Overview
Offers a recipe for the creation of a corporate new idea incubation program, with tools to help with program operation
Discuss how to use these tools and techniques to drive faster, data-driven business decisions outside the context of new product/idea innovation
Contains a wealth of lessons learned along the way, including things that worked, things that did not work, and how the same lean principles that are applied to each incubating business were/are applied to the creation and evolution of the program itself
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About this book
Utilize this comprehensive guide in your organization to create a corporate incubator that protects innovative ideas from oppressive corporate processes and culture and gives those ideas the resources and environment they need to grow and have the best possible chance to thrive.
Innovation is hard. Ironically, innovation in a large enterprise can be even more difficult. Policies designed for mature businesses often crush emerging businesses along with the entrepreneurial spirit of the innovators. Procedures can make it difficult, even impossible, for innovative employees to get their ideas funded, or even seen. As a result, even companies with their roots in innovation can find themselves unable to innovate, with a devastating impact on employee morale and often resulting in the exodus of the most creative employees.
In Lean Intrapreneurship the authors leverage decades of personal experience innovating in large enterprises to explore the root causes of failure to innovate in established organizations, and offer a solution to the innovator’s dilemma. The book includes a recipe for creating a repeatable program for innovating in large organizations, including tools, tips, and strategies developed by the authors as they created an innovative incubation program for a multi-billion-dollar technology company. It also offers a wealth of information to help aspiring intrapreneurs and entrepreneurs bring their ideas to life.
What You’ll Learn
- Discover the most common reasons that innovation fails in established organizations
- Explore techniques to make innovative ideas a success
- Follow a recipe to create a program to enable innovation across your company
- Understand the power of transparency inside and outside an incubator
- Develop employees and foster a culture of innovation across your company
Who This Book Is For
Anyone with an innovative idea who wants to make it real but does not know where to begin; anyone struggling to innovate inside an established company; anyone who wishes to make their existing company more lean, agile, and efficient; anyone who wishes to start a program to incubate new, innovative ideas inside an established company
Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Howard Abrams is Distinguished Engineer and Senior Vice President at CA Technologies. Working at CA since 2002 has given him the opportunity to take on several diverse technical and leadership roles—from software architecture to user experience. In his current role, he is responsible for CA’s internal incubator, CA Accelerator, where incubations function like lean startups and internal innovators receive the support and funding they need to develop and test new products. Prior to joining CA, he held technical positions in organizations, including Muse Corporation, US Navy, Paradigm Simulation, MITRE Corporation, and Jeppesen Sanderson. He has been granted nine patents and has several additional pending. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from the Naval Postgraduate School as well as a BSc in Aerospace Engineering from Embry-Riddle University. Although he began coding at age seven in the Chicago, Illinois suburbs, he now enjoys spending his free time with his wife and two children in the San Francisco Bay Area in California.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Lean Entrepreneurship
Book Subtitle: Innovation in the Modern Enterprise
Authors: George Watt, Howard Abrams
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-3942-1
Publisher: Apress Berkeley, CA
eBook Packages: Business and Management, Business and Management (R0), Apress Access Books
Copyright Information: CA 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4842-3941-4Published: 01 November 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4842-3942-1Published: 31 October 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 227
Number of Illustrations: 36 b/w illustrations
Topics: Project Management, Software Engineering, Entrepreneurship