs, from medium-sized & large firms across industries.

Price: On request.

What constrains intrapreneurs?

• Job-descriptions, organizational procedures, culture; etc. “bureaucracy”


• Milking an existing Cow – “lack of being intrapreneurial”


• Not knowing how to “identify” intrapreneurs amongst employees


• Lack of a “process” to implement intrapreneurial-ideas

We conduct an in-depth corporate diagnosis to identify a set of procedures, systems; cultures, etc., which inhibits and constrains potential intrapreneurs trapped within your company. This service begins with anonymous data collection from managers and ordinary employees using CEIA instrument. The CEIA is a comprehensive diagnosis instrument to identify a set of organizational systems; culture; etc., inhibiting and constraining intrapreneurship capabilities in your company. The service ends with a report that tells us about the real-status of intrapraneurial-fitness of your firm. The report helps us to engage your firm on how to develop a tailor-made practice-driven solution.

Who should participant? All employees at all levels