Entrepreneurs Inside: Accelerating Business Growth With Corporate Entrepreneurs - Softcover

Foley, Susan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1425751571 ISBN 13: 9781425751579

Publisher: Authorhouse, 2007

Synopsis

Entrepreneurs Inside: Accelerating Business Growth with Corporate Entrepreneurs looks at innovation through the eyes of the individuals leading these initiatives - corporate entrepreneurs. Corporate entrepreneurs (intrapreneurs) are individuals inside of existing organizations that build new businesses, products, services or processes that create value and generate new revenue growth.

Building a new business inside an existing organization is a daunting task. It takes a unique combination of competencies to lead these initiatives. The book describes the competencies of successful corporate entrepreneurs and entrepreneurial leaders. It also reveals the obstacles and hidden barriers these executives encountered as they created the entrepreneurial culture necessary for success. Most valuably the book offers a practical look at corporate entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial leadership, innovation, and execution.

The book is based on research conducted with a group of experienced corporate entrepreneurs across a diverse set of industries. They were senior executives, many who reported into the CEO and were responsible for building million and billion dollar businesses. They provided a deeper and richer understanding of what it means to be a successful corporate entrepreneur or entrepreneurial leader inside of an existing organization.

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About the Author

Susan Foley is the founder of Corporate Entrepreneurs LLC a management consulting firm focused on Corporate Entrepreneurship, Entrepreneurial Leadership and Innovation Growth. Susan helps organizations identify and develop their internal entrepreneurs. Then works with them to build the entrepreneurial infrastructure needed to support innovation, accelerating the speed of growth. As an experienced corporate entrepreneur Susan understands the challenges of building corporate entrepreneurship inside of an established organization. She has spent the last twenty five years helping organizations develop new growth businesses that have generated millions. Susan is a professional speaker, consultant and author of the book Acceleration: Changing the Speed of Growth. She teaches Corporate Entrepreneurship in the Executive Education program at Babson College and is a Fellow at the Center for Innovation and Change Leadership at Suffolk University.

From the Back Cover

Entrepreneurs Inside: Accelerating Business Growth with Corporate Entrepreneurs provides the framework to support innovation and business growth.

• Setting the stage for business growth
• Co-existing with the core business
• Managing complexity, unpredictability and risk
• Dealing effectively with ambiguity and the unknown
• Thriving in a world of contrast
• Swimming up stream against an entrenched culture
• Developing Innovation as a core competency
• Selecting ideas with value
• Finding the right balance of innovation and risk
  
• Leading the way with experimentation
• Adapting to the rapid pace of change
• Executing with precision

Read Entrepreneurs Inside: Build the entrepreneurial mindset and infrastructure for growth.

Edition details

• Publisher: Authorhouse
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1425751571
• ISBN 13: 9781425751579
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 259