Friday, January 22, 2010

Intrapreneurship: An interesting Trend


This is just a quick post about this attractive alternative to combine rigid, well-known structures with creative and innovative entrepreneurs. The idea is that big corporation have some people that work as entrepreneurs for them but they do not have to worry about expenses that does not have to do with the core of their business (administrative, legal, accountant, etc.) because the big company can deal with that plus the advantage of economies of scale.

In my next post, I will go a little bit deeper about this idea, but I believe that it is worth thinking about it as a possible alternative to give rigid corporations a doses of flexibility in order to survive (and be sustainable, ideally) in an ever changing environment.
I just want to leave you with the following extract:
September 30, 1985, interview with Stephen Jobs in Newsweek: "The Macintosh team was what is commonly known as intrapreneurship-only a few years before the term was coined - a group of people going in essence back to the garage, but in a large company".
I will enlarge this idea, shortly. Have a nice weekend!

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